Katherine Knott 🤷♀️(on bsky.social)
@Knott_Katherine
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News Editor @insidehighered. Federal policy nerd. Forever a recovering local news reporter. #MizzouMade (Views not of my employer)
NV → MO → KY → VA → DC
Joined November 2010
~ Some Personal News ~ I’m an editor now! The news editor at @insidehighered, to be specific. I love reporting but excited about this new adventure. (And I’ll still be reporting here and there, because as you know, old habits die screaming.)
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RT @meltzere: “This is an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars, which have been invested—per Congressional appropriations and many accordin…
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RT @RuthServenSmith: Alabama's AG didn't join effort to block enforcement of NIH cuts. That means those cuts -- which UAB, state's largest…
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And now it’s blocked …
Trump's latest attempt to cut back on NIH funding has set off alarms in higher ed. If the slash goes unchallenged, colleges will have to cut budgets, raise tuition or reduce research to make up the difference, Kathryn Palmer + @Knott_Katherine report.
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RT @sahilkapur: .@SenatorCollins slams the Trump admin’s NIH cuts as “poorly conceived” and says she has called RFK to “to express my stron…
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RT @JessicaEBlake: Trump's latest attempt to cut back on NIH funding has set off alarms in higher ed. If the slash goes unchallenged, col…
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RT @liamhknox: Does Elon Musk's DOGE have access to students' sensitive financial aid information? @JessicaEBlake and I wrote about growi…
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RT @JessicaEBlake: Trump's nominee for secretary of education will appear before the Senate next Thursday. Here's what we know about Lind…
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RT @ZachSchermele: Now we know why the Office of Government Ethics' pre-clearance review for Trump's education secretary nominee was taking…
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So in case you didn’t know, the Education Department plays a key role in the current higher education system. Here’s how:
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RT @bykatiebuehler: UPDATE: The Supreme Court has *refused* to pause the 3 environmental cases, but it will halt briefing in the Education…
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RT @politico: ‘Exactly what it looks like’: Education Department staffers express confusion about Trump’s resignation offer
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RT @SaraWeissman: The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to take action on campuses, sowing fear amo…
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RT @JStein_WaPo: NEW: Officials across the US government are privately warning that Musk's DOGE blitz appears to be violating numerous fede…
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Yeah, y’all, this has been the plan for dismantling ED, as outlined in Project 2025 .
“It’s a shit show,” a senior education official told @RealCrookedNews . There are rumors that federal student aid could be moved under the Treasury Department, and the Office of Civil Rights placed under the Justice Department, the official added.
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RT @insidehighered: The Doctoral Dilemma More than half of those who earn Ph.D.s now decide to leave academia after graduation. Why, then,…
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RT @propublica: “I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” said Dr…
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