Sep 11, 2025
dotEDU is back for Season 7 with an examination of President Trump's demand for admissions data by race and sex and what that means for campuses. Hosts Mushtaq Gunja, Jon Fansmith, and Sarah Spreitzer—joined by ACE’s Hiro Okahana—explain what’s being requested, what’s lawful, and the need to avoid misleading metrics and protect student privacy. Plus: updates on international students, Harvard’s funding-freeze case, and the outlook on appropriations for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
Trump Memo on Admissions Data
Ensuring Transparency in Higher Education Admission
The White House | August 7, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Directs National Center
for Education Statistics to Collect Universities’ Data on Race
Discrimination in Admissions
U.S Department of Education | August 7, 2025
Trump Administration Orders Colleges to Submit New Admissions
Data
ACE | August 11, 2025
Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System (IPEDS)
IPEDS
Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect
college admissions data
The Hechinger Report | August 18, 2025
Trump’s college admissions changes could backfire
Politico | August 15, 2025
Higher Education & The Trump Administration
ACE
International Students
DHS Proposal to Replace Duration of Status
NAFSA | September 9, 2025
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of
Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange
Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information
Media
Federal Register | August 28, 2025
Letter
to Secretary Rubio Urging Exemption of F/J/M Visas from Travel Ban
(PDF)
ACE
Harvard Ruling
Federal Court Backs Harvard in Ruling, Echoing Concerns Raised in
ACE Brief
ACE | September 5, 2025
FY 2026 Appropriations
House Bill Preserves Pell, Slashes Other Student Aid
Programs
ACE | September 5, 2025
Senate Appropriators Reject Trump’s Proposed Pell Grant and NIH
Cuts
ACE | August 4, 2025
A Brief Guide to the Federal Budget and Appropriations
Process
ACE