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Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other [ The Hechinger Report ]

The flava:

It seemed like a win-win: a proposal to let community colleges in Illinois award bachelor’s degrees in certain subjects to rural residents and working adults who live beyond commuting distance of four-year universities.

The change would not only make things “easier and more affordable for students,” according to backers including Gov. JB Pritzker; it would increase the supply of workers with the skills employers need. 

But four-year universities lined up against it. And a political ally, flanked by several of their presidents, was blunt about why: It would cut into their business. . . .     

The article:

https://hechingerreport.org/under-political-attack-and-with-enrollment-falling-colleges-take-the-fight-to-each-other/

India’s Education Minister Steps Down, Handing Win to Protesters [ NYTimes ]

The flava:

India’s education minister stepped down on Saturday, in a major victory for a student protest movement whose explosive rise has become one of the most serious challenges in years to the power of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, submitted his resignation to Mr. Modi, bowing to weeks of public pressure that culminated in nationwide street protests from Delhi and Mumbai to Kolkata and Chennai.

Mr. Pradhan said he had been “deeply pained” by the events of recent days, but he pointed a finger at what he called “anti-national forces,” saying he did not want them to take advantage of the massive protests.

The movement emerged in May, powered by widespread anger and frustration after the government ordered millions of students to retake an extremely competitive national medical school entrance exam because test questions had been leaked. Students held Mr. Pradhan, under whose watch several national exams were marred by leaks, responsible.

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/asia/india-education-minister-resigns-cockroach-protests.html

Colleges Promise ‘Business as Usual’ on Middle East Campuses Despite War [ NYTimes ]

The flava:

The Middle East campuses of American universities are expecting — or perhaps just hoping — to be open for classes as usual for the coming semester, even as the United States’ conflict with Iran poses new risks in the region.

Some American schools have long run programs in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The war, however, meant that students spent much of the spring semester enduring shutdowns, evacuations, online courses and other emergency measures. But the unraveling of the cease-fire between Washington and Tehran is not yet curbing universities’ ambitions to teach as they ordinarily would in the Middle East.

The University of New Haven is still planning to inaugurate its new campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, though probably without some faculty members it intended to send from the United States.

“The word in Saudi is that students are going to school and it’s business as usual,” Jens Frederiksen, New Haven’s president, said in an interview. “We’re proceeding with the launch.”

For American universities, campuses in wealthy Persian Gulf states can offer new revenue and welcome clout. Those perks, though, come with sporadic political headaches at home, reputational perils and regional safety concerns. After a strike on a physics building at a university in Tehran, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps warned in March that “American universities in the West Asia region are legitimate targets for us.”

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/us/middle-east-campuses-american-universities.html

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