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Live Updates: Tracking Trump's Higher Ed Agenda

Tracking Supreme Court Filings — DIY Scrapper and Alert Regime

Trump Administration Turns Up Heat on Harvard With Financial Lever

Trump Moves to Defund Minority-Serving Institutions

How the U. of Chicago’s Financial Strains Are a Warning for Higher Ed

Should Colleges Spend Down Their Surpluses?

How the GOP Plan to End Grad PLUS Loans Could Affect Your Campus

What the Failed Sale of the University of Phoenix Means for Higher Ed

Will Trump's DOJ Use Consent Decrees Against Columbia

How Much Power Does the Trump Administration Hold Over Harvard?

Columbia’s President Stepped Down, Replaced By Board Co-Chair.

Trump Plans to Shutter USAID. Here’s What That Could Mean for Higher Ed.

What Trump's Research-Spending Cap Means For Your University

What Trump's Trillion-Dollar Funding Freeze Could Mean For Your College?

Believe It Or Not, The Cost of College Tuition Is Shrinking

Arizona State U. Is Expanding to California. It’s Been Rocky.

Financial Headwinds Force Colleges To Raid Their Endowments

Can Colleges Withstand a Second Enrollment Cliff?

How the U. of Arizona Found Itself in a ‘Financial Crisis’ of Its Own Making

Education Dept. Uncovers ‘Culture of Silence’ at Liberty U.

2 States Restricted DEI. Here’s How Colleges Revised Their Websites.

Why Is West Virginia University Making Sweeping Cuts?

After JAMA Editor’s Controversial Resignation, A $500,000 Payout

How a $10-Million Accounting Error Rattled the U. of Hartford

Following Expansion, This University Is Drastically Cutting Back

North Idaho College’s Credit Rating Downgraded

Accreditor Pressures North Idaho College with Show-Cause Order

Could North Idaho College Really Lose Its Accreditation?

College Cutbacks Strip Workers of $728 Mil. In Retirement Pay

Despite Sky-High Inflation, No Sign Yet of Surging Tuition Costs

After 'Transformational' Pact, the U. of Arizona and Zovio Part Ways

Here's How Much Covid Relief Money Your College Can Expect.

In Latest Public Filings, Liberty U. Blasts Former President Jerry Falwell Jr.

How Ohio State U. Successfully Trademarked the Word 'THE'

How Did These Colleges End Up On A Monopoly Board?

Watchdog to Congress: Scrutinize Higher Ed and Predictive Analytics

Work in Public Education? You Might Be an Investor in Chegg

How a President Decided It Was Time to Close His College

N.Y. Fed: Default Surge When Student-Loan Repayment Resumes

How Ohio Valley U. Fight For Survival Ultimately Ended In Bankruptcy

What 4 Billionaires With Russia Ties Have Donated to American Colleges

During Pandemic, These Colleges Inked New Pay Deals With Presidents

America’s Standardized-Testing Giants Are Losing Money Fast

Feds Warn Shuttering College Operator: Don't Mislead Students

Was a Mega-University's Bold Plans for Growth Too Ambitious?

Here’s Who Was Hit Hardest by Higher Ed’s Pandemic-Driven Job Losses

Can These Struggling Degree Programs Survive a Pandemic?

5 Takeaways Detailing How Politics Warped Public Higher Education

How Politics Warped Public Higher Education

Following The Money — How Politics Warped Public Higher Education

Executive Compensation at Public and Private Colleges

Covid-19 Could Push Some Struggling Public Regional Colleges To The Brink

How a For-Profit Tycoon Turned His Colleges Into Nonprofits

With Revenues Choked Off, Colleges Ask: How Much Cash Do They Need?

Coronavirus’s Strain on Colleges So Far

What Happens to College Food Workers as Covid Shuts Down Campuses

Do Graduate Assistants Earn a Living Wage? Not in These Cities

What You Need to Know About DeVos’s Closer Scrutiny of Foreign Gifts

Private-College Presidents Reap Millions From Long Tenures

How Chasing Prestige Is Starting to Strain Some Elite Institutions

What We Learned From Turning Point USA’s Latest Financial Disclosure

Splits Between Colleges and Presidents Can Yield 6-Figure Golden Parachutes

Short Presidential Tenures, But Large Payouts. Why?

