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Trump Taps Lawyer Involved with Trump U Case for Federal Job

WASHINGTON — As a top aide to Florida’s attorney general, Carlos G. Muniz helped defend the office’s decision to sit out legal action against Trump University. Now the president is naming him to be the top lawyer in the U.S. Education Department. President Donald Trump has announced his intent to nominate Muniz to serve as […]

April 11, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Guillermo: Does Your Diversity Look Like Latest White House War Room?

When there’s a crisis on campus what does your institution’s “war room” look like? Is it even close to a perfect mirror of your campus community?

April 9, 2017

Students

Colleges, Universities Officially Cite Potential Harm of Travel Ban

With the second travel ban issued by President Donald J. Trump being held in abeyance, colleges and universities are urging a federal court that will hear the case to consider how the ban will undermine diversity in higher education.

April 9, 2017

Students

Rodriguez: Beware of Poisoned Orange Tree

The task of determining what it means to be human should be the primary work of institutions of higher learning. At least it should be.

April 5, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Guillermo: Halted or Not, Travel Ban Already Impacting Higher Ed

Even while both of Donald Trump’s executive orders banning travel from six Muslim-majority nations have been stalled by federal district courts, the fear of a travel ban is already creating negative impacts for schools, according to a new friend of the court brief filed by 31 universities on Friday.

April 2, 2017

Students

TRIO Advocates Say Budget Proposal Cuts to Core

When President Trump issued his budget plan for the government’s next fiscal year, his proposed cuts in education programs hit close to home for thousands of people who count federal assistance as key to their ability to go to and complete college.

March 26, 2017

Students

Perry Blasts Election of 1st Openly Gay Texas A&M Student President

AUSTIN, Texas — Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal, is inserting himself into an unusually small political dispute: an election for student body president at Texas A&M. In an op-ed submitted to the Houston Chronicle, the former Texas governor suggested that his alma mater’s first openly gay president may have […]

March 23, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Sharpton: Higher Ed Diversity in Jeopardy in Trump Era

If President Donald J. Trump succeeds in getting Neil Gorsuch confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice, the use of race as a factor in college admissions will be just “one seat away” from extinction, activist and civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton predicted.

March 23, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Trump to Deliver Liberty University Commencement Address

WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump will deliver the keynote address at Liberty University’s commencement ceremony. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. provided the details of the May 13 graduation ceremony in a statement Wednesday. Falwell was a close ally to Trump during his campaign and told The Associated Press in January that he’d been asked […]

March 22, 2017

Students

New Budget Proposal May Hit Hispanic-Serving Institutions Hardest

So far, President Trump’s budget proposal doesn’t come close to the “aspirational” levels of funding that HBCU advocacy organizations had been seeking.

March 19, 2017

Students

Higher Ed Leaders Lambaste Federal Budget Proposal

Higher education leaders blasted federal budget proposal released Thursday as one that will make college less accessible, less affordable and set back the nation’s workforce and research interests.

March 16, 2017

Women

UW-La Crosse Dispatcher Fired Over Trump Offered Job Back

LA CROSSE, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher who says she was fired for supporting President Donald Trump’s travel ban will get her job back. Chancellor Joe Gow says the university system’s legal counsel recommended dispatcher Kimberly Dearman be rehired. Dearman was fired on Monday following a university investigation into a complaint […]

March 16, 2017