Category: Higher Education
Educators ‘climatize’ their classes to prepare students for work and life on a warming planet
About four years ago, Holly Bailey-Hofmann’s English 101 class at West Los Angeles College got a complete makeover. She’d signed […]
March 1, 2026
Inside InsightsEDU 2026: Highlights From the Conference Transforming Higher Education
The energy was unmistakable as higher education leaders from more than 100 universities gathered in Fort Lauderdale for InsightsEDU 2026. […]
February 27, 2026
Conservative-leaning civic centers now teach courses at public colleges
COLUMBUS, Ohio — One glossy insert stuck out from the orientation packet handed to hundreds of Ohio State University freshmen […]
February 24, 2026
OPINION: There is no clear strategy to prepare U.S. high schoolers for life after graduation, and that must change
U.S. high schools and districts need to treat college and career readiness as a core, systemic responsibility — not an […]
February 23, 2026
EUA seeking research funding sustainability
Cover of EUA report The European University Association (EUA) released a report “Strategies for the financial sustainability of European Universities […]
February 21, 2026
Designing for the Future: A Curriculum Horizon-Scanning Workshop
This week’s Substack resource provides an outline for a workshop that brings together faculty to explore one of the most […]
February 19, 2026
OPINION: Want to get young people excited about learning? Give them hands-on programs, mentors and skills that lead to good careers
Sitting in a classroom and being lectured day after day is no way to excite young people about learning. Students […]
February 19, 2026
When school size matters and when it doesn’t
For two decades, New York City’s small high schools stood out as one of the nation’s most ambitious — and […]
February 16, 2026
OPINION: Pathways for future scientists are becoming scarce, threatening a strong and innovative workforce
When I was 17, I didn’t know a single scientist. I did not grow up around labs, research universities or […]
February 16, 2026
The greening of career education: Students learn new skills they’ll need as climate change advances
GREENVILLE, S.C. — On one end of the classroom, high school juniors examined little green sprouts — future baby carrots, […]
February 15, 2026
After affirmative action: Four takeaways — and puzzles — from college admissions data
Most people believed that the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to end affirmative action in higher education admissions would cause a […]
February 12, 2026
Getting in is getting easier
Think getting into college is all but impossible? Think again. Sure, the most selective institutions still take only a tiny […]
February 11, 2026
Changing landscape of international student mobility
by Hans de Wit, Philip G Altbach and Lizhou Wang In its many diverse forms – including degree study, credit […]
February 10, 2026
Easy A’s, lower pay: Grade inflation’s hidden damage
For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more […]
February 9, 2026
Funding cuts, shifts in aid could make college harder to afford for low-income families
It was in the quiet of the summer when Jeff Kahlden heard that a promising young student he advised in […]
February 9, 2026
OPINION: Community colleges are uniquely positioned to train the nation’s AI workforce
Every industrial revolution begins by creating a new middle class. The steam engine, for example, didn’t just replace blacksmiths; it […]
February 9, 2026
College admissions offices take on a new role: Coaxing accepted students to show up
MINNEAPOLIS — Kathy Cabrera Guaman not only survived the nail-biting process of applying to college; she got into three. But […]
February 3, 2026
Hispanic-serving colleges scramble to fill gaps left by federal grant cuts
CHICO, Calif. — As an undergraduate studying psychology at California State University, Chico, Gabriel Muñoz thought that his degree might […]
February 3, 2026
When the Spanish flu upended universities, students paid the price
In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious […]
February 2, 2026
OPINION: On a college campus in Minneapolis, a sense of danger and anxiety prevails
Spring semester at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, where I serve as president, began with the sound of helicopters on January […]
January 30, 2026