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How a small Florida college became Trump’s blueprint to threaten higher ed in Mass. (MassLive)
Could shuttered college campuses help solve the Mass. housing crisis? (MassLive)
This isn’t Rate My Professor: Explosion in watchlists brings new threats to academics (MassLive)
Everyone is a first-generation student at this new Massachusetts college (MassLive)
Leaders sound alarm on cuts to new Mass. free community college program (MassLive)
Breaking news/Daily
Leaders sound alarm on cuts to new Mass. free community college program (MassLive)
‘Devastating’: Trump admin abruptly ends college prep program for vets (MassLive)
‘These are our friends’: Students at 11 Mass. colleges join for 1st time to counter Trump (MassLive)
MIT rejects Trump admin offer to sign a ‘compact’ for a funding edge (MassLive)
‘Utter horse crap’: What Dept. of Education layoffs mean for Mass. (MassLive)
‘The damage is so big’: How ending the Dept. of Ed. could impact Mass. (MassLive)
Eastern Nazarene College alum to purchase entire campus, likely turn it into housing (MassLive)
Central Mass. college campus seeks a buyer after being vacant 6 years (MassLive)
Two Mass. colleges in financial ‘danger’ accreditation agency finds (MassLive)
Crops grown to support diet of Somalian refugees in Mass. nearly wiped out in floods (MassLive)
How Mass. flooding is displacing unhoused people and their belongings (MassLive)
Features/Enterprise
‘An American tale’? What historians tell us about the Trump admin’s attacks on higher ed (MassLive)
This isn’t Rate My Professor: Explosion in watchlists brings new threats to academics (MassLive)
As cuts to SNAP loom, college communities prepare to be hit hard (MassLive)
Religious colleges are closing in Mass. Can they innovate to survive? (MassLive)
College majors are disappearing as academia tightens its belt (MassLive)
Trump says higher ed is too liberal. Tufts launched a center to tackle that issue (MassLive)
Parrots video calling each other? This Mass. prof uses tech to help enrich animals’ lives (MassLive)
A leader in education? Mass. was falling behind before the pandemic (MassLive)
Massachusetts education ranked No. 1, but not for all students (MassLive)
Everyone is a first-generation student at this new Massachusetts college (MassLive)
‘Bursting at the seams’: Free community college straining resources (MassLive)
Amherst 13-year-old has taught how to forage food since he was 5 (MassLive)
As demand for home share program grows, more strangers move in together (VTDigger)
Home aide shortage threatens care for developmentally disabled Arkansans (Arkansas Nonprofit News Network)
The Housing Challenges Facing People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PBS Next Avenue)
Abortion in Massachusetts: ‘I was pro-life when I had my abortion’ (MassLive)
Long-term investigative projects
How a small Florida college became Trump’s blueprint to threaten higher ed in Mass. (MassLive)
Two years after a conservative takeover, what New College lost and gained (MassLive)
What happens when a government decides to crush a university? These professors lived it (MassLive)
Could shuttered college campuses help solve the Mass. housing crisis? (MassLive)
When closed colleges become luxury housing, does that help the housing crisis? (MassLive)
Why transforming vacant college campuses into housing isn’t easy (MassLive)
Despite state support, Vermonters struggle to find housing after prison (VTDigger)