Grassroots school chief group resists anti-DEI laws

“Chaos is the purpose,” Mike Gavin, president of Delta School in Michigan, informed a Zoom room full of upper ed professionals on a January afternoon. “These exterior forces are attempting to trigger chaos to distract us from our mission.” By “chaos” he meant the onslaught of anti-DEI laws sweeping the nation—state legal guidelines requiring universities…

Home Republicans advance laws to dam Title IX regs

Republicans in Congress, who’ve loathed President Biden’s determination to increase protections for LGBTQ+ college students within the new Title IX rule because it was rolled out, took the subsequent step Thursday to overturn the rule—establishing a possible conflict with the Senate and the White Home. On a party-line vote, the Home Training and Workforce Committee…

Brief-term Pell laws proposed as NDAA modification

Bipartisan laws to broaden the Pell Grant to workforce coaching applications that run between eight and 14 weeks may transfer ahead this week, months after the invoice’s sponsors pulled it off the Home ground on the final minute earlier than a vote. Now sponsors of the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act are attempting to connect the…