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Harvard, Trump Administration, Higher education, theGrio.com
September 17, 2025
The UMRP ended in May due to pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate race-conscious admissions.
September 17, 2025
Faculty, staff, students, and unions allege the federal government is weaponizing civil rights enforcement to undermine academic freedom.
September 3, 2025
Florida joined a growing list of states ending tuition waivers for students without legal status, as Trump challenges programs nationwide.
Harvard, Trump Administration, Higher education, theGrio.com
August 15, 2025
Trump often rails against systems he describes as “rigged,” but he has overlooked a glaring instance in higher education.
July 24, 2025
Columbia agrees to pay over $220 million and adopt federal mandates to regain $400 million in research funding this year.
July 23, 2025
As Harvard battles the Trump administration, conservative efforts to reshape higher education spread across public universities nationwide.
Howard University, theGrio.com
July 20, 2025
After overcoming childhood challenges, Tamia Akers now faces new college loan limits under Trump’s education bill—but she’s not backing down.
November 6, 2023
With the cards being stacked against us as Black Americans, is it worth spending all that money on college education?
September 29, 2023
The White House issued strategies for higher education institutions to advance diversity on campuses after the Supreme Court’s ruling.
May 20, 2023
The bill would change the way that students learn and faculty teach across Ohio, the nation's fourth-largest public university system.
May 25, 2022
A 21-year-old South Carolina woman has become the youngest Black, female graduate from Meharry Medical College.
May 20, 2022
A soldier and his sister have gone viral after he returned from a deployment to surprise his sibling at her…
April 15, 2022
Howard University president Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick has announced that he plans to retire in 2024 after nine years on…
Columbia University Cancels Classes For Two Days After Faculty Member Is Exposed To Coronavirus
January 10, 2022
Attorneys say colleges including Columbia, Georgetown and MIT have overcharged 170,000 financial-aid recipients by 'hundreds of millions.'
October 17, 2021
Gordon Klein is suing UCLA after his response to a request that he be more lenient on Black students generated…
August 21, 2021
Spelman College's faculty agree to return to classrooms after initially saying they would teach remotely due to unclear COVID protocols.
August 21, 2021
The move marks the start of a broader overhaul of a program that has been criticized for having overly burdensome…
August 21, 2021
Indiana University Board of Trustees members elected Quinn Buckner to a two-year term. He is the first Black person to…
July 10, 2021
The addition of Ta-Nehesi Coates and Nikole Hannan-Jones to Howard University has placed a renewed spotlight on the HBCU.
Marveon Mabon education thegrio.com
June 24, 2021
A growing number of Black students in United States are turning to crowdsourcing to offset college tuition costs.