News You Might Have Missed: 8/15/25

A collection of news and updates relating to admissions and testing over the last week.

Trump Administration Requires New Admissions Data From Colleges

By far, the biggest education-related news story in the last week was the new guidelines from the President and the Department of Education on tracking admissions data for applicants and admitted students broken down by race and ethnicity. I wrote about it on Monday in-depth, which is linked above.

The Federal Government Cuts Over $100 Million in Student Exchange Funding

In more news of the current administration messing with education funding and other initiatives, a huge chunk of money already allocated to student exchange programs was pulled from the existing Fiscal Year budget. Twenty-two programs relating to cultural and academic exchange are in danger of losing funding.

Bizarrely, this happened because the Office of Management and Budget basically did not alert Congress about these funds. Congress must give a stamp to any funding allocation, but it’s usually an easy process where no one questions anything. After all, th…