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Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social · 22d

This was such a good panel, am eager for the recording bc I could only make the 1st half. Highly encourage others to listen when it’s ready!

Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · 22d

Missed it? The full recording will be published to our event page soon!

Bridging the Gaps in Disability Policy

Join for a discussion of the real-world challenges and practical solutions for creating more cohesive, disability-informed policy.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · 21d

My latest for @educationwork.newamerica.org: My investigation with @antoinetteflores.bsky.social into how NACCAS, a beauty school accreditor, allows colleges with violations to keep accessing federal aid. Many fail to disclose sanctions to students.
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Cosmetology Without Accountability: Failures of a Beauty School Accreditor

Accreditation is a system built to protect students and taxpayers, but NACCAS has turned it into a shield for failing beauty schools.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Sep 25

Trump's ED Department has punished Harvard with heightened cash monitoring, an oversight tool for financially shaky colleges.

But as ED squeezes Harvard, it’s letting unstable colleges slide off HCM—leaving students & taxpayers unprotected:

My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Heightened Cash Monitoring Weaponized: Failing Schools Skirt Scrutiny, Harvard Takes the Blow

The Trump Administration is twisting a longstanding oversight tool for political gain.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Aug 22

I went to my first SHEEO policy conference last week!

A highlight was presenting New America’s work on cosmetology schools, which shows many students earn less than high school grads, while industry lobbying keeps licensure strict and stifles new pathways.

Read 👉 www.newamerica.org/education-po...

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Jul 30

In an unsurprising display of hypocrisy, the Trump administration, which has been deeply critical of student loan forgiveness, is now offering to forgive student loans. As incentive to join ICE. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07...

DHS Launches ‘Defend the Homeland’ Nationwide to Recruit Patriots to Join ICE Law Enforcement And Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S. | Homeland Security

Murderers, rapists, terrorists, and child pedophiles—ICE is recruiting patriotic, brave Americans to remove these criminal illegal aliens from America’s streets

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ohio just cracked down on online program managers, or OPMs, shadowy third-party recruiters and program builders. Guardrails like the ones Ohio instituted can help stop abuses.

A great breakdown from the Century Foundation: tcf.org/content/comm...

Ohio Takes Action to Protect Students by Placing Guardrails on Online Program Managers

On June 30, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law House Bill 96, a bill that included a provision to regulate the use of online program managers

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today, I’m helping break down how the Big Beautiful Bill affects higher education finance and students’ ability to afford college. Join us today at 3 ET virtually ⤵️

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just because you wrote it down does not make it so. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · Jun 26

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🚨New publication alert!

We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.

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Ousted from Opportunity: Eviction's Adverse Impact on Parenting College Students

New America partnered with the Eviction Lab to understand how eviction affects parents who are attending college while caring for children—and found it likely leads to severe negative consequences.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Jun 5

Two big takeaways from my new piece today.

One, the Trump administration is trying to strong-arm an accreditor into doing its political bidding. Two, Columbia’s accredition isn’t in real jeopardy if the proper processes are followed. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

The Trump Administration Is Wielding Accreditation as Political Weapon Against Columbia University

The administration's actions threaten the entire integrity of the accreditor system, which is supposed to be insulated from political pressures.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 11

Mind you, a GOP priority (allegedly?) is rooting out foreign influence in American colleges, and donations from Qatar have come under scrutiny before. But Republicans are fine Qatari officials just giving the president a $400M+ plane, I guess.

www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Trump’s Bureaucratic Purge Renders GOP’s College Foreign Gift Bill Unenforceable

The U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has been cut by about half, would need to enforce the legislation.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 11

Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?

A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 2

It wanted Harvard to hire an auditor who would identity the departments that lacked viewpoint diversity. And if they did then they needed to “be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty,” the administration said.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 2

The Trump administration definitely wants to see more conservative voices in academe. One of the conditions it tried to impose on Harvard was “viewpoint diversity” in its hiring. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 2

The new guidance simplifies this process. Now, if the Department of Education doesn’t respond within 30 days, the switch is automatically approved—even sometimes for colleges facing sanctions like probation.

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 2

Under the Higher Education Act, colleges must show “reasonable cause” to change accreditors. Previously, this meant providing detailed documentation to prevent institutions from dodging oversight.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 2

The Trump administration has issued new guidance that significantly eases the process for colleges to switch accreditors. This move could allow institutions under scrutiny to evade accountability and continue receiving federal aid.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 2

Your Friday reading, besides the Fetterman profile, is this explanation of Trump’s accreditation policies from me and @wesleywhistle.bsky.social. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Trump's Accreditation Guidance Sidesteps Core Higher Ed Safeguards

New Education Department policies may disadvantage students and taxpayers by inviting fraudsters into the accreditation system.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks, Goldie!!

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Apr 30

A few new accreditors want federal recognition.
Their leaders are tied to predatory for-profit colleges, some of which defrauded students. My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Meet the Would-Be Accreditors Tied to Predatory For-Profit Colleges

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for potentially exploitative accreditors to enter the federal financial aid system.

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · Apr 9

🚨 How are DOGE cuts impacting your community? Under Musk's leadership, DOGE has implemented sweeping reductions in grants, contracts, and leases. Here’s a new tool I built that identifies grant and lease terminations by congressional district.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is excellent work.

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Education and Work @educationwork.newamerica.org · Apr 8

The president's mass layoffs strategy is backfiring—and sabotaging the priorities of his own party.

↘️ Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social explains how this "government paralysis" will make implementing new legislation "likely impossible."

Trump’s Bureaucratic Purge Renders GOP’s College Foreign Gift Bill Unenforceable

The U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has been cut by about half, would need to enforce the legislation.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Apr 3

Tufts has issued a statement saying the graduate student who ICE agents abducted last month did not have a record that would warrant her arrest, and that a pro-Palestine essay she wrote did not violate university policy.

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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social · Apr 1

Trump's Education Department has reportedly frozen half of Princeton's federal funding after its president wrote a public essay criticizing the administration's attack on higher education. This is government retaliation, pure and simple. From @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/near...

Nearly Half of Princeton U.’s Federal Funding Has Reportedly Been Frozen by the Trump Administration

The university appears to be the next target in a campaign to go after higher education for allegedly failing to suppress campus antisemitism.

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