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Officials told the Staff Council on Friday that the scope of layoffs will depend on how office and division leaders adjust their budgets to meet their assigned targets for the upcoming fiscal year gwhatchet.com/2025/07/23/lay…
Dozens of international students from countries affected by Trump’s travel ban are bracing for delayed returns to campus or requesting to defer their enrollment, Vice Provost for Enrollment and Student Success Jay Goff told the Staff Council Friday gwhatchet.com/2025/07/23/tru…
Why JPMorgan Is Hitting Fintechs With Stunning New Fees For Data Access on.forbes.com/6018f1IFC
Harvard President Alan Garber warned that the impact of federal policy changes like research funding cuts, threats to international students, and an increased endowment tax could cost the University up to $1 billion annually. @dhruvtkpatel reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Trump to gut the Department of Education, over the dissent of the three Democratic appointees.
Division of Student Affairs officials paused the formation of new student organizations through the 2025-26 academic year to “improve support structures” for the 500+ existing groups on campus gwhatchet.com/2025/07/11/div…
SCOOP: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship, sources say, possibly modeled on Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
GW is suspending hiring and will likely lay off staff and faculty as officials cut administrative and academic budgets for FY2026 to address financial challenges worsened by a yearslong structural deficit and federal attacks on higher education gwhatchet.com/2025/07/08/gw-…
GW is implementing a faculty and staff hiring freeze and further reducing administrative and academic unit FY26 budgets, which will likely result in faculty and staff cuts, officials announced in an email to “colleagues” Tuesday. Story tk
The death toll in Texas climbed to 47, including 15 children, as the search for the missing grew increasingly desperate after devastating flash floods. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4l6CK0C
These 26 Rich Private Colleges Just Got A Tax Cut From Republicans on.forbes.com/60134W4iF (Photo: Jim West/ZUMA Press/Newscom)
Here’s What The Senate Budget And Tax Bill Means For Colleges trib.al/mdVbLGh
In midnight deal, Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million to settle lawsuit that most experts viewed as baseless. The deal is the clearest sign yet of Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions. @BenMullin @LaurenSHirsch @grynbaum nytimes.com/2025/07/02/bus…
Senate Republicans just passed a bill that would make the most significant changes to federal student loan programs in decades. Nearly every borrower currently in repayment, as well as current and prospective students, would be impacted. Key details- forbes.com/sites/adammins…
GW news: Today is Provost Chris Bracey’s final day in office before SEAS Dean John Lach steps in as interim provost tomorrow. Bracey served in the role for four years and will take a yearlong sabbatical before returning as a GW Law faculty member @gwhatchet
Breaking: The Trump administration tells Harvard it violated federal civil rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students on.wsj.com/4l0XIOt
Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Hungary's capital as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a mass demonstration against the government rte.ie/news/2025/0628…
BREAKING: The New York Times is reporting that UVa President Jim Ryan has resigned, following pressure from the Trump administration. Story tk @cavalierdaily
For the first time in more than 40 years, men’s basketball will host the Georgetown University Hoyas this fall, GW Athletics announced Wednesday gwhatchet.com/2025/06/26/men…
GW is considering consolidating classes, cutting programs and laying off faculty and staff in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development after years of enrollment drops, according to a Monday announcement and emails sent to faculty gwhatchet.com/2025/06/24/off…