Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
@jbeowulf.bsky.social
Investigating predatory colleges and talking federal higher ed policy for @NewAmerica.org. Formerly of @insidehighered.com and Higher Ed Dive. Signal: jbeowulf.03 (he/him)
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This was such a good panel, am eager for the recording bc I could only make the 1st half. Highly encourage others to listen when it’s ready!
Missed it? The full recording will be published to our event page soon!
Bridging the Gaps in Disability Policy
Join for a discussion of the real-world challenges and practical solutions for creating more cohesive, disability-informed policy.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This was such a good panel, am eager for the recording bc I could only make the 1st half. Highly encourage others to listen when it’s ready!
My latest for @educationwork.newamerica.org: My investigation with @antoinetteflores.bsky.social into how NACCAS, a beauty school accreditor, allows colleges with violations to keep accessing federal aid. Many fail to disclose sanctions to students.
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Cosmetology Without Accountability: Failures of a Beauty School Accreditor
Accreditation is a system built to protect students and taxpayers, but NACCAS has turned it into a shield for failing beauty schools.
www.newamerica.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My latest for @educationwork.newamerica.org: My investigation with @antoinetteflores.bsky.social into how NACCAS, a beauty school accreditor, allows colleges with violations to keep accessing federal aid. Many fail to disclose sanctions to students.
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
🔗 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Trump's ED Department has punished Harvard with heightened cash monitoring, an oversight tool for financially shaky colleges.
But as ED squeezes Harvard, it’s letting unstable colleges slide off HCM—leaving students & taxpayers unprotected:
My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
But as ED squeezes Harvard, it’s letting unstable colleges slide off HCM—leaving students & taxpayers unprotected:
My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Heightened Cash Monitoring Weaponized: Failing Schools Skirt Scrutiny, Harvard Takes the Blow
The Trump Administration is twisting a longstanding oversight tool for political gain.
www.newamerica.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Trump's ED Department has punished Harvard with heightened cash monitoring, an oversight tool for financially shaky colleges.
But as ED squeezes Harvard, it’s letting unstable colleges slide off HCM—leaving students & taxpayers unprotected:
My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
But as ED squeezes Harvard, it’s letting unstable colleges slide off HCM—leaving students & taxpayers unprotected:
My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
I went to my first SHEEO policy conference last week!
A highlight was presenting New America’s work on cosmetology schools, which shows many students earn less than high school grads, while industry lobbying keeps licensure strict and stifles new pathways.
Read 👉 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
A highlight was presenting New America’s work on cosmetology schools, which shows many students earn less than high school grads, while industry lobbying keeps licensure strict and stifles new pathways.
Read 👉 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
August 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I went to my first SHEEO policy conference last week!
A highlight was presenting New America’s work on cosmetology schools, which shows many students earn less than high school grads, while industry lobbying keeps licensure strict and stifles new pathways.
Read 👉 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
A highlight was presenting New America’s work on cosmetology schools, which shows many students earn less than high school grads, while industry lobbying keeps licensure strict and stifles new pathways.
Read 👉 www.newamerica.org/education-po...
In an unsurprising display of hypocrisy, the Trump administration, which has been deeply critical of student loan forgiveness, is now offering to forgive student loans. As incentive to join ICE. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07...
DHS Launches ‘Defend the Homeland’ Nationwide to Recruit Patriots to Join ICE Law Enforcement And Remove Worst of the Worst from U.S. | Homeland Security
Murderers, rapists, terrorists, and child pedophiles—ICE is recruiting patriotic, brave Americans to remove these criminal illegal aliens from America’s streets
www.dhs.gov
July 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In an unsurprising display of hypocrisy, the Trump administration, which has been deeply critical of student loan forgiveness, is now offering to forgive student loans. As incentive to join ICE. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07...
Ohio just cracked down on online program managers, or OPMs, shadowy third-party recruiters and program builders. Guardrails like the ones Ohio instituted can help stop abuses.
A great breakdown from the Century Foundation: tcf.org/content/comm...
A great breakdown from the Century Foundation: tcf.org/content/comm...
Ohio Takes Action to Protect Students by Placing Guardrails on Online Program Managers
On June 30, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law House Bill 96, a bill that included a provision to regulate the use of online program managers
tcf.org
July 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Ohio just cracked down on online program managers, or OPMs, shadowy third-party recruiters and program builders. Guardrails like the ones Ohio instituted can help stop abuses.
A great breakdown from the Century Foundation: tcf.org/content/comm...
