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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that. Student affairs administrators at UC Irvine used a one-time grant to create a new position for a food access and security coordinator.

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Enrollment trends new and old emerge from pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

“There are roughly 4,500 colleges and universities in the United States, so there are roughly 4,500 stories about fall ’22 enrollment,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education. That share fell to about 55 percent in 2020.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Books Alexander, Bryan (2020). Public Affairs. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Women and Higher Education in American History. and Kelly Nielson (2021) Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities Hampel, Robert L.

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Groups may sue over Biden's debt plan, but they need a plaintiff

Inside Higher Ed

In Biden’s case, the administration is claiming it has the authority to cancel student debt through the HEROES Act because of the state of emergency that has been in place for the COVID-19 pandemic since January 2020. The state of emergency is currently set to lift on Oct. But scale alone is not going to get you to major questions.

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Democratic Protests on Campus: Modeling the Better World We Seek (Annelise Orleck)

Higher Education Inquirer

Politicians heavily funded by Israel’s premier lobbying firm – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – are more than happy to conflate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism. The bans on teaching the history of minority communities in the U.S. as they rile up voters in the 2024 election cycle.

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