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A dispatch from the not-so-happy place that is the roach-infested NJ Transit: “Everyday I go into the office my train is delayed and I risked being fired.” By sri taylor. bloomberg.com/features/2025-… via Bloomberg

Headcount at the NYC-based university has fallen 9% in the past two years, leading to a deficit and dragging down earnings. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“I had to walk for seven days through the Amazon rainforest. I saw dead bodies, starvation, disease and despair. Who endures the hell of Panama just to end up in limbo and fear in the U.S.?"

Investors are wary of the enrollment declines, high expenses and shrinking applicant pools small colleges face, but a lot of times they're still buying their bonds: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Weather experts and meteorologists tell us that budget cuts are going to make Nebraska and U.S. forecasts less reliable as tornado season approaches.

Lee Enterprises continues to gut The Omaha World-Herald — today, they laid off some of the most experienced, well-sourced reporters in the newsroom. Steve is a gem. So are the others who lost their jobs. Shame on Lee Enterprises. There is barely anything left of the news staff.

The barrage of overlapping attacks from Trump’s White House on universities and research has left educators at a loss on how to even formulate a response bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

“Anytime there’s a significant reduction in outside funding, we have to make some very tough decisions when it comes to employees and space,” NU’s Jeffrey Gold told Elizabeth Rembert. It’s Nonstop Disaster Planning on College Campuses ⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Wide-ranging story about challenges to higher education funding, including in #Nebraska, from former colleague Elizabeth Rembert

Five years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic was closing college campuses, shifting classrooms online and pushing enrollment off a cliff. Two months of President Donald Trump’s administration has even that chaos beat, one higher ed expert told me for Businessweek: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Harvard is the wealthiest university in the country -- it has $53 billion in its endowment and $6.5 billion of revenue. Can it afford standing up to Trump? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Harvard University’s balance sheet — fortified to withstand surprise blows — is facing an unprecedented test as it faces off with the #Trump administration bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics by Elizabeth Rembert Amanda Albright

Harvard represents the lifeblood of the Massachusetts economy, and its defiant stance against the Trump administration threatens to jeopardize a broader ecosystem that thrives off its existence. Brooke Sutherland and I for Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: #Harvard University’s endowment is in advanced talks to sell roughly $1 billion of private equity fund stakes to Lexington Partners bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Higher fares, service cuts and more gloom and doom await commuters from Philadelphia to Chicago to San Francisco if transit agencies can't close a combined $6 billion budget hole in the coming years. My Big Take for Bloomberg with Aaron W. Gordon bloomberg.com/news/features/…

ADDICTED TO ICE: Small, rural communities are convinced their economic well-being depends on ICE contracts that keep private jails open for immigration detention -- no matter what happens inside bloom.bg/4j28jqp

MUST READ: David Swensen pioneered a model that became the envy of the industry. One by one, universities across the country aimed to emulate the push into private equity, by Yale. "Project Gatsby" starts to unravel that trade. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

At Arizona State, international students provide $360 million of tuition revenue. The University of Central Missouri has already lost more than 1,000 such pupils. A must read by Amanda Albright Elizabeth Rembert Ann Choi 최주연 Francesca Maglione bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"Michael Crow [Arizona State University Pres.] is upfront about the money at stake: In-person and online international students contributed $360 million in tuition revenue in fiscal 2024, helping lower attendance costs for Arizonans," wrote Amanda Albright Francesca Maglione Elizabeth Rembert Ann Choi 최주연.

1/3 "Albright College, a small liberal arts school in Reading, Pennsylvania, is parting with its art collection that has included works by Salvador Dali and Robert Rauschenberg," wrote Elizabeth Rembert Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…