A great breakdown from the Century Foundation: tcf.org/content/comm...
Today, I’m helping break down how the Big Beautiful Bill affects higher education finance and students’ ability to afford college. Join us today at 3 ET virtually ⤵️
July 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today, I’m helping break down how the Big Beautiful Bill affects higher education finance and students’ ability to afford college. Join us today at 3 ET virtually ⤵️
Just because you wrote it down does not make it so. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
July 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Just because you wrote it down does not make it so. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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🚨New publication alert!
We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.
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🚨New publication alert!
We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Ousted from Opportunity: Eviction's Adverse Impact on Parenting College Students
New America partnered with the Eviction Lab to understand how eviction affects parents who are attending college while caring for children—and found it likely leads to severe negative consequences.
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June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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🚨New publication alert!
We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
🚨New publication alert!
We just published a brief on what happens to parenting students' chances of success in college when they are threatened with eviction. The results are devastating. I have never cried when writing up research before. I did this time.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Two big takeaways from my new piece today.
One, the Trump administration is trying to strong-arm an accreditor into doing its political bidding. Two, Columbia’s accredition isn’t in real jeopardy if the proper processes are followed. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
One, the Trump administration is trying to strong-arm an accreditor into doing its political bidding. Two, Columbia’s accredition isn’t in real jeopardy if the proper processes are followed. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
The Trump Administration Is Wielding Accreditation as Political Weapon Against Columbia University
The administration's actions threaten the entire integrity of the accreditor system, which is supposed to be insulated from political pressures.
www.newamerica.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Two big takeaways from my new piece today.
One, the Trump administration is trying to strong-arm an accreditor into doing its political bidding. Two, Columbia’s accredition isn’t in real jeopardy if the proper processes are followed. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
One, the Trump administration is trying to strong-arm an accreditor into doing its political bidding. Two, Columbia’s accredition isn’t in real jeopardy if the proper processes are followed. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Mind you, a GOP priority (allegedly?) is rooting out foreign influence in American colleges, and donations from Qatar have come under scrutiny before. But Republicans are fine Qatari officials just giving the president a $400M+ plane, I guess.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Trump’s Bureaucratic Purge Renders GOP’s College Foreign Gift Bill Unenforceable
The U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has been cut by about half, would need to enforce the legislation.
www.newamerica.org
May 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Mind you, a GOP priority (allegedly?) is rooting out foreign influence in American colleges, and donations from Qatar have come under scrutiny before. But Republicans are fine Qatari officials just giving the president a $400M+ plane, I guess.
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?
A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
Your Friday reading, besides the Fetterman profile, is this explanation of Trump’s accreditation policies from me and @wesleywhistle.bsky.social. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Trump's Accreditation Guidance Sidesteps Core Higher Ed Safeguards
New Education Department policies may disadvantage students and taxpayers by inviting fraudsters into the accreditation system.
www.newamerica.org
May 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Your Friday reading, besides the Fetterman profile, is this explanation of Trump’s accreditation policies from me and @wesleywhistle.bsky.social. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
A few new accreditors want federal recognition.
Their leaders are tied to predatory for-profit colleges, some of which defrauded students. My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Their leaders are tied to predatory for-profit colleges, some of which defrauded students. My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Meet the Would-Be Accreditors Tied to Predatory For-Profit Colleges
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for potentially exploitative accreditors to enter the federal financial aid system.
www.newamerica.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A few new accreditors want federal recognition.
Their leaders are tied to predatory for-profit colleges, some of which defrauded students. My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Their leaders are tied to predatory for-profit colleges, some of which defrauded students. My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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🚨 How are DOGE cuts impacting your community? Under Musk's leadership, DOGE has implemented sweeping reductions in grants, contracts, and leases. Here’s a new tool I built that identifies grant and lease terminations by congressional district.
April 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 How are DOGE cuts impacting your community? Under Musk's leadership, DOGE has implemented sweeping reductions in grants, contracts, and leases. Here’s a new tool I built that identifies grant and lease terminations by congressional district.
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The president's mass layoffs strategy is backfiring—and sabotaging the priorities of his own party.
↘️ Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social explains how this "government paralysis" will make implementing new legislation "likely impossible."
↘️ Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social explains how this "government paralysis" will make implementing new legislation "likely impossible."
Trump’s Bureaucratic Purge Renders GOP’s College Foreign Gift Bill Unenforceable
The U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has been cut by about half, would need to enforce the legislation.
www.newamerica.org
April 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The president's mass layoffs strategy is backfiring—and sabotaging the priorities of his own party.
