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Key Points Nearly 1,800 institutions (or 38.7%) are missing at least one required Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment (FVT/GE) file from the 2024 and 2025 reporting cycles, according to the Department of Education’s Aug. 28 tracking update. Of those, 612 schools have submitted nothing at all. Delinquent schools now have a final deadline of Jan. 15, 2027, to submit missing data, with no further extensions. ED says it may pursue fines and sanctions against schools that don’t comply, and incomplete reporting could raise questions about a school’s ability to keep participating in federal aid programs. Nearly 1,800 colleges and…

High-yield savings account rates held steady all the way through August. With the Fed holding rates steady, banks are using this opportunity to capture savers.As of August 31, 2026, some online banks are still offering interest rates up to 4.15% APY. This is still much better than the average of 0.38% APY, according to the FDIC.Banks and credit unions are constantly adjusting their annual percentage yields (APYs) as markets react to Federal Reserve policy and inflation data, so staying up to date can make a real difference. Here’s where the best savings rates stand today — and what you should…

The Justice Department on August 27 filed complaints against Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington, challenging state laws that allow undocumented students pay in-state tuition and, in some cases, receive state financial aid. The four lawsuits bring the administration’s campaign to 21 states, up from the 12 we counted when DOJ sued Massachusetts and Rhode Island in June. The legal theory is that federal statutes bar states from giving residency-based higher education benefits to immigrants not lawfully present unless every U.S. citizen gets the same benefit regardless of where they live. Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. said the…

Michigan high school seniors can now get admitted to college without applying. The Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) opened its new MI College Match portal on Aug. 26, 2026, and 21 public and private colleges have signed on to send direct admission offers to students who fill out a free profile. Students upload a transcript, answer a few questions about their interests and preferences, and wait for offers to arrive. There are no essays, no letters of recommendation, and no application fees. The first deadline is September 21. Students who complete a profile by then will receive their first round…

Key Points Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to build a statewide framework for three-year bachelor’s degrees, with recommendations due December 31, 2026. Reducing a year off a degree removes about a quarter of the cost. That’s close to $26,000 in savings at a Texas public university before counting an extra year of earnings. Texas public colleges already have accreditor sign-off for 90-credit degrees in certain fields, so the working group’s real decisions are which majors qualify and how faculty pushback gets handled. Texas Governor Greg Abbott on August 26 directed the Texas Higher Education…

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced this week that George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences intentionally discriminated based on race when selecting its 2024 and 2025 incoming classes. It is the second medical school the department has found in violation this summer, following its June finding against UC Davis School of Medicine. According to the DOJ, GW Med told applicants after the Supreme Court’s 2023 Students for Fair Admissions ruling that it would no longer consider race from application check-boxes. Investigators say the school then used essay prompts designed to draw out applicants’ racial or ethnic…

The Department of War has ordered 30 U.S. colleges and universities to immediately review their academic, financial, and research collaborations with foreign entities of concern. The notifications, issued by the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, target active ties to institutions on the Department’s Section 1286 list and to organizations linked to rebranded Confucius Institutes. It’s the latest move in a year that has already seen federal grants frozen, cut, and litigated across higher education. To stay eligible for future federal research funding, the notified schools must audit every identified foreign collaboration, assess exposure of…

Key Points Nine Senate Democrats, led by Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley, are demanding MOHELA explain false delinquency notices sent to borrowers who were current on their loans. One documented notice showed a “total amount due” over $10,000 and senators want to know how many borrowers paid money they never owed. MOHELA has until September 10, 2026 to answer nine questions about the scope, cause, and fix. Nine Senate Democrats want to know why MOHELA told student loan borrowers they were months behind on payments when they weren’t. In a letter sent August 27 (PDF File) to MOHELA CEO Scott…

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Tell me if this sounds familiar. You open ChatGPT, ask it something real, and get back an answer that’s technically fine and completely useless. Meanwhile someone in your call group swears the same tool saves them an hour a day. Here’s the thing. That person almost certainly isn’t smarter than you and isn’t doing anything technical. They just spent ten minutes setting the thing up before they started typing, and you didn’t. It’s not a skill gap. It’s a setup gap. And you close it once. The whole point is to stop re-explaining yourself every single time you open a…