Former USC Dean Accused of Drug-Fueled 2nd Life Paid Nearly $1 Million

How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated

The Companies Behind The Varsity Blues Scandal

UCF Will Pay Its Former President To Leave. He's Not The First.

The Education Dept. Failed to Monitor Loan Servicers, Watchdog Finds

Inside Wright State’s 6-Year Journey Into Financial Trouble

America's Provosts and Career Paths: An Analysis

How Scandal and Severance Enrich Private-College Presidents

Hate Crimes on Campuses Are Rising, New FBI Data Show

Tracking Webpage Changes and Breaking News With Klaxon

A Political Candidate With Steep Student Loan Debt? Should It Matter?

U. of Louisville Wants $4 Million Back From Its One-Time President

How Will Michigan State U. Pay $500 Million Fine?

Higher Interest Costs For Borrowers Delaying Repayment

Meet Drew Cloud, Well-Quoted Student Loan Expert. And Not Real.

Here’s What We Know About Private-College Police Departments

Who Foots Most of the Bill for Public Colleges? In 28 States, It’s Students

Here Are the Hottest College Sports — and the Ones in Decline

How the NCAA’s March Madness Windfall Makes Its Way to Colleges

Can Student Debt Hold Back the Economy? What the Research Says

How Russian Trolls Used Higher Ed to Sow Discord Online

Campuses See Hate-Crime Spike After 2016 Election

Inside the Process That Jump-Starts Federal Sex-Harassment Lawsuits

Why Students Are Leaving Illinois in Droves — and Why It Matters

New Tax Law Takes Aim at Higher Education’s Millionaires Club

Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015

Banks Pay Colleges Big Money to Market Student Checking Accounts

Auditors Fault UVa Police For Failing to Prepare for White Supremacists

Minority-Serving Institutions Set To Lose Money Under House GOP Plan

How a Defense Dept. Program Equips Campus Police Forces

Tell Us Where The Confederate Monuments on Your Campus Are

Texas Presidents Top List Of Best-Paid Public College Executives

39 Private-College Leaders Earn More Than $1 Million

Bonuses Push More Public-College Leaders Past $1 Million

Who Owns Downtown Saint Paul — An Interactive Investigation

Visualized — New Bill Would Force Sex Offenders Out Of St. Paul

Minnesota's Struggles To Account For All Fatal Police Encounters

Search a Decade of Fatal Shootings By Police In Minnesota

Shaken-Baby Syndrome Prosecutions — An Interactive Database

St. Paul Paid Out $10.4 million in Staff Overtime in 2014

Leap from Legislator to Lobbyist a Short One in Minnesota

From $3 Bil. In Earnings To Layoffs — Target Corp.’s Travails In 7 Charts

Contribution Credit — WaPo's Shaken Science

Should the Education Dept. Start Collecting Its Own Debts?

On Campus, Grenade Launchers, M-16s, and Armored Vehicles

Promises of Student Loan Debt Relief Meet Privacy Concerns

A Glimpse at the Connections Among 7 Debt-Relief Companies

I Called 4 Companies for Advice on My Student Debt. This Is What I Learned.

The Pitch — Debt Relief. The Reality: Borrowers May Pay More.

Report: Education Dept. Must Monitor Debt-Collection Firms Better

Faculty, Students Give Input on Chess Program’s Past, Future

Read Susan Polgar's Million-Dollar Chess Program Proposal

Players Leverage Their Chess Skills to Earn U.S. College Education

Former Student Attends Class with Pending Default on Student Debt

University Houses and Perks Not Just For Presidents

As Healthcare Costs Balloon, Are Boomers Ready for Retirement?

Consultants See Demand Rise as ObamaCare is Installed

After 20 Years of Real Estate Purchases, Webster Eyes Expansion

Election 2012: Who Webster's Board Supported

Captured Gaddafi Son Wished to Attend International Webster Campus

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Contribution Credits for Dan Bauman at The St. Paul Pioneer Press