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A federal judge tossed out the National Science Foundation’s policy capping reimbursements for costs indirectly related to research, finding “severe” deficiencies in the agency’s reasoning for the plan as well as “errors of law,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

Arizona State University President Michael Crow is proud that his school is home to more international students — about 17,000 — than any other public institution in the US, Bloomberg reports.

A coalition of 10 heavyweight higher-ed organizations is proposing to Congress an alternative to the research-spending cap the Trump administration has been seeking to impose. The new model would overhaul the federal system of reimbursing universities for indirect costs incurred for their research, which has been in place since World War II, the Chronicle of…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a hearing Tuesday faced tough questions from Senate appropriators, including some from his own party, over proposed cuts to biomedical research, the agency’s reorganization efforts and changes to local health grants, Roll Call reports.

Under a new accountability measure recently proposed as part of a larger House budget bill, colleges would have to pay millions of dollars each year to reimburse the government for their students’ unpaid loans, Inside Higher Ed reports.

A coalition of universities and trade groups is suing the National Science Foundation over the independent federal agency’s plan to cap higher education institutions’ indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent, Inside Higher Ed reports.

Groups representing a vast range of colleges and universities joined one of the country’s foremost Jewish groups on Tuesday to urge the Trump administration to change how it is trying to combat campus antisemitism, the New York Times reports.

The turmoil at the National Science Foundation has deepened in the past two weeks, the result of several actions that threaten the agency’s budget, leadership and mission, Michael Neitzel writes in Forbes.

President Donald Trump wants to end funding for TRIO, Federal Work-Study and other grant programs that support students on campus as part of a broader plan to cut $163 billion in nondefense programs, Inside Higher Ed reports.

“President Donald Trump’s administration is making drastic budget cuts and ideologically driven priority changes at the National Science Foundation in the name of saving taxpayers money and rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But higher education leaders warn the plans will sabotage the work of the independent 75-year-old federal agency, which sends billions to…