Katherine Knott 🤷‍♀️(on bsky.social)

~ Some Personal News ~ I’m an editor now! The news editor at @insidehighered, to be specific. I love reporting but excited about this new adventure. (And I’ll still be reporting here and there, because as you know, old habits die screaming.)

BREAKING: The Supreme Court *allows* the Trump administration to move forward with large-scale layoffs at the Department of Education, where the government wants to fire ~50% of the workforce to “streamline” the agency. Liberals dissent. #SCOTUS documentcloud.org/documents/2599…

Well, the bill is one step away from becoming law. It includes the most significant changes to higher ed policy in decades. We got some tables for you in this story, breaking down the bill insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

Indiana Public Universities to ‘Voluntarily’ End 19% of Degrees insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

Why @UVA President’s Resignation Could Be a ‘Watershed Moment’ Ousting James Ryan is a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s war against higher ed and sends a chilling message to other university leaders, experts say. bit.ly/3Gry46l

NEW and BREAKING: UVA's president has resigned in face of demands by Trump admin/DOJ that he step down. Hundreds of millions of dollars in fed funding for school were on the line. Major Trump victory in Trump v. Higher Ed w/@MichaelCBender nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/…

From: "NIH is not, in any way, limiting access to scientific publications" To: “All contracts w/Springer Nature are terminated or no longer active. Precious taxpayer dollars should be not be [sic] used on unused subscriptions to junk science” In 1 day insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak…

Here are the initial details on the Commission for Public Higher Education, the new accreditor announced by @GovRonDeSantis today in a partnership with five other university systems. insidehighered.com/news/governanc…

Roth: “Your complaints at the Heterodox conferences for almost 10 years now—about being too woke, about not having enough jobs for white people, about too many women in the academy—have found resonance with an authoritarian push to control our spaces." insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

Federal Cuts Put Institutional Aid at Risk As colleges face mounting financial challenges, institutional aid budgets could take a significant hit, passing costs to students and undermining promising access initiatives. bit.ly/44uebES

Half the presidents of Florida’s 12 public universities now have political connection to DeSantis or the GOP. More from @byJoshMoody: insidehighered.com/news/governanc…

Academic Freedom Was Already Limited at U.S. Service Academies. Then Came Trump. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

How Universities Would Overhaul Research Funding Two new models are geared toward creating a more transparent and accountable system to track costs indirectly related to research. bit.ly/441cGwE

The state of Tennessee and the group Students for Fair Admissions sued the federal government, arguing Hispanic-serving institutions—as currently defined—are unconstitutional. insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

As expected, Senate HELP Republicans say no to risk-sharing and yes to a plan that looks a lot like gainful employment. More in @JessicaEBlake's short story on the draft legislation that dropped tonight insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak…

ICYMI | Last month, Peter Hans, president of the @unc_system, casually dropped a bombshell announcement that the system and others were in talks to launch a new accreditor. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/45OqMUt

Texas presidents could end up appointing half of a faculty senate's members under SB 37 “Shared governance structures may not be used to obstruct, delay, or undermine necessary institutional reforms or serve as a mechanism for advancing ideological or political agendas,” it says