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• Autistic students who make it through college face a bigger challenge: getting jobs - Kelly Field, Hechinger Report
  Today’s college graduates are entering one of the tightest job markets in years, as companies scale back entry-level hiring amid economic uncertainty and the explosion of artificial intelligence. Just under a third of 2025 graduates - and fewer than half of 2024 graduates - have found full-time employment related to their education, according to one […]
• Choosing to Stay Human - Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing
  But using AI for writing has a cost beyond turning off readers, it risks undermining the development of an important human task. I am lucky enough to have been writing for decades, and I have developed my own style which I think shines through whether I am writing a book, a tweet, or a blog […]
• Rural Opportunity,Through Apprenticeship - Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed
  Howard isn’t originally from Exeter, a town of roughly 700 people, but she grew up on her family’s cattle farm in a similarly rural area just a half hour away. Over her years in school, she was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia, and she struggled to get the support she needed. Now, she’s training […]
• How to choose the right AI tools for teaching - Laura Milne, Times Higher Education
  University educators have a duty to prepare students for an AI-enabled world. This can be challenging, given the plethora of tools available; the temptation to try every shiny new one is common, but doing so without careful consideration may raise ethical concerns. So which AI tools should we use? And how should we incorporate them […]
• Free course empowers people with disabilities - McPherson Media Group, Shepparton News
  The world‑first program, delivered by Collaborating 4 Inclusion and The University of Sydney, supports inclusive, practical and person‑centred emergency preparedness. It was co-designed by people with a disability and focuses on emergency preparedness for individuals and groups. The training consists of six self-paced online modules completed over five weeks, which include reading, videos and activities, […]
• Assessing critical thinking in critical times - Kate Williams, Times Higher Education
  Improving critical thinking is neither easy to do nor easy to measure. Outside educational philosophers, it is often defined as something “you know when you see it”. Or, perhaps more clearly, you know it when you don’t see it. When people opine on the absence of critical thinking, they often use examples of illogical assumption, […]
• Generative AI use and misuse call for assessment reform in higher education - Igor Chirikov, Ivan Smirnov, and René F. Kizilcec, Science
  The debate about the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on higher education is polarized. Some portray GenAI as normalizing cheating at scale (1), whereas others argue that misconduct patterns have changed little (2). These competing narratives underscore the need for reliable data on where GenAI use is concentrated and where misuse is most likely. […]
• How Golden Gate’s big AI bet will energize fundamental changes - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  At the height of California’s gold rush, a YMCA night school was founded to train students in gold assaying and assist Chinese immigrants with learning English. It marks the humble beginnings of Golden Gate University—and an enduring tale that inspires President Brent White to capitalize on a new national phenomenon.Golden Gate made three major announcements […]
• Education Department releases final rule for Workforce Pell - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  The U.S. Department of Education on Monday released final regulations detailing the process for how programs as short as eight weeks can get approval from their governors and the federal government to be eligible for Pell Grants.  The rule carries out the statutory standards that short-term programs must meet related to student outcomes — including […]
• College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams - Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune
  On one hand, they’ve made their ire toward the technology clear: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with hisses during his commencement remarks at the University of Arizona’s graduation ceremony on Sunday when he invoked the inevitability of a future with artificial intelligence. “The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It […]
• Online Education Market Hits New High | Major Giants edX, Pearson, FutureLearn - Open PR
  The latest study released on the Global Online Education Market by HTF MI Research evaluates market size, trend, and forecast to 2033. The Online Education study covers significant research data and proofs to be a handy resource document for managers, analysts, industry experts and other key people to have ready-to-access and self-analyzed study to help […]
• Why Professional Development Matters for Museum Professionals - Manuel Charr, Museum Next
  Museums are at a crossroads. Visitor expectations are changing, digital transformation is reshaping how collections are shared, and conversations around inclusion, decolonisation, and community engagement are redefining what museums are for. In this environment, professional development isn’t a nice-to-have for museum professionals — it’s essential. Whether you’re a curator, educator, collections manager, digital lead, or […]
• Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says - Madeleine Ngo and Albert Sun, NY Times
  The change could upend the lives of people who entered the country lawfully through temporary visas and are seeking green cards to remain in the United States, including students, spouses of U.S. citizens and a wide range of foreign workers. The process of obtaining a green card — which gives immigrants the right to live […]
• If Canvas Goes Down Again, What’s the Contingency Plan? - Lisa Anderson and Mairéad Martin, Inside Higher Ed
  Faculty and administrators across the country, shaped by their experience adapting instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, knew what to do last week. Shifting the modality of instruction is not new for us. Instructors quickly improvised alternative assignments, delayed quizzes and exams, populated offline course materials, and adjusted timelines in order to keep learning moving forward. […]
• Cuts and hiring freezes spread as spring semester closes - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Numerous public universities are closing out the spring term with hiring freezes, layoffs and structural cuts as leaders confront budget shortfalls. Last week, the University of Oregon announced that it has frozen hiring and pay increases while it works to close a projected $65 million structural deficit, largely tied to lower out-of-state enrollment and tuition […]
• Why Higher Education Needs Humanics - Michael J. Avaltroni, US News
  In a world where artificial intelligence now permeates daily life and higher education, it has become essential to weave the human element throughout the delivery of instruction – particularly healthcare education.Enter humanics.The integration of humanics – often described as the study, understanding and development of key human qualities – represents a novel way to foster […]
• BOR Announces Systemwide Strategic Objectives for Artificial Intelligence Integration - SD.gov
  The South Dakota Board of Regents (BOR) announced a strategic set of objectives designed to position the state’s public universities to become leaders in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. As AI continues to reshape workforce expectations, academic disciplines, and operational practices, the Regental system is taking coordinated action to ensure students, faculty, and […]
• Grade inflation much higher in ‘AI-exposed’ degrees - Jack Groves, Times Higher Education
  Drawing on publicly available data from a large research university in Texas, Igor Chirikov, a senior researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, examined the marks awarded to more than 500,000 students between 2018 and 2025. When these grade patterns were compared against syllabus data on the types of writing tasks used for assessment, it […]
• Can colleges still deliver in the age of AI? One Ivy League school is investing $30 million to improve career outcomes - Jessica Dickler, CNBC
  College students are increasingly worried about what an AI-driven jobs apocalypse could mean for their employment prospects. To that end, many colleges and universities are racing to recalibrate.Even at nation’s most elite schools, the focus is shifting to career readiness. Fears that artificial intelligence will upend students’ future career plans are reverberating across college campuses. […]
• MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus - Washington Post
  MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned Thursday. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, MIT’s president, Sally Kornbluth, told the campus community in a video message, and the number of new […]