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Most clicked story of the week:
As Catholic schools handle greater bills and enrollment challenges, extra have been merging as a approach to save prices, mix assets and increase their attain. One skilled envisions a bigger community of Franciscan or Jesuit establishments to strengthen the sector.
Variety of the week:
425
That’s what number of workers jobs Northwestern College is slicing because it navigates greater prices, federal analysis funding losses and a hostile coverage local weather. Practically half of the eradicated roles have been vacant, however the non-public Illinois establishment can also be shedding workers. All instructed, the cuts signify round 5% of Northwestern’s staffing finances.
A authorities shakedown of upper ed?
- The Trump administration introduced this week that it has opened two civil rights probes into Duke College. The investigations, by two separate federal companies, are primarily based on allegations that the college’s regulation journal and medical faculty racially discriminate towards college students and staff. Within the regulation journal’s case, the Division of Training cited allegations that the publication offers a bonus to minority candidates. The companies prompt the non-public North Carolina college may “companion” with the administration to resolve a few of the claims.
- On Thursday, the College of California, Los Angeles mentioned federal companies had suspended a few of its analysis funding. The freeze follows accusations earlier within the week from the U.S. Division of Justice that UCLA violated civil rights regulation by failing to adequately shield Jewish and Israeli college students. The company mentioned the college ought to have eliminated a pro-Palestinian encampment erected in spring 2024 prior to it did.
- Brown College, in Rhode Island, struck a cope with the administration that features paying $50 million to state workforce improvement organizations that “adjust to anti-discrimination legal guidelines,” in keeping with the White Home. It adopted Columbia College’s greater than $220 million cope with the administration.
- A gaggle of Northwestern college urged faculty officers to refuse any potential deal with the Trump administration following a Wall Road Journal report that leaders have been in talks with the federal government a few doable settlement involving a cost to resolve investigations. The Northwestern college mentioned such a cost could be a “ransom” to an administration they are saying is attacking “basic democratic ideas.”
ICYMI — NACUBO’s 2025 convention:
- President Donald Trump’s second time period has introduced a cyclone of coverage upheavals with profound results for schools. To call only a few: an government order blitz on greater training, monetary support and tax adjustments in Republicans’ large spending bundle, and deep cuts to the U.S. Division of Training. Consultants on the Nationwide Affiliation of College and Faculty Enterprise Officers’ annual assembly broke down the impacts at classes in Nationwide Harbor, Maryland.
- As monetary pressures on schools mount, some are teaming up with their friends on shared providers. California State College is endeavor such an effort, as directors look to mix and streamline their back-office operations throughout the system’s campuses in areas akin to procurement and cybersecurity.
Quote of the week:
“Who the president is makes a distinction. They set the tone of the establishment in some ways. However presidents as we speak can train much less unbiased management than they did prior to now — they’re being placed on a shorter and shorter leash.”
James Finkelstein
Professor emeritus at George Mason College
Finkelstein spoke with Greater Ed Dive in regards to the altering position of faculty presidents in a extra politicized and corporatized surroundings for greater training.
