Experts fear the number of uninsured students will rise and graduation rates will drop due to Medicaid cuts in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Vital mental health services will be harder to access, they add. Read more from Inside Higher Ed's Johanna Alonso: insidehighered.com/news/students/…

I'm excited to spend this week representing Inside Higher Ed at the SHEEO Conference. If you'll be around and want to talk about how changes from the Trump administration are affecting your state, reach out! Send me a DM here or email me at [email protected].

For when reporters question if people read their work, I mentioned a salmon advocacy group in one sentence in one story in 2022, and I still get news releases from them. Just got one today!

The Institute of Education Sciences has been gutted, and so has nearly an entire profession—education research. “It’s an intellectual dust bowl—there are no crops coming out of this ground anymore,” one former government contractor told Matt Barnum. wsj.com/us-news/educat…

ICYMI: For the second year in a row Mizzou told a Black student group that they couldn't hold a welcome event as planned because the word "Black" was in the title. Higher ed experts say this is just one example of an change in campus cultures nationwide. insidehighered.com/news/students/…

Everything has a higher ed angle… even Taylor Swifts’ engagement 💍

“It is the job of the courts to similarly step up, to act to safeguard academic freedom & freedom of speech as required by the Const., & to ensure that important research is not improperly subjected to arbitrary & procedurally infirm grant terminations" nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/…