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• AI fears drive some young adults to grad school — ‘people shelter in higher education,’ expert says - Jessica Dickler, CNBC
  Typically, enrollment in graduate school increases during recessions as workers seek to advance or to move to another industry with better career prospects or pay. Today, more people in a survey said they plan to go back to school within a year, even though the economy is doing well. Experts say young adults are exploring […]
• Learn essential AI skills - Google Skills Lab
  We're building AI skills programs, trainings, and tools to address the specific needs of workers everywhere. Discover Google's courses and resources designed to help you succeed in an AI-driven world. Check out this free resource site from Google.https://ai.google/learn-ai-skills/
• Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators - Todd Wallack, Washington Post
  It takes most college students at least four years to earn a bachelor’s degree. Christie Williams finished in three months. The North Carolina human resources executive spent two months racking up credits through web tutorials after work in 2024, then raced through 11 online classes at the University of Maine at Presque Isle in four […]
• Is Your AI Ethical, Human-Centered and Pro-Social? - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  Many of us utilize AI daily in our higher education work, yet we may not have assessed the ethical and human-centered nature of the tool we have selected and trained through our prompts. AI tools are no longer a relatively simple search engine that is driven by marketing metrics to help us conduct our research. […]
• Rewired 2.0: How leading companies are (still) winning with AI - McKinsey
  Companies that successfully transform with AI can boost their EBITDA by roughly 20 percent, according to Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI. In this newly released second edition of the Rewired bestseller, five McKinsey leaders draw on more than 30 case studies to show how organizations turn AI ambition into measurable value. […]
• Provost's office funds 24 transformative initiatives - Rob Schweers, Iowa State University
  The office of the senior vice president and provost has announced $2.4 million in funding across two years for 24 transformative initiatives to support new academic programs, student success and career readiness, and build additional capacity in artificial intelligence (AI). Senior vice president and provost Jason Keith announced the one-time funding initiative in December, and […]
• New microcredentials launched to meet workforce and adult learner needs - University of Southern Indiana
  The University of Southern Indiana has launched a new slate of undergraduate and graduate microcredential programs, expanding flexible, short‑term learning options for working professionals, adult learners and students seeking targeted skill development. Introduced in fall 2025 and expanding in 2026, USI’s microcredentials align with the University’s core value of transformative learning and reflect a growing demand […]
• As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt - Lexi Lonas Cochran, the Hill
  A recent poll shows AI’s increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities that are still struggling to determine how the technology will shape higher education. The Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education survey found 47 percent of currently enrolled college students have thought about switching majors […]
• Nation’s first Online J.D. Program graduates share special camaraderie at St. Mary’s Law - Nathaniel Miller, St. Mary's University
  Together, the cohort known as Section O is the inaugural group for the law school’s Online J.D. Program. When it launched in Fall 2022, it was the first fully online J.D. program accredited by the American Bar Association. Now, additional law schools have followed the St. Mary’s Law example with their own online programs. Created […]
• How a master's in AI can prepare you to lead in business - Chloë Lane, GMAC
  In our most recent GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey Report, ‘skills in AI tools’ rose significantly in importance year-over-year—reflecting the growing demand for this proficiency. One effective way to build these desirable skills is by studying a master’s in AI—a specialist master’s degree that bridges the gap between technical expertise and business application. One such program […]
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  We have months left... in the Wake of Mythos and Glasswing Response - Wes Roth, YouTubeThe emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos model marks a significant shift in the AI landscape, particularly regarding cybersecurity. As Wes Roth details, the model possesses an "emergent" ability to autonomously identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in codebases that were previously thought […]
• Students are becoming AI fluent. Universities aren’t. - James L. Norrie, University Business
  Across higher education, artificial intelligence is too often being governed as though it were primarily an academic integrity issue. It is clearly not just that. AI is already reshaping how universities teach, advise, recruit, admit, communicate, assess risk, and make decisions. Yet many institutions continue to approach it through fragmented policies, uneven faculty guidance, and […]
• Economists Starting to Admit They May Have Been Wrong About AI Never Replacing Human Jobs: They're taking it seriously - Joe Wilkins, Futurism
  As a sweeping economics paper by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Forecasting Research Institute (FRI), and numerous top universities found, that attitude may be shifting. As time goes on, top economic experts are increasingly factoring extreme AI disruption into their models. Yet acknowledging a possibility and accepting its inevitable are two very […]
• The AI Transformation Manifesto - McKinsey
  The companies that are truly innovating with AI are doing something very different from their peers: They are conceptualizing and developing AI capabilities that reshape their products, services, core business processes, and organizational systems. These leading companies—many profiled in the second edition of our seminal book, Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI—are […]
• Central Illinois union painter shares the value of apprenticeships in a statewide professional development program - Addy Carnahan, Lauren Warnecke, WGLT NPRIllinois
  Jalissa Jones, also from ISU's Center for Specialized Professional Support, said people tend to think of apprenticeships being exclusively related to trades, but that's not always the case. “Another really vital part of this program is the idea of changing people's minds about what apprenticeships and what apprentices look like,” she said. “It can be […]
• Is Your AI System Ethical? Try This Assessment - Cornelia C. Walther, Knowledge at Wharton
  For the better part of a decade, organizations have been deploying artificial intelligence at scale while measuring it almost exclusively through the lens of efficiency gains, cost reductions, and revenue lift. The instruments are precise. The picture they produce is radically incomplete. Amid the pervasiveness of AI, this reality patchwork is now amplified. Existing dashboards […]
• Author Talks: Rewiring to outcompete with AI - McKinsey
  In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Barr Seitz speaks with McKinsey Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin, and Eric Lamarre, McKinsey alumnus and emeritus adviser, about the second edition of Rewired (Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI, Wiley, April 2026). They discuss what has changed over the past […]
• Will LLMs Replace Coders? Not Entirely - Seb Murray, Knowledge at Wharton
  “It was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again.” That comment, made recently by Dropbox’s former chief technology officer Aditya Agarwal, reflects a growing belief that generative AI is poised to displace swathes of white-collar workers — starting, perhaps, with software developers. But research by Wharton professor of operations, information […]
• Indiana public colleges to cut or merge about 580 programs due to state law - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  A new statute took effect last year that seeks to cull academic offerings that produce low numbers of graduates. Indiana’s public colleges are shedding or consolidating about 580 academic programs following a review by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education under a 2025 state law aiming to cull offerings that graduate low numbers of students. […]
• Syracuse University to eliminate 93 academic programs - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Syracuse University will eliminate 93 academic programs identified as having low or no enrollment, the private New York institution announced Wednesday. But unlike many colleges making cuts, Syracuse is not doing so out of financial necessity, according to Lois Agnew, the university’s provost and chief academic officer. The downsizing came from a desire to make […]