"Colleges nationwide are scrambling to adjust to the Trump administration’s overhaul of higher education as the fall semester has kicked into gear, and insiders expect many of them to fail in the process," The Washington Times reports.

..."While regional liberal arts colleges and private campuses will struggle the most with the administration’s new outcome-driven student aid policies, it remains to be seen which ones will survive."

"'Institutional responses will vary as they await more clarity and have confidence in the implementation approach,' said Melanie Storey, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. 'If postsecondary institutions are slow to change, it is in part because the system itself … is so complex.'"

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Publication Date: 9/22/2025