Rick Seltzer

What the Senate’s Sprawling Policy Bill Means for Higher Ed In passing Trump’s signature legislation Tuesday, the chamber softened many of the provisions that were most alarming to the sector. Still, there’s tough medicine for some colleges.

The Senate’s version of the BBB hikes the tax on endowment income, but it could have been much worse. Nice to share a byline with @rseltzer.bsky.social.

Today's Daily Briefing: viral policy.

It took three years for Florida’s “stop woke” fever to mutate into a push against DEI at the federal level. Why have the courts been so silent on questions of free expression raised by critics?

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Today's Daily Briefing: How Tuesday's funding-freeze chaos unfolded. Trump orders curricular review at military academies. LSU bars law professor from class. Does campus culture support journalism? Subscribe:

Jan. 27: If ICE shows up on campus Defense Secretary opposed race-conscious admissions. Tufts lecturers strike. Millions for an assistant football coach, and more.

Today's Daily Briefing: If ICE shows up on campus. Defense Secretary opposed race-conscious admissions. Tufts lecturers strike. Millions for an assistant football coach, and more.

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Today's Daily Briefing: Merit vs. DEI. Harvard adopts International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s antisemitism definition. Email-blast limits. Which postdocs get faculty jobs? Read and subscribe: https://buff.ly/4hnqQgC

Today's Daily Briefing: Medical-school diversity plunges. Court kills Biden Title IX rules before Trump can. College made its own “ghost” students. Democratic governor rebukes rising college costs, and more. Subscribe to read: https://buff.ly/4h9lHsn

Partnerships may be the worst solution for financially strapped middle-market colleges ... except for all the others. Subscribe to the Daily Briefing for story and more: https://buff.ly/3DIJr8m

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Today's briefing: A pro's coach comes to college, but why does this seem so familiar? Subscribe:

Today's Daily Briefing: We've reached peak high-school graduate, and coming decreases will reshape colleges. Subscribe for more: https://buff.ly/41nG5l0

Come for the wrestling puns. But please don't tap out when you see the dad jokes.

Today's Daiy Briefing: DEI's blue wall cracks. How to criticize a thesis without ever reading it. A new idea for the amenities race. Subscribe and read: https://buff.ly/3Bp0mMg

Thursday's Daily Briefing newsletter: Why student-conduct offices struggle to discipline protesters. Will Michigan walk back on DEI? More colleges paid the endowment tax. Subscribe and see more: https://buff.ly/3ZBLXWh

Today's Daily Briefing newsletter: College completion rates are up. Freshman enrollment is down. Financial outlooks are deteriorating. The word of the year about sums it up. Subscribe and see more here: https://buff.ly/3Zh3F05

Today's Daily Briefing: Learning loss's long tail for colleges

Plus: College Board settles student-privacy charges. Misconduct allegations catch up with music professor. University of Georgia med school OK’d, and more.

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Daily Briefing: The second enrollment cliff Feds force out two for-profit executives. Texas A&M pulls the plug on Qatar campus. A municipal tax on college students? And more.

Today's Daily Briefing: A double-dip enrollment cliff just became more likely.

Plus: The feds force out two for-profit executives. Texas A&M pulls the plug on its Qatar campus. A city wants to tax college students.

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Daily Briefing: Can small colleges fulfill donors’ wishes? Should they? Navient ditches student loans. ACT scores drive Nebraska scholarship. College housing for new alumni? And more.

Today's Daily Briefing: Can small colleges fulfill donors' wishes? Should they?

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