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  • PrincetonPolitics

    Elite colleges’ new affirmative action: record numbers of low-income students enrolling

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • National Guard patrol the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Politics

    Trump administration halts all asylum decisions and pauses issuing visas for people with Afghan passports

    By Cedar Attanasio, Collin Binkley, and others
  • Linda McMahonPolitics

    States stunned as Trump begins dismantling Department of Education

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a press briefing at the White House on Thursday.Politics

    Trump says dismantling the Department of Education will fix America’s lagging academics, but opponents warn it will multiply bureaucracy

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • People hold up signs during the Harvard Students for Freedom rally in support of international students at the Harvard University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 27, 2025.North America

    Despite everything Trump has done on immigration, U.S. colleges see just a 1% decrease in foreign students this fall

    By Collin Binkley, Makiya Seminera, and others
  • Donald TrumpLaw

    Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Pro-Palestinian supporters continue their encampment protest on Vanderbilt University campus Friday, May 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)Politics

    The White House has faced a flurry of rejections after inviting 9 universities to be the first signatories of its higher-ed compact

    By Collin Binkley, Jonathan Mattise, and others
  • collegeSuccess

    Does college offer a return on investment? ‘It’s front of mind for universities today in a way that it was not necessarily 15, 20 years ago’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Small business owner placing open sign in business windowEconomy

    Gen Z is snubbing college as a dismal job market and sky-high tuition forces them to weigh ROI: ‘No schools are immune’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Conn Student Union at Lee University in Cleveland, Tenn., is shown Friday, May 20, 2022. (Matt Hamilton//Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)Politics

    Foreign students are vital revenue source for colleges, including many small Christian schools. Now enrollment is sinking amid Trump policies

    By Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira, Makiya Seminera, and others
  • College studentSuccess

    Trump’s education reform hasn’t touched ‘affirmative action for the rich’: legacy admissions

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Linda McMahonPolitics

    Trump administration moves to freeze student-loan relief for workers at organizations with ‘substantial illegal purpose’

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • HarvardPolitics

    Harvard, Trump close to $500 million payment to settle federal funding freeze, source says

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump wants Harvard to pay a lot more than the $200 million Columbia settled for, sources say

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    $1.6 trillion of student loans are up in the air as Trump moves in on the Department of Education

    By Collin Binkley and The Associated Press