Here is what students and borrowers need to know about the U.S. Department of Education’s new proposed definition of ...

The Trump administration has elected to reduce the number of disciplines that qualify as "professional degrees" eligible for generous aid programs.

A new federal policy classifying advanced nursing degrees as ‘nonprofessional’ will likely hurt the profession and patient ...

The Trump administration has decided that, for student loan programs at least, nursing programs are not "professional" ...

Several positions, including nursing, were recently reclassified from a “professional degree” to a “graduate degree” under ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was passed in July, instructed the Department of Education to make the change, which ...

Nursing has been added to a list of professions that the Department of Education is no longer considering a “professional degree.” This change is related to efforts to cap the number of students ...

New limits on federal student loans could reshape how the U.S. trains nurses and doctors. Under the One Big Beautiful Act, ...

During the early days of the pandemic, streets across the country were filled with cheers and banging pots as we all celebrated our heroic nurses on their way home. While those days in 2020 uplifted ...

Ulrich is the Lillian S. Brunner endowed chair in medical and surgical nursing, and professor of nursing and medical ethics and health policy, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and ...

Nurses, social workers and other public health fields are slated to no longer be considered “professional degrees” in 2026, a ...

Daniel Crawford with the University of Iowa's College of Nursing worries that excluding nursing from being a professional ...