Sara Weissman is a journalist at Inside Higher Ed. She covers a diverse range of topics within education, focusing on higher education, educational policy, and issues of accessibility, civil rights, and diversity and inclusion. Her work has also been featured in RealClear Education, Middle East Forum, and Times Higher Education.
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Latinos are expected to make up the majority of new workers in five years, but their degree attainment lags behind what employers will need, according
For decades, the Office for Civil Rights investigated whether educational institutions' policies disparately impacted minority groups in discriminatory ways. Not anymore.
As states work to implement the new policy, only a trickle of programs have qualified. But experts say it's too early to tell Workforce Pell's full impact.
By: Sara Weissman
Starting in fall 2027, students need to meet a set of academic requirements to get free meals, housing help and other supports. College leaders say the move will increase completion rates. But basic needs experts are worried.
By: Sara Weissman
A federal judge sided with the Department of Justice on Friday against an Illinois law that allows eligible undocumented students to pay in-state tuition.
By: Sara Weissman
The state's tuition waiver program for Native American students has been touted as a success. But Nevada higher ed system leaders say state funding hasn't kept up with the demand for the program.
The historically Black university is barring students from wearing bonnets or du-rags in classes or the campus dining hall. The move has polarized opinions on and off campus.
A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.
The U.S. Department of Education approved its first Workforce Pell program, for training emergency medical technicians at Iowa Central Community College, according to a Tuesday announcement.
By: Sara Weissman
The University of Minnesota agreed to pay Holocaust studies scholar Raz Segal $250,000 as part of a settlement for rescinding his hire as head of the university's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
