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The DC Digest-May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
- NSF Facing Shakeup as Officials Abolish its 37 Divisions
- DOE Implements Additional Indirect Cost Caps on Some Awards
- Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications for FY2025
- Education Department Investigating UPenn Foreign Gift Reporting
- Post of the Week!
The Duke Digest-May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
- Duke to Celebrate 6,900 New Graduates During Commencement Ceremony Sunday
- Saving More Babies Through Innovation in Pediatric Heart Surgery
- Ocean Engineering Course Provides Hands-on Design Experience at the Atlantic Ocean
- And Much More…

The DC Digest-May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025
- Higher Education Associations File Lawsuit Contesting NSF Reimbursement Rates
- Education Department Tells Colleges to Advise Struggling Borrowers
The DC Digest-May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
- White House Releases “Skinny Budget” Details
- NIH Updates
- NSF Implements New Indirect Cost Rate
- Education Department Takes First Steps to Comply with Accreditation Executive Order
- GAO Says Trump Administration Ignores Watchdogs Amid 39 Funding Investigations
- DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities
- Waltz Out at NSA, Nominated for UN Ambassador
- Post of the Week!
The Duke Digest-May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
- 2025 Student Commencement Speakers: Different Backgrounds, One Special Day
- How Public Supported Studies Bring This Researcher and Patient Closer to a Cure for Alzheimer’s
- The Duke Mouse Brain Atlas Promises to Accelerate Studies of Neurological Disorders
- And Much More…

DC Digest-April 22, 2025
May 1, 2025
- NIH Halts Future Grants to Universities with DEI Programs, Israel Boycotts
- OSTP Director Gives First Remarks
- Education Department to Begin Collecting on Federal Student Loan Defaults
- Education Department to Probe Harvard Foreign Gifts Reporting
- Harvard Files Suit Against Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze
The DC Digest-April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025
- Budget Reconciliation Markup Process Begins
- Trump Administration Says UPenn Violated Title IX
- Education Department Investigating UC Berkeley Foreign Funding Sources
DC Digest-April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025
- NSF Director Resigns
- Judge Temporarily Blocks Education Department from Enforcing DEI Rules
- President Trump Signs EOs on Foreign Reporting, Accreditation
- Trump Administration Reverses Terminations of Student Visa Registrations
- Court Temporarily Blocks Administration from Revoking Legal Status of 133 International Students
- State Department Releases Reorganization Plan
- Post of the Week!
The DC Digest-April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025
- NSF Director Resigns
- Judge Temporarily Blocks Education Department from Enforcing DEI Rules
- President Trump Signs EOs on Foreign Reporting, Accreditation
- Trump Administration Reverses Terminations of Student Visa Registrations
- Court Temporarily Blocks Administration from Revoking Legal Status of 133 International Students
- State Department Releases Reorganization Plan
- Post of the Week!
The DC Digest-April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025
- NIH Halts Future Grants to Universities with DEI Programs, Israel Boycotts
- OSTP Director Gives First Remarks
- Education Department to Begin Collecting on Federal Student Loan Defaults
- Education Department to Probe Harvard Foreign Gifts Reporting
- Harvard Files Suit Against Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze