Wednesday, April 30, 2025

HELU's Wall-to-Wall and Coast-to-Coast Report – April 2025 (Higher Ed Labor United)

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  April 2025 HELU Chair’s Message – May Day Strong From Levin Kim, HELU Chair Over the first 100 days of the Trump Administration, higher ed...

The Role of U.S. Higher Education in Mass Surveillance: A Cornerstone of Authoritarianism and Fascism

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In the digital age, surveillance has become a pervasive aspect of daily life. It reaches far beyond the government’s watchful eye; it infilt...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Department of Veterans Affairs Delays Answering Questions on GI Bill Complaints

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Trends and Challenges in Higher Education Non-Exempt Staff Workforce: Insights from CUPA-HR's April 2025 Report

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The landscape of higher education staffing is undergoing significant transformations, as highlighted in the College and University Professio...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Maximus AidVantage

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[Image of AidVantage operations in Greenville, Texas. Note the barbed wire fence.] The recent decision to have the Small Business Administra...

International Students Increasingly Wary of Study in US

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Since Donald Trump returned to the U.S. presidency in January 2025, international perceptions of American higher education have shifted dram...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

"America, América": Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis (Democracy Now!)

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We spend the hour with acclaimed historian Greg Grandin discussing his new book, America, América: A New History of the New World, which spa...

Trump is gutting what made American science great (Fareed Zakaria, CNN)

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A New Era of Accountability: The Case for Taxing Universities with Legacy Admissions.

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As debates around the fairness of college admissions continue to dominate headlines, a growing number of voices are calling for a fundamenta...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Trump Versus Academia, April 25, 2025 (Bryan Alexander)

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Here's my latest Trump and academia vlog report. If you’re new to this series, these videos are where I summarize what the Trump admin...

DOD continues to shield bad actor schools that prey upon military servicemembers

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For more than seven years, we have been waiting to obtain information from the US Department of Defense (DOD) about schools that prey upon ...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Trump Admin announces it will throw borrowers into mandatory collections. (Student Borrower Protection Center)

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The Trump Administration unleashed several attacks on students, student loan borrowers, and their families this week. On Wednesday, Presiden...