There are solely so some ways to say that 2025 was a busy and an unprecedented 12 months for the upper training sector.
Amid that turmoil, Larger Ed Dive labored arduous to carry you nuanced and compelling journalism. That ranged from in-depth analyses on what pushed an ‘immortal’ college to close to a tracker on President Donald Trump’s makes an attempt to control higher education through institutional dealmaking to persevering with protection of his administration’s work to shutter the U.S. Education Department.
However our group couldn’t get to every part throughout final 12 months’s tumultuous increased ed information cycle.
What can we are saying? Inexperienced is a good coloration on us.
Appropriately impressed by Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual Jealousy List, listed below are 10 tales we want we had written — however cherished studying anyway.
“Feds Wonderful Baker Faculty $2.5 Million for Misleading Advertising That Left College students With Money owed and Regrets”
ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education | 1/7/25
“Evaluation: Lawmakers appear decided to (actually) kill DEI on campus”
Idaho Education News | 1/16/25
“UT-Dallas college students launch various newspaper after conflict with administration”
The Texas Tribune | 2/7/25
“A college, a rural city and their battle to outlive Trump’s warfare on increased training”
Capital News Illinois | 3/27/25
“Columbia College Pays Trump Tens of millions Of {Dollars} A 12 months”
Forbes | 4/17/25
“Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, Faculty College students Race to Scrub Op-Eds”
The Wall Street Journal | 4/23/25
“The fallout from Trump’s warfare on Harvard will lengthy outlast his presidency”
BBC | 5/31/25
“Texas’ swift give up to DOJ on undocumented pupil tuition raises questions on state-federal collusion”
The Texas Tribune | 6/9/25
“Josh Shapiro’s Quiet Marketing campaign of Affect at Penn”
The Chronicle of Higher Education | 8/21/25
“He was mocked by fellow Republicans, then helped take down Texas A&M’s president”
San Antonio Express-News | 9/26/25
Bonus: “Public information revealed”
The Retrograde, the student-run various newspaper on the College of Texas at Dallas | 1/21/25
