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“The only way my loans will ever get paid off is if I either die or win the lottery, which I don’t play,” said Valerie Scott, who owes $389,000 for a degree she completed at Argosy, a for-profit college, more than a decade ago. WBEZ Open Campus wbez.org/education/2025…

A Black student at The University of Chicago says she experienced racial discrimination. Now her PhD is at risk. WBEZ Open Campus wbez.org/education/2025…

Trump plans to try to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Most school funding is local, as are policy decisions. But his actions could still leave a lasting mark. trib.al/0cMX7ZJ

OneGoal Chief Program Officer Karla Robles-Reyes spoke with Lisa Kurian Philip of WBEZ about the impossible choice students from mixed-status families face as they plan their futures. 🎙️Read or listen to the full segment below. wbez.org/education/2025…

Big thanks to Charlotte West (Ed journo covering prisons) for tipping me off to this legislation, and for her photos too. WBEZ Open Campus #college Illinois weighs opening state financial aid to students in prison wbez.org/education/2025…

Few graphics convey the civilian toll of the so-called “War on Terror” better than this one. At least 38 million people have been forcibly displaced in the post-9/11 wars. This is roughly equivalent to the population of Canada. [1/3]

Students and faculty fought to establish cultural centers University of Illinois Chicago and at campuses across #Illinois, to provide spaces for students to celebrate one another’s differences. Under the Trump administration, they worry these spaces will be taken away. wbez.org/education/2025…

THIS DETAIL: "Patel also sells K$H wine, featuring Trump’s mugshot on the label, with prices ranging from $109 to $344.99 per bottle; $10 from the sale of each bottle is donated to the Kash Foundation."

"You can’t achieve the goal of robust and open inquiry ... if you’re not creating environments that are free from racial bias, stigma, stereotypes and harassment." Jonathan Feingold on the legality of DEI and what universities should be doing in this moment: wbez.org/education/2025…

Professor @bethhurd.bsky.social calls the new Northwestern training on antisemitism "unscholarly": "This is a university that values debate and discussion, not political propaganda.” WBEZ Open Campus wbez.org/education/2025…

I've seen screenshots of this training. It's absurd. It equates Jewish Voice for Peace with the KKK, claims that you cannot possibly be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic and generally ignores the history of the whole region.

So glad the Baltimore Banner has a higher ed reporter! Also, this lead photo is beautiful.

Talk about whiplash. In January I wrote this story👇 about a PhD student's experiences with racial discrimination as a Black woman at The University of Chicago. Today UChicago is under federal investigation relating to supposed preferential treatment of Black students. wbez.org/education/2025…

.Northwestern student: "I would like to see from my academic institution ... some resistance and some strength in the face of … what is starting as an attack on pro-Palestine speech, but is going to continue as an attack on academia as a whole.” wbez.org/education/2025…

Chi Bd member Jitu Brown says he went to Springfield with seven other board members to insist that Chicago Public Schools are equitably funded. He says they plan to go down every two weeks.

🇺🇸 Visa Terminations Jolt Illinois Colleges ▫“The bar keeps moving, as far as who’s at risk,” says one staffer at the University of Illinois Chicago ▫Lisa Kurian Philip ▫is.gd/AkkOUZ #frontpagestoday #USA Chicago Sun-Times 🇺🇸

This is the kind of story where the Sun-Times shines. What a picture. chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/…