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Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Getty Images | Pixabay In case you missed it, as they say.…
Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Getty Images | Pixabay In case you missed it, as they say.…
Steven Almquist, professor of English and associate provost for arts and sciences at Spring Hill College, in Alabama, has been…
There has been much concern in higher education about the possible negative effects of students using artificial intelligence for their…
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce wants more information from Harvard University about how officials responded to allegations…
Nonprofit colleges and universities that announced closures this year largely fit the same profile: mostly small, private, tuition-dependent institutions with…
The number of Americans studying abroad in China has remained negligible since the start of the pandemic, largely because of…
The California Faculty Association says its members will strike from Jan. 22 to 26 across the California State University system.…
The Department of Education released details Friday on the rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, noting…
The leaders of Saint Mary’s College, a Catholic women’s institution in Indiana, recently became embroiled in a controversy after a…
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar Published in September…
The highest-paid content creator on YouTube, Jimmy Donaldson, has amassed more than 200 million followers with stunts such as being buried…
Zenobillis/iStock/Getty Images Plus Extreme weather—including heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes and heavy storms, along with associated disasters like wildfires, flooding and…
Brandeis University Press Dipesh Chakrabarty delivered the Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University in March 2017, parts of…
erhui1979/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images As presidential tenures continue to shorten and many presidents are considering leaving their posts, there are still…
Getting students to engage with campus career centers—and, more specifically, to engage early in their college careers with services and…
The Wisconsin State Capitol in Milwaukee, where legislators and UW system leaders tried—and failed—to come to a deal on DEI…
Penn president Liz Magill resigned Saturday, less than a week after appearing before Congress. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images After…
Seventy-four members of Congress on Friday signed a letter urging the governing boards of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and…
A nearly six-month standoff between the Universities of Wisconsin and the Republican-led state Legislature over diversity, equity and inclusion spending…
To the Editor: In “Presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT Face Grilling on Capitol Hill,” (December 5, 2023), Katherine Knott…
Paul LeBlanc Southern New Hampshire University Paul LeBlanc, who as president of Southern New Hampshire University helped transform a struggling…
New York State lawmakers are pushing to increase the number of students who qualify for state financial aid. Leading members…
Students are trapped in a matrix of assumptions that lead them to take out loans for college that they won’t…
To the Editor: Workforce shortages and growing student interest in high-demand fields present a chance for our higher education system…
Naratip Chandapaeng/iStock/Getty Images Plus Many faculty members across North America have sat on the sidelines in 2023, hoping for someone…
A group of at least 150 faculty members in the University of California system recently signed an open letter to…
Today is ChatGPT’s first birthday, and already this novel application has had a profound impact. One domain where this is…
We regularly do an exercise with higher education audiences in which we ask them to list three to five characteristics…
Partnerships between universities and community colleges are commonly perceived as a one-way street where the former extends expertise or resources…
Over the past few decades, colleges and universities have become increasingly corporatized, to the point that students are seen as…
The University of Southern California has opened an internal investigation of a leading neuroscientist, Berislav Zlokovic, over concerns from within…
One former Republican politician who now leads a Florida public university is criticizing a current GOP politician who was floated…
Graduating. Graduating on time. Graduating with manageable student loan debt. Graduating with technical and people skills needed to launch a…
Zayed University, in the United Arab Emirates, faces the loss of its U.S. accreditation unless it can show the Middle…
College presidents have long had to balance the rights of students, faculty and staff to speak freely, protest peacefully and…
Top university endowments saw modest returns in fiscal year 2023. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Getty Images…
The Commission on Presidential Debates has chosen four colleges and universities to play host to the presidential and vice presidential…
Pro-Palestinian protestors at an October 12 event organized by two student groups that Columbia later suspended. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Columbia…
California prosecutors have charged a community college faculty member with involuntary manslaughter and battery with serious bodily injury in the…
A highly engaged board is a vital strategic partner to a college or university president. And while much of the…
The University of Arizona has just 97 days’ worth of cash on hand—significantly less than previously forecast, a recent Board…
A professor is suing the Mayo Clinic medical school after a department chair threatened to fire him following a CNN…
The widely accepted triumvirate in which faculty members are expected to excel includes teaching, scholarship and service. While the amount…
My 18 students stare at their sewing needles as if I have just handed them a 19th-century divining rod. They…
Columbia students protest in support of Palestine on campus on Oct. 12. More demonstrations have occurred since, including one on…
Ohio lawmakers have been wrangling since March over a highly contested higher education bill that would prohibit public colleges and…
Last week the presidents of two historically Black institutions announced their departures: Robin Capehart at Bluefield State University and Rick…
Moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) is not just an itch and may not just go away on its own. It is…
Colleges and universities are legally required to protect students from antisemitism and Islamophobia, the Education Department reminded institutions Tuesday. “Hate-based…
It took 37 years for the opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X to move 410 feet from…