↘️ Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social explains how this "government paralysis" will make implementing new legislation "likely impossible."
↘️ Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social explains how this "government paralysis" will make implementing new legislation "likely impossible."
Tufts has issued a statement saying the graduate student who ICE agents abducted last month did not have a record that would warrant her arrest, and that a pro-Palestine essay she wrote did not violate university policy.
www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
April 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Tufts has issued a statement saying the graduate student who ICE agents abducted last month did not have a record that would warrant her arrest, and that a pro-Palestine essay she wrote did not violate university policy.
www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
Trump's Education Department has reportedly frozen half of Princeton's federal funding after its president wrote a public essay criticizing the administration's attack on higher education. This is government retaliation, pure and simple. From @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/near...
Nearly Half of Princeton U.’s Federal Funding Has Reportedly Been Frozen by the Trump Administration
The university appears to be the next target in a campaign to go after higher education for allegedly failing to suppress campus antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Trump's Education Department has reportedly frozen half of Princeton's federal funding after its president wrote a public essay criticizing the administration's attack on higher education. This is government retaliation, pure and simple. From @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/near...
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So @garrettshanley.bsky.social, the Univ of Florida student journalist who broke the Ben Sasse scandal wide open, has another banger today about Florida's surgeon general, who has almost nothing to show for his six-figure, second job as a tenured prof at UF
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So @garrettshanley.bsky.social, the Univ of Florida student journalist who broke the Ben Sasse scandal wide open, has another banger today about Florida's surgeon general, who has almost nothing to show for his six-figure, second job as a tenured prof at UF
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
Last week, the House passed a GOP bill that would beef up colleges’ mandates to report foreign gifts and contracts to the Education Department. Except there’s a problem — Trump and DOGE have fired staff in the department who would help carry out the legislation. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Trump’s Bureaucratic Purge Renders GOP’s College Foreign Gift Bill Unenforceable
The U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has been cut by about half, would need to enforce the legislation.
www.newamerica.org
April 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Last week, the House passed a GOP bill that would beef up colleges’ mandates to report foreign gifts and contracts to the Education Department. Except there’s a problem — Trump and DOGE have fired staff in the department who would help carry out the legislation. www.newamerica.org/education-po...
A federal judge has ruled against the Texas A&M University System board for banning drag shows on campuses. The “Draggieland” event, which prompted the board to cancel drag shows, can proceed as planned this week.
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March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A federal judge has ruled against the Texas A&M University System board for banning drag shows on campuses. The “Draggieland” event, which prompted the board to cancel drag shows, can proceed as planned this week.
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President Trump just claimed during his remarks that everyone supports his idea to shut down the Education Department. That's wrong. Most Americans want the Education Department to stay open, as my colleagues just wrote about: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Trump’s Proposal to Dismantle the Education Department Unpopular Among Americans
New poll findings show Trump's proposal for education unpopular among Americans.
www.newamerica.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
President Trump just claimed during his remarks that everyone supports his idea to shut down the Education Department. That's wrong. Most Americans want the Education Department to stay open, as my colleagues just wrote about: www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.
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A political appointee recently demanded that @georgetownlaw.bsky.social stop teaching about diversity.
🎓 Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social implores #HigherEd institutions to stand firm against authoritarian actors—and ignore their illegal orders.
🎓 Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social implores #HigherEd institutions to stand firm against authoritarian actors—and ignore their illegal orders.
U.S. Colleges Should Not Abandon Their Principles
Institutions have the opportunity to be defenders of diversity efforts and academic freedom as the Trump administration assails those values.
www.newamerica.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A political appointee recently demanded that @georgetownlaw.bsky.social stop teaching about diversity.
🎓 Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social implores #HigherEd institutions to stand firm against authoritarian actors—and ignore their illegal orders.
🎓 Here, our investigator @jbeowulf.bsky.social implores #HigherEd institutions to stand firm against authoritarian actors—and ignore their illegal orders.
Senator, I am one of 700,000 DC residents who would feel the pain of a $1B cut that this CR would create. & this is DC’s budget, largely paid for with locals’ tax dollars, not federal money. Passing the CR would hurt the district and give new leeway to Trump-Musk and their razing of the government.
The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics.
Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession.
I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.
Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession.
I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.
March 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Senator, I am one of 700,000 DC residents who would feel the pain of a $1B cut that this CR would create. & this is DC’s budget, largely paid for with locals’ tax dollars, not federal money. Passing the CR would hurt the district and give new leeway to Trump-Musk and their razing of the government.