News Digest for January 29, 2025

Coverage of our QuestBridge announcement included this Lewiston Sun Journal story Bates College joins national group to help low-income students attend elite schools which also ran in the Press Herald. Locally, NewsCenter Maine aired a piece about the partnership and Maine Biz also covered. The Harvard Crimson mentioned Bates in its coverage and distribution of our Business Wire story was picked up by outlets inclluding the Inyo Register and Bakersfield Californian and likely via the Crimson’s story, reached as far as The Times of India

Higher Education Stories of Note

New York Times

Uncertainty Causes Chaos as Trump Threatens Funding Pause for Schools

Inside Higher Education

Higher Ed Alarmed by Trump’s Plan to Freeze Federal Grants

Chronicle of Higher Education

Hate Endowment Taxes? Reform the University: History shows there is nothing sacred about these big pots of money  (Essay) 

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Classroom is Not Your Living Room: The vogue for “belonging” misses the point of education

Chronicle of Higher Education

What Some Colleges Say They’ll Do if Immigration Authorities Come to Campus

Wall Street Journal

How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado (Commentary)

New York Times

Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left (Opinion)