Inside Higher Ed

Building Bridges, Not Just Programs

For decades, higher education’s relationship with workforce development has been characterized by a kind of polite distance. Universities offered degrees. Employers hired graduates. And the space ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Commissary profits too often fund sheriff’s expenses, not programs for people in jail, grand jury says, urging better management, more focus

Millions of dollars a year in profits from San Diego County jail commissaries are used by the sheriff’s department to pay routine expenses rather than to support programs that benefit the men and ...
STAT

Why NIH’s policy on grants to universities with DEI programs is not cause for widespread alarm

The recent news that the NIH will require universities to certify their diversity programs comply with federal civil rights law created understandable anxiety in the academic community. The confusion ...
Forbes

The Leadership Shift Required When Your Mission Serves People, Not Programs

Chris Simonsen is the CEO of Orangewood Foundation, a leading provider of youth and young adult programs and services in Orange County. In the nonprofit sector, we spend a lot of time talking about ...
Inside Higher Ed

Some DEI Programs Are Vulnerable, Not Illegal

The Trump administration’s directives on diversity, equity and inclusion have wreaked havoc across the higher education landscape. Confusion persists about whether all DEI activities are forbidden or ...

These programs help poor students with college. Trump wants to pull the funding

For 60 years, TRIO has helped millions of people along the path to a degree, but the administration says it is no longer ...
Washington Examiner

Ending DEI programs means Americans win and bureaucracy loses

Diversity, equality, and inclusion concept. LGBTQ abstract letters on wooden cubes over pink. Diversity, equity, inclusion. These three words, commonly referred to as DEI, sound harmless, even ...