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Ira Porter

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ira Porter

    How colleges are responding to Trump administration’s ‘call to action’ (opens the original)

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    The federal government wants U.S. colleges to publicly respond to a list of questions about sensitive issues in higher education by year’s end. Two months after the Department of Education called on colleges and universities to publicly state their commitment to principles the Trump administration accuses them of abandoning, a pair of major state university systems have complied, while many more institutions remain wary. Even that limited response is vastly different from the uniform rejection f

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Ira Porter

    Graduate earnings could determine future of some programs (opens the original)

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    Colleges could lose access to federal student loans if their graduates don’t make more money than someone without the degree. Bailey Pennington worked as an assistant during her first six months out of cosmetology school, learning the business before opening her own shop styling hair outside Detroit. She spent much of her first two years trying to build up her client list. While Ms. Pennington now has a successful business, she knows earnings in her profession can fluctuate, especially early on.

  3. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Ira Porter

    Setting students up to succeed? Why Michigan is ditching first-semester grades. (opens the original)

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    Jibreel Rehman took a chance on a new subject in college when he first got to the University of Michigan as a freshman two years ago: discrete mathematics, a computer science course that he didn’t have to take as a new student. “I’ve never taken a class like it before,” says the junior, a biochemistry major with his eyes set on medical school. “I think now, understanding how a college course works, if I took it now it wouldn’t have been as difficult for me.” But at that time, it was. So much so

  4. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Ira Porter

    As financial outlook darkens, colleges cut staff, programs ahead of new school year (opens the original)

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    Howard University’s move to disenroll some 500 first-year students who had not met a tuition payment deadline weeks before the start of the fall semester is bringing renewed attention to colleges’ financial challenges and the decisions being taken to address them. Universities are facing a looming drop in enrollment due to declining birth rates, along with a decline in federal funding and the loss of many full-tuition-paying foreign students who are struggling to get visas. In response, they are

  5. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Ira Porter

    Finish degrees for less: Schools overseas pitch US community college students (opens the original)

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    Unlike her friends and classmates, Sloan Hull didn’t want to attend a four-year college after high school. She knew she wanted to be a chef and chose Orange Coast College, a public community college near Los Angeles, for its culinary arts associate degree. She graduated in December, and had planned to transfer to a top U.S. culinary school, until she realized the school would not accept her transfer credits, meaning she faced four years of about $40,000 annual tuition. The Transfer Abroad Networ

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