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The U.S. Department of Education has redefined which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” and that new definition excludes many nursing programs — including MSN/DNP and advanced practice...
The U.S. Department of Education, implementing parts of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), has proposed and begun to apply a narrowed definition of “professional” degrees that removes multip...
Federal documents and contemporary reporting show that the U.S. Department of Education’s long-standing regulatory definition of “professional degree” (dating to the 1960s) did not explicitly list nur...
Coverage shows President Trump and his administration are pushing to dismantle or greatly shrink the U.S. Department of Education and to return many responsibilities to states and other federal agenci...
The Department of Education in 2025 removed nursing from its list of programs counted as “professional degree” programs for certain loan-eligibility and aggregate loan‑limit purposes; the department s...
Accreditation of professional degree programs in the U.S. is done through two, often overlapping tracks: institutional (regional or national) accreditation that judges an institution’s overall quality...
The available reporting shows the U.S. Department of Education, under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” has changed which graduate programs it designates as “professional degrees,...
Federal rulemaking in late 2025 by the U.S. Department of Education proposes a new definition of “professional degree” that, according to multiple nursing organizations, would exclude many graduate nu...
Turning Point USA has been the center of multiple high‑profile controversies in 2025 involving campus protests, federal reviews and state partnership disputes; the U.S. Department of Education and Jus...
As of 2025, available evidence does not support a definitive, nationwide claim that either ; studies and federal data cited by analysts show correlations between partisan control, funding, and outcome...
As of 20 Nov 2025, the U.S. Department of Education — implementing provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — proposed a narrowed regulatory definition of “professional degree” that would ...
A “professional degree” in current U.S. policy is primarily an administrative label the Department of Education uses to decide which graduate programs qualify for higher federal loan limits, not an ac...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA), founded by the late Charlie Kirk, has been the center of repeated campus and community controversies in 2025 — most recently culminating in a fraught November 10 Berkeley st...
Coverage from multiple outlets shows the U.S. Department of Education, under President Donald Trump’s administration and its “One Big Beautiful Bill” implementation, moved to exclude nursing (MSN, DNP...
Teachers face a mix of state-level statutory changes (pay raises, discipline rules, contract and pension tweaks) and a major federal reorganization that is shifting Education Department functions to o...
Claims that Ilhan Omar was not born in the United States center on two threads: (a) she is widely reported as Somalia‑born and became a U.S. citizen later, and (b) long‑running, unproven allegations t...
When professional degrees have been de‑emphasized or reclassified, institutions, employers and governments have leaned on a patchwork of alternative credential models — microcredentials, digital badge...
President Trump has repeatedly said he wants to close or dramatically shrink the U.S. Department of Education and “return” much authority to states; he framed this as ending “heavy‑handed federal inte...
The U.S. Department of Education’s recent regulatory change narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” and multiple outlets report that nursing (including MSN and DNP programs) w...
Federal and local reporting shows Turning Point USA chapters were at the center of multiple campus controversies and at least one formal federal review in 2025: the U.S. Department of Education opened...