The latest news and resources from Duke Government Relations.

The DC Digest-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

  • 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

  • Higher Education Associations File Lawsuit Contesting NSF Reimbursement Rates
  • Education Department Tells Colleges to Advise Struggling Borrowers

The DC Digest-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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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