FROM INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION: “If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, McMahon will take over a department that Trump has repeatedly said he wants to eliminate. But doing so will require an act of Congress. Some policy analysts have said Trump and his allies are more likely to leverage the department’s power to reshape the higher education system. Trump himself has pledged to fire accreditors to reclaim colleges from the ‘radical left’ and proposed creating a free online university funded by taxes on wealthy private colleges.” Read more here.