“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the federal government said Monday that they had reached a settlement to close 19 federal inquiries. The agreement made UNC the latest school to align itself formally with the Trump administration’s vision for higher education,” the New York Times reports.

“The university, which did not acknowledge wrongdoing, will not pay any money in connection with the agreement, setting it apart from schools that pledged to shell out tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. But it agreed to abide by the Trump administration’s views on matters like admissions; diversity, equity and inclusion; and the punishment of student groups for actions perceived as antisemitic.”

“Trump administration officials are preparing to impose financial penalties on millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year,” the Washington Sun reports.

“The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, three of the sources said, possibly as soon as November. The sources said those plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections.”

“The Trump administration’s mounting investigations and attacks on diversity initiatives have left medical schools facing a tough choice as they consider how to select incoming classes: stick with policies they see as core to their mission or risk critical federal funding,” the Washington Post reports.

“The legal landscape is unresolved, leaving some schools to weigh potential consequences in a high-profile, high-stakes fight.”

“The Trump administration is opening a new front in its campaign to remake higher education: threatening the American Bar Association’s power to accredit law schools,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The action escalates the Trump administration’s long-running feud with the nation’s premier legal organization, which it has accused of promoting a progressive agenda, including pushing law schools to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion policies.”

“The Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism on Ivy League campuses pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuse, according to a whistleblower complaint made public Tuesday,” the Washington Post reports.

“The complaint — filed by Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department’s civil rights division who said she was involuntarily detailed to work on the probes last year — alleged that the outcomes of investigations into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were ‘predetermined without regard to the evidence’ in a ‘politically mandated effort’ to suspend their government funding and grab headlines.”

CBS News: Former DOJ lawyer alleges government improperly targeted Ivy League schools.

“President Donald Trump has a new legislative obsession: College sports,” Semafor reports.

“The president is getting closely involved in efforts to pass the Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill. He’s spent the last week whipping senators to support it and even enlisted former Alabama football coach Nick Saban to dial up undecided lawmakers.”

“Trump has become a fan-in-chief during his second term, attending the Super Bowl, the U.S. Open tennis finals, and the FIFA World Cup Finals, among other events. But his latest effort is bigger than the athletic focus that helped him appeal to younger voters in 2024 — it’s a legacy play that would put his stamp on the multibillion-dollar college sports economy.”

“The Trump administration plans to revamp a federally funded career website that lists hundreds of college scholarships for women and students of color to align it with the president’s mission to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs,” the Washington Post reports.

“The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would move forward with a plan to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, in what advocates fear is a push to gut a 61-year-old antipoverty program aimed at helping the nation’s most impoverished young children,” the New York Times reports.

“The Trump administration is preparing a major rollback of federal requirements for Head Start, a change that supporters of the child care program fear could gut its longstanding antipoverty mission,” the New York Times reports.

“The proposed changes would remove most of Head Start’s 133 pages of requirements for math and literacy curriculums, class sizes, medical screenings, home visits and even a requirement that children brush their teeth after meals.”

“The Trump administration’s bid to dismantle the Education Department was rebuked on Thursday by the Senate education committee, which approved a bipartisan bill that would block the executive branch from gutting the agency,” the New York Times reports.

“The legislation faces a long road to becoming law. Competing legislation in the House would instead codify many of the administration’s actions, and President Trump is unlikely to sign into law a measure that directly undermines his policy agenda.”

Politico: Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump’s Education Department breakup.