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Each episode of dotEDU presents a deep dive into a major public policy issue impacting college campuses and students across the country. Hosts Mushtaq Gunja, Jon Fansmith, and Sarah Spreitzer lead you through thought-provoking conversations on topics such as Department of Education policy, college costs and affordability, and more.
Update frequency:
every 18 days
Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
165 episodes
since June 25, 2019
episodic
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The courts continue to play a major role in shaping higher education policy, with cases involving research funding, admissions standards, and more moving through the legal system.
The dotEDU hosts talk through the cases they're watching, what they could mean for colleges and universities, and what…
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Congressional appropriations for the upcoming fiscal year, new proposals on international students and visas, accreditation, and colleges' tax-exempt status are all on the agenda as Congress returns to Washington for a short stretch before the midterms.
Hosts Mushtaq Gunja, Jon Fansmith, and Sarah…
Higher education is looking ahead to a busy fall, with midterm elections shaping the political landscape, an unfinished government funding process for FY 2027, and a wave of proposed rules working their way through various federal agencies. In the last eipsode of Season 7, the dotEDU hosts break do…
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) higher education provisions are effective July 1, and financial aid offices are on the front lines of putting them into practice.
Melanie Storey, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, joins hosts Mushtaq Gunja and J…
The Department of Education is shifting civil rights investigations to the Department of Justice, a move that undermines the resolution-focused approach to resolving complaints that has supported students and campuses for decades.
The dotEDU team breaks down what this latest move to dismantle ED m…
The hosts talk live to an audience of ACE Fellows about the White House's new proposal to rewrite the rulebook that governs how campuses manage federal grant funds, along with other higher education policy developments we're watching this summer.
Here are some of the links mentioned in this week's…
Yale University's Committee on Trust in Higher Education spent a year examining the forces behind declining public confidence in colleges and universities and came back with 20 recommendations for how institutions can respond. Julia Adams, cochair of the committee, walks us through the findings and…
The landscape for federal TRIO programs has shifted dramatically since we talked about it in January. The Department of Education (ED) has issued new grant proposals that would cut the number of programs by more than half and fundamentally redirect TRIO away from its mission of college access.
We…
Colleges have spent years building systems to help students vote. Now a mix of federal guidance, investigations, and state-level changes is putting new pressure on that work. ACE General Counsel Peter McDonough joins us to explain where the legal lines are and where uncertainty is creating risk. Bu…
The hosts are joined by ACE's Emmanual Guillory to break down key federal rulemaking shaping student aid. The conversation focuses on the latest developments in graduate loan limits, new rules for Workforce Pell and what it will take for institutions to participate, and the Department of Education'…
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