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• Education Department takes first step to strip ABA of accreditation authority - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  Agency staff recommended ending federal recognition for the American Bar Association’s accreditation arm, ramping up attacks on the organization. On Friday, U.S. Department of Education staff released a report recommending the agency deny federal recognition of the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which accredits law schools. Staff […]
• GPT-6 Astra - OpenAI
  (EDITOR'S NOTE - The version 6 of GPT, released yesterday, has re-ignited the debate over Artificial General Intelligence with some notable AI leaders claiming it has opened the AGI era.  Linked below is the OpenAI announcement with some sample videos of the capability.)GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training, reinforcement […]
• Online career training is growing – does it work? - Steven Yoder, the Hechinger Report
  Interest in career and technical education is booming now, as students seek ways to get a start  on a well-paying career, and perhaps cut short or avoid paying for a pricey college degree. Stride and other for-profit education companies that already run traditional high schools online have taken note and expanded their career-oriented offerings in […]
• Texas governor pushes for 3-year degree pathways - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday directed the state’s higher education board to develop recommendations for three-year pathways to bachelor’s degrees. Abbott instructed the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to gather public college officials and faculty leaders, as well as employers and accreditors, into a working group to mull the issue and report back to […]
• Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots’ flaws - JOCELYN GECKER and RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press
  AI literacy has become a buzzword of this back-to-school season as educators try to strike a balance between equipping students with the skills they need for an AI-driven future while preventing them from outsourcing their thinking to chatbots. There is no single definition of what AI literacy means, or how it should be taught. Tech […]
• The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. - Bill Gates, linkedIn Pulse
  We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history.Right now, we are not preparing adequately for that transition.If the world takes the right steps, AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better offhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/turbulent-ai-era-here-choices-we-make-now-critical-bill-gates-kkmze/
• Ghost students: Why one-time identity verification is not enough - Mouhamad Mbacke, University Business
  Since April 2026, every applicant completing the FAFSA has been screened for identity fraud. The Department of Education introduced the requirement after Federal Student Aid concluded that stolen and synthetic identities—also known as “ghost students”—had become a serious threat to federal aid programs. Ghost student fraud deserves every higher education security leader’s attention because it […]
• Lessons from AASCU: Why regional universities are built for online growth - Risepoint
  Regional public universities are navigating a period of profound change: demographic decline, growing competition from national online providers, and increasing pressure to demonstrate the value of a degree. Those challenges formed the backdrop for a conversation at this year’s American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Summer Meeting, where Dr. Shelly Blunt, Provost at […]
• How New Visa Limits Are Already Affecting Colleges - Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed
  International applicants dropped by over 25 percent at Illinois’s flagship university and several dozen international students withdrew from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, just weeks before the start of the semester. Those are just two of the ways colleges said, in court filings, that new limits on how long international students can stay in the […]
• Now Is the Time to Plan and Prepare Your Students and Colleagues on Workplace AI - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  If ever there was a most important era in which we must emphasize discourse with our students, it is today. We are in the midst of major changes in our culture and society as a whole. How, then, do we prepare our learners to enter a job market where the primary tools are making huge […]
• Higher education systems are quickly moving toward financial peril - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Concerns are increasing about the number of university and college systems in financial distress or drifting toward it—and many may be beyond repair without outside help, according to the latest analysis by education tech company Ellucian. Three familiar boogeymen—shrinking pools of students, rising operating costs and workforce disruptions—are worsening the financial outlook for the nation’s […]
• DHS to propose end of 60-day grace period for H-1B visa holders - Kathryn Moody, Higher Ed Dive
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will soon propose a rule to eliminate the 60-day grace period that H-1B and similar nonimmigrant visa holders receive if their employment ends before the expiration date of their visas.The rule was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget on Aug. 6, but it has yet to be […]
• Tenure-Track Ranks Grew Last Year, Survey Finds - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  The number of faculty—including those on the tenure track—is on the rise, new data from College and University Professional Association for Human Resources shows. According to a survey of more than 900 colleges and universities about their worker head counts published this week, the number of tenure-track faculty increased 7 percent between the 2024–25 and […]
• Colleges made deep staff cuts while adding tenure-track faculty last year - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  Full-time staff at colleges dropped 6.6% in 2025 compared to the year before, ending several years of growth, according to data released Wednesday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The decline was even sharper among part-time staff, whose ranks plunged by 23.9% last year, CUPA-HR’s latest survey data showed. However, faculty […]
• Report: Benchmarking Online Ed - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed
  Last year, the online and professional education association UPCEA urged institutions to close the gap between student expectations on institutional preparedness for online learning as part of its annual report on the Benchmarking Online Enterprises Survey. This year’s report, released Monday, warns that the story beneath the 2026 data isn’t one of a “rising tide […]
• Bankrupt Anna Maria College to sell nursing program for $1.1M - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
  After closing abruptly this year, the Catholic institution is trying to pay off millions of dollars in debt.  Anna Maria College, in Massachusetts, plans to sell its nursing program for $1.1 million to nearby Assumption University next month, according to court documents filed Monday. Anna Maria closed this year following its spring term due to […]
• With New AI Requirements and Courses, Colleges Eye AI Fluency - Emma Whitford, Inside Higher Ed
  Their approaches may differ but their motivations are the same: Employers are, at breakneck speed, increasingly asking for graduates who know how to effectively use AI. It’s called AI fluency, said Ray Schroeder, a senior fellow at the online and professional education association UPCEA, and it “can be a decisive factor between getting a job […]
• Organizational AI Adoption Jumps Six Points - Andy Kemp, Gallup
  Reported organizational adoption of AI grew sharply in Q2 2026. Forty-seven percent of U.S. employees now say their organization has integrated AI tools to improve productivity, efficiency or quality, up from 41% in the last quarter. One in five employees remain unsure as to whether their organization has integrated AI tools, unchanged from prior quarters.  […]
• Worker Anxiety Over AI Is Growing, and Employers Aren't Preparing Employees for What's Next, New Survey Finds - JFF.org
  In a marked shift from a year ago, workers are now more likely to say AI is a net-negative than a net-positive when it comes to finding jobs, building wealth, and securing their quality of life, according to a new national survey released today by national nonprofit Jobs for the Future (JFF). The survey, conducted […]
• Once globally preeminent, U.S. universities are sliding into decline - Jon Marcus, Hechinger Report
  Now, as a new academic year begins, American dominance in higher education globally is incontrovertibly in decline, according to data, international rankings and independent experts.  The slide has been accelerated by a year and a half of funding cuts, restrictions on international students and curbs on what can be said or taught. But it began […]