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Election 2024

How federal, state, and local elections could influence higher ed policy.
Trump Retakes the Presidency. Here’s How Election Day Played Out on Campuses.
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena on November 05, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Political Football
Why Everybody Hates Higher Education
By Karin Fischer September 24, 2024
Neither political party is happy. They just diagnose the problems differently.
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Decision 2024
No Matter Who Wins the Election, Higher Ed Will Feel the Heat
Former US President Barack Obama speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024.
Policy Reset
College for All? Not Anymore.
People at the U.S. presidential debate media filing center watch a live broadcast of the first presidential debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia, the United States, on Sept. 10, 2024. Harris and Trump faced off for the first time Tuesday night in a 2024 U.S. presidential debate in the city of Philadelphia. (Photo by Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images)
'A Lot of Anxiety'
On the Eve of a Tight Election, Higher Ed Is Holding Its Breath

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Trump and His Allies Are Preparing to Overhaul Higher Education
People protest outside a building on the campus of Saint Anselm College hosting a CNN televised town hall gathering with former President Donald Trump, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Manchester, N.H.
Protest Monitors, Art Therapy, Civil Discourse: How Colleges Have Prepared for the Election
Ronald Reagan with his education secretary, William J. Bennett, in 1986. Both men believed that the Department of Education should be shuttered; neither got his way.
A Brief History of GOP Attempts to Kill the Education Dept.
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College? Maybe Not.
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A Small Regional College Wanted to Celebrate Tim Walz. The City Refused.
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Why Political Text Blasts Targeting College Students Are Drawing Outrage
INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 23: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, pumps his fist as he finishes speaking at a campaign rally at the Ed Fry Arena September 23, 2024 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Trump is campaigning throughout western Pennsylvania today.
A Second Trump Term Could Devastate Higher Ed
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‘Students Resent Professors Who Ignore Public Events’