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• The most versatile college majors: Which degrees help grads adapt to a changing job market? - Investopedia, University Business
  As hiring has declined across nearly every field, new data suggests that liberal arts graduates may be best suited to adapt. LinkedIn provided an analysis of its hiring data to Investopedia, comparing hiring rates and versatility across the 20 most popular majors among recent bachelor’s degree graduates. The analysis compares the LinkedIn hiring rate for […]
• Employment patterns are now improving for young workers without degrees - Erik Sherman, University Business
  The most pronounced shift has occurred among workers ages 22 to 34. Burning Glass Institute’s analysis found that, for roughly two decades, unemployment trends for workers with and without college degrees generally moved in tandem when measured through a 212-month moving average for people age 16 and older by education level. That relationship began to […]
• At Georgetown University dialogue, future of artificial intelligence seen as ‘something we have to tackle together’ - Mark Zimmermann, Catholic Standard
  In a week when tech leaders said the artificial intelligence industry needs to slow its race to an uncertain future that some warn may be apocalyptic, Georgetown University hosted a Sept. 9 discussion on “AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s Invitation to Dialogue with the World.” The dialogue, sponsored by Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic […]
• OPINION: We’ve been treating college as a career plan, but it’s failing too many students - Pat O'Donnell, Hechinger Report
  Georgetown’s ROI data shows that associate degrees and certificates often deliver a higher return on investment than bachelor’s degrees in the first 10 years after completion, although the data also shows that ROI for bachelor’s degrees pulls ahead at 15 years and then widens the gap thereafter. That nuance matters: For students who need economic […]
• Is Overreliance on AI Causing Agency Decay? - Cornelia C. Walther, Knowledge at Wharton
  People tested it, teased it, challenged it, praised it, feared it, and shared screenshots. Three and a half years later, the novelty has become infrastructure. AI now sits inside search engines, office software, customer-service platforms, coding environments, writing tools, and corporate workflows. That shift has created a new managerial problem: agency decay. Agency decay is […]
• From Search to Strategy: What Student AI Use Means for the Future of Academic Libraries - EDUCAUSE
  While many academic librarians worry that artificial intelligence (AI) may reduce student engagement, research suggests a different story: students are integrating AI into their research workflows while continuing to rely on libraries for trusted sources and deeper scholarly inquiry. This interview features: Amy Deschenes, Interim Director of UX and Discovery, Harvard University and Meg McMahon, User Experience […]
• Why We Haven’t Measured College-Level Learning - Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
  In the next couple of weeks, I’ll explain why we’ve historically tried (and failed) to measure learning and the importance of doing so now. Provide my early, and undoubtedly imperfect, ideas about how we might do that. And, importantly, distinguish what I’m envisioning from the accreditation- and accountability-driven “assessment” that a lot of you (not […]
• IRS tax plan could imperil college finances, Moody’s says - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  The Trump administration’s recent proposal to revoke the tax-exempt status of private nonprofit colleges over their diversity efforts could bring steep financial consequences for institutions, according to a report out this week from Moody’s Ratings. Analysts with the ratings agency said widespread loss of tax status was “unlikely,” on the assumption that most institutions would […]
• Cultivating Student Resilience: Practical Strategies for Well-Being - Lee Lipton, Faculty Focus
  The introduction of self-regulation and stress-management strategies into higher education curricula has recently come into focus as a necessary component of promoting resilience and preventing future professional burnout (Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Egan et al., 2022; Zhang et al., 2025). In addition to enhancing academic performance, evidence-based regulation strategies could help mitigate the effects of […]
• Rutgers Law School Launches Online J.D. Program, Expanding Access to a Rutgers Legal Education Nationwide - Rutgers
  Beginning in 2027, Rutgers Law School will offer a new answer to those questions. The school is launching an Online J.D. program that combines live online classes, flexible coursework, and periodic in-person learning experiences, creating a pathway for students who want to earn a law degree while balancing careers, caregiving responsibilities, military service, community commitments, […]
• Rebuilding Higher Education’s Capacity to Respond - Emily Donnelli Sallee, Evolllution
  Academic agility shifts the conversation to an institution’s core mission of teaching and learning and frames financial sustainability as the outcome, rather than the objective, of a well-functioning higher education organization. When institutions get academic agility right, it becomes second nature. Academic agility allows institutions to continue evolving our missions and educational models to meet […]
• Moving Beyond the Trend Line in Continuing Education - Derek Tannis, Evolllution
  Continuing education leaders now depend on forecasting more than ever. Formerly reliable indicators point in different directions. Once financial, operational and learner realities intersect, stable trends become harder to read. Enrollment may hold steady while margins tighten. Labor market demand may rise while staffing capacity weakens. A program may meet familiar success measures yet become […]
• Students re-imagine AI through Hastings Initiative - Emma Landry, Bowdoin Orient
  The Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity, a $50 million initiative funded by Bowdoin alumnus and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, emerged with an ambitious mission: “exploring, understanding and ethically guiding the transformative power of artificial intelligence.” The initiative’s priorities include hiring ten new faculty members across academic disciplines, funding faculty research and supporting teaching and […]
• NC State Receives $20 Million Grant to Develop New AI-Enabled Learning Technologies - Matt Shipman, North Carolina State
  The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded North Carolina State University a five-year, $20 million grant to support research on artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can generate interactive narratives effective at engaging K-12 students and improving learning. The grant is a renewal of a previous five-year, $20 million award that established the NSF AI Institute for […]
• As an academic scientist in the U.S., I’m learning to live with uncertainty - Violeta J. Rodriguez, Science
  I reread the email I had drafted to my department chair one last time. Then I read it again, and finally clicked “send.” The message itself was short: I wanted to pursue tenure 3 years ahead of the usual timeline. A changing political and funding landscape had made the future of my health equity research […]
• University of North Texas to Open College of AI, Analytics - Milla Surjadi, The Dallas Morning News
  The University of North Texas will establish a college of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics after receiving a $20 million gift, it announced Tuesday. The philanthropic investment comes from Vikas Sinha, a UNT alumnus and vice president of the mainframe software division at Broadcom, a semiconductor and infrastructure manufacturer, and his wife, Anuradha. As UNT […]
• University of Utah could cut up to 15% of staff ahead of future enrollment drops - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  University of Utah leaders plan to slash staff positions by 5% to 15% over the next year as the institution faces what it described as “some of the most significant challenges in its 176-year history.” The staff eliminations would amount to between 250 and 855 jobs, cuts that could include layoffs as well as attrition […]
• Business, government and education leaders try to reinvent college from scratch - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
  Called the Greenway Institute — “green” as in new — the project will adopt instructional methods proven to work well, such as real-world training under the supervision of faculty mentors, while stripping away the frills, distractions and layers of bureaucracy that make college in America so expensive. “It’s not fancy. It’s a place where you […]
• Columbia and JED partner on teen mental health safeguards for AI - ETIH
  Columbia University’s Technology & Democracy Initiative and The Jed Foundation have formed a partnership focused on how AI systems respond to teenagers experiencing emotional distress or suicidal thoughts. The project brings together AI safety specialists and mental health and suicide prevention experts, two groups the partners say increasingly work on the same problems but still […]
• More than half of colleges show signs of money problems. Students will suffer the consequences: Many schools will resort to laying off faculty, cutting services and increasing prices - Marina Villeneuve, Hechinger Report
  Higher education has faced fiscal headwinds in recent years as hundreds of institutions grapple with declining enrollment because of demographic trends and growing public skepticism about the value of a college degree. Trump policies targeting international students and cutting federal research funding made the financial situation more dire, as have new caps to graduate student […]