Higher Education Data

On March 11, 2026, a coalition of attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts against the Department of Education challenging the Trump Administration’s demand that higher education institutions provide new data via a recently added component to the Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS), a collection of interrelated surveys administered by the Department of Education. We argue the rushed implementation of the new survey requirements leaves institutions vulnerable to inadvertent errors and unreliable data that could lead to costly penalties and baseless investigations into their practices, and that it jeopardizes student privacy by requesting in-depth information about individual students.  

Massachusetts, et al v. US Department of Education