This week in college admissions, an anti-affirmative action group sued the Air Force Academy, the Biden Administration submitted its final proposal for student debt relief, new data shows the number of U.S. high school graduates will peak next year, and House lawmakers introduced a bill that would cut federal funding to colleges that commercially boycott Israel.
An anti-affirmative action group sued the Air Force Academy for its continued use of race-conscious admissions after the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban. Students for Fair Admissions– the same organization behind the Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill lawsuits that led to the affirmative action ban– is arguing that the Air Force Academy has no legal grounds for continuing to practice race-conscious admissions. This comes despite the Supreme Court’s tentative exception for military academies.
After being repeatedly struck down by federal courts, the Biden Administration submitted final rule proposals for student debt relief on Wednesday. However, the new agenda’s forgiveness plan only applies to about eight million borrowers, a fraction of the 43 million borrowers included under the administration’s first proposal, which was struck down last year by the Supreme Court.
After peaking in 2025, the number of U.S. high school graduates will decline more than previously projected over the next two decades. Newly released data, drawn from birth rates and nationwide secondary education enrollment data, serves as a call to policymakers, colleges, and universities to boost higher education attendance rates.
A pair of House lawmakers introduced a bill that would cut federal funding to colleges that participate in a commercial boycott of Israel. The proposed Protect Economic Freedom Act comes after the House’s Republican-led Education Committee released a scathing 325-page report in October accusing 11 high-profile colleges and universities of failing to shield Jewish students from antisemitism and making “shocking concessions” to student protestors.
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