Associate VP @cgheesling.bsky.social is speaking today with @ithakasr.bsky.social's Holistic Credit Mobility project about the changing national landscape regarding workforce Pell, regional accreditation, and three-year bachelor’s degree programs and their impacts on credit mobility efforts.

🗓️ We’ve recently published a series of six research papers and a synthesis paper that provides a brief overview of each paper, identifies key themes across findings, and concludes with policy implications and recommendations. Check them out here: ow.ly/wxAI50WyjbY

The Department of Justice issued guidance for all organizations receiving federal funding regarding DEI. Notably, it seems to put top ten percent admission plans on shaky ground because of references to geographic targeting.

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

This morning, Associate VP @carrienklein.bsky.social spoke on a panel at the State Financial Aid Research Network Annual Conference about our role in the data space; the scope of state #highereddata; levers and challenges of state data use; and opportunities for state data in uncertain times.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Corey Gheesling! 👏 As our new Associate Vice President, he will focus on building SHEEO's workforce development portfolio to assist state higher ed agencies in their efforts to meet economic & workforce demands. ow.ly/BOq850WmvkH @cgheesling.bsky.social

Don’t just look at the higher ed provisions in the bill. The impact of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts on state budgets will lead to cuts in state higher ed funding.

What Republicans’ Sprawling Policy Bill Means for Higher Ed Trump’s signature legislation now heads to his desk after passing the House. It hikes some endowment taxes, remakes student aid, and introduces a new accountability standard for colleges.

The biggest impact of this legislation on higher ed is going to come from the budget hits states are going to take.

There's a lot in a state budget that can't be cut. Higher ed can be.

That's likely to make higher education more expensive for millions of people.
www.chronicle.com/article/what...

GOP Megabill Slashes Medicaid & SNAP, Blows Massive Hole in State Budget

"The Office of State Planning and Budgeting estimated that the GOP megabill will decrease state revenues by as much as $500 million and increase costs to the state by as much as $650 million."

www.cohousedems.com/news/gop-meg...

We're teaming up with @ithakasr.bsky.social on a new project to assess how state higher education agencies use IPEDS to support their systems, inform policy and planning, and advance credential attainment and other postsecondary education goals. Learn more: sr.ithaka.org/blog/uses-of...

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/

Evers, lawmakers agree to increase UW System funding by $256 million Gov. Tony Evers and Republican legislative leaders reached a tentative agreement to increase the UW System budget by the largest amount in about two decades.

This is a step forward.

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‘Big, beautiful bill’ spurs Democratic plans for emergency actions to counter cuts California, Connecticut, New York, New Mexico and Minnesota are among the states weighing plans to call lawmakers back to address the fallout.

You all know what is coming for #highered

www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Can Donors Fill the Major Budget Holes That Colleges Face Under Trump?

No, donors wont, they cant.

The NIH alone made about $34 billion in grants a year. Gates, the biggest foundation in the world, has $77 billion in assets.

Philanthropy is important, but it won’t save us.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

If the Senate version of the endowment tax passes, not only will universities pay much less than the House proposed, but many fewer colleges will pay the endowment tax than pay it *currently*.

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Whoa.

Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Includes Additional Provisions That Violate the Byrd Rule | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

Byrd Bath for higher ed provisions www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities

Back of the envelope calculation from the other day using CBPP data---the House cuts to SNAP in Pennsylvania would be 47% of the state's higher ed budget. Doesn't count additional administrative costs, Medicaid, etc. Just one SNAP provision.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Some universities are making more modest adjustments for now, and approaches vary even within single systems. Public university trustees in Tennessee will soon vote on a proposal to raise in-state tuition by 3 percent at outposts in Chattanooga, Martin and Pulaski. The state’s flagship university in Knoxville, however, is not looking to increase tuition, though it is seeking a slight bump in mandatory fees.

I don't like the New York Times referring to regional public universities with their own presidents as "outposts." That comes across as very dismissive of the workhorses of higher education.

Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities

The bill in Congress in going to make this much, much worse. As as recent op-ed in Inside Higher Ed noted-"You ain't seen nothing yet."

Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

I called this correctly in 2023.

“Every budget cycle for the past 10 years, the Wisconsin Legislature conjures up a new reason not to fund the UW system,” he said. “Now it’s DEI, but in 2025 it will be something else.” ---Inside Higher Ed 12/8/23

Research Note: Senate Republican Leaders’ Proposal Risks Deep Cuts to Food Assistance, Some States Ending SNAP Entirely | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities States, which must balance their budgets every year, would struggle to absorb these substantial new costs.

A strong argument can be made that the most important public #highered provisions in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" aren't in the education section.

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Selective Service on X: "Make sure the young men in your life are ready for a successful future!" / X Make sure the young men in your life are ready for a successful future!

Interesting that selective service is highlighting state-level grant aid.
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Approaching Academic Armageddon: News Article – Independent Institute Over a mere two days recently (May 14-15), the major daily news outlets serving higher education, Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education,

The man who is wrote the article below ("The very integrity of the academic enterprise is rightly being questioned") is the same man who was found in the cache of files from the tobacco industry arguing about the benefits of allowing smoking indoors.

www.independent.org/article/2025...

I need new material!

Middle America is gonna be stoked when tuition increases at every 4-year public with more than a handful of Chinese students.

Just a reminder that there will be more headlines about the student loan repayment crisis in the months ahead.

Public higher ed leaders predicted this crisis decades ago, but policymakers chose a different path.

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