"📝 What’s in today’s Briefing? How effective are corequisite courses? Summer lists for scholars and those who work with them. Soccer and cycling fans shouldn’t miss the Footnote," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. 

..."A federal court blocked new graduate-student-lending definitions a week before they were due to take effect, The Chronicle’s Sarah Brown reports.

More students are now poised to access the higher of two lending caps that congressional Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” created.

• It all hinges on the definition of “professional.” The bill capped graduate lending at $200,000 in aggregate for students in programs deemed to be “professional” — and capped it at half as much for all other graduate students.

The Trump administration went narrow with a set of rules that limited “professional” programs to just 11 fields: pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, law, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, theology, and clinical psychology.

But several professional associations sued. They argue those who want to study nursing, therapy, public health, and education, as well as those who want to be physician assistants, will be harmed if they’re denied financial aid.

Plaintiffs are likely to prove that the U.S. Department of Education didn’t follow the law and that the new definition would cause harm if it goes into effect, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote Wednesday.

The current three-part definition of “professional” programs will temporarily remain in effect, according to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."

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Publication Date: 6/26/2026