Category: Higher Education
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
5 big questions to help you understand the current state of student loans
Washington is sending confusing and even contradictory signals to people with student loans. New repayment plans, reversals on wage garnishment […]
January 28, 2026
STUDENT VOICES: Two recent college graduates have a message to their 17-year-old selves: Don’t go it alone
Like millions of students across the country, we recently graduated from college. We know how unlikely this moment once seemed. […]
January 27, 2026
Their value attacked and funding cut, universities and colleges start fighting back
A narrator speaks over images of busy cityscapes, children playing in a field and ominous scenes of natural disasters and […]
January 27, 2026
Educating teachers to use AI without harming the planet
This story appeared in our climate and education newsletter. Sign up here. I’m one of those rare people (there are […]
January 25, 2026
Upcoming Higher Education Conferences to Put on Your Radar
InsightsEDU 2026 – Marketing and Enrollment Management for Adult and Online Education Date: February 17-19, 2026Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL EducationDynamics’ InsightsEDU […]
January 22, 2026
Search Everywhere Optimization: Reinventing Student Discovery for the AI Era
For decades, the enrollment funnel followed a familiar script: search, click, visit, inquire. That script no longer describes how decisions […]
January 20, 2026
Imagining otherwise: how students practise political agency
by Anu Lainio and Anna Sofia Salonen “I also feel that the sense of hopefulness…is essential. Without it there isn’t […]
January 16, 2026