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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
6 hours ago

How Colleges Hope to Approach International Higher Ed in 2026

Amid uncertainty about what the future may bring for international higher education, institutions are investing in new recruitment strategies or looking at new ways to reach international students, according to international education experts. That may involve recruiting more from countries that weren't as affected by visa delays, forging new partnerships with international recruiting agencies or launching new branch campuses to reach international students in their home countries.
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fromFortune
18 hours ago
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'Employers are increasingly turning to degree and GPA' in hiring: Recruiters retreat from 'talent is everywhere,' double down on top colleges | Fortune

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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

UK university degree no longer passport to social mobility', says King's vice-chancellor

A UK university degree no longer guarantees social mobility due to graduate oversupply, a shrinking pay premium, economic stagnation, and AI and global competition.
fromFortune
18 hours ago
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'Employers are increasingly turning to degree and GPA' in hiring: Recruiters retreat from 'talent is everywhere,' double down on top colleges | Fortune

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 day ago

Increased Sense of Belonging Boosts Student Graduation Rates

The survey measured belonging by asking students to rate their agreement with the statement "I feel that I am a part of [school]" on a five-point scale, where 1 means strongly disagree and 5 means strongly agree. Students who rated their sense of belonging in their second year one step higher on the five-point scale than they did in their first year-such as moving from neutral to agree-were 3.4 percentage points more likely to graduate within four years.
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fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago
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This Calif. university is the latest to score millions from Mackenzie Scott

fromFortune
1 month ago
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MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune

fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago
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This Calif. university is the latest to score millions from Mackenzie Scott

fromFortune
1 month ago
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MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune

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fromThe Mercury News
4 days ago

Diablo Valley students in Pleasant Hill win big at entrepreneurship contest

Students from Contra Costa colleges presented wellness, food-sustainability, and student-support ventures, with four teams winning cash prizes at a district pitch competition.
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fromTruthout
5 days ago

Trump's Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook

The Trump administration is undermining higher education and academic independence, advancing policies that risk transforming universities into ideological instruments and fueling a neofascist trajectory.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

31 Atlantic Stories You Might Have Missed

A curated selection of notable long-form narratives and essays spanning travel, politics, culture, and history, recommended for winter reading.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago
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New law streamlines housing development process for California's coastal universities

Assembly Bill 357 streamlines Coastal Commission approvals to accelerate and lower-cost development of student housing on California coastal university campuses starting Jan. 1.
fromwww.santacruzsentinel.com
1 week ago
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New law streamlines housing development process for California's coastal universities

California Assembly Bill 357 streamlines Coastal Commission approvals to accelerate and reduce costs for student housing development on coastal university campuses beginning Jan. 1.
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fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 weeks ago

Remembering Donald Hongisto, president of Merritt College and other Peralta campuses

Don moved to San Francisco in 1942 with his parents and younger brother Richard (Dick). He often joked that leaving the frigid cold of northern Minnesota and moving to beautiful San Francisco was one of the best things his parents ever did. Don was an academic student, skipping half a grade after moving to San Francisco. In 1950, he graduated from Polytechnic High School, where he was a yell leader and an editor of the high school newspaper and yearbook.
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fromCornell Chronicle
2 weeks ago

Kotlikoff to December grads: 'Meet the future with confidence' | Cornell Chronicle

More than 500 Cornell graduates marked their transition to alumni, attributing rigorous education and supportive campus communities for preparing them for careers and life.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

'They'll lose their humanity': Dartmouth professor says he's surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI | Fortune

In a recent interview, the former consultant at McKinsey and Innosight, a boutique firm cofounded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson in 2000 and acquired by Huron in 2017, revealed the prevailing mood among the next generation of business leaders isn't just excitement-it is fear. "One of the things that really surprises me consistently is how scared our students are of using it," Anthony said.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
2 weeks ago

Palestinian immigrant achieves American dream in Contra Costa County

At such a young age, Khalilieh left home alone for the United States, carrying little more than determination and a limited grasp of English. The very little English I knew I learned from watching old Clint Eastwood cowboy movies, he said. Those films shaped his expectations of America, which were quickly challenged upon arrival. To my surprise, when I got to California, no one was wearing cowboy hats, he added.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir's Work for Ed Department

The AAUP says it learned of the partnership when FedScoop reported that it noticed a message referencing Palantir on the website foreignfundinghighered.gov Dec. 4. An hour later, the website showed "a login page with the Palantir logo," and, a couple of hours after that, "the Palantir logo was replaced with an Education Department logo," the outlet wrote. Foreignfundinghighered.gov tracks foreign gifts and contracts data for higher ed institutions.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Public Trust Requires Both Reform and Defense

Higher ed cannot restore public trust in colleges and universities unless the sector reckons in a clear-eyed fashion with the causes of the current crisis. Simply put, the fundamental problem is that when the sector or its individual institutions draw public criticism, we are unable either to make quick changes in response, to explain compellingly why we should not do so, or to redirect public attention effectively toward the overall value and purpose of our work.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

OpenAIinks deals with colleges, seizing early lead in education market

OpenAI secured an early lead on US college campuses by selling hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT licenses and driving widespread student and faculty usage.
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fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Get Ready For U.S. News Law School Rankings To Make No Sense - Above the Law

U.S. News law school rankings once provided crude but useful prestige guidance, but recent projections produce implausible ties undermining their credibility as a prestige barometer.
fromBusiness Matters
3 weeks ago

Erasmus scheme set to return for UK students from 2027

At the time, the then prime minister Boris Johnson described leaving the scheme as a "tough decision", arguing that participation had become "extremely expensive".
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fromCornell Chronicle
3 weeks ago

Historic gift endows Cornell CALS Ashley School | Cornell Chronicle

$55 million endowment establishes the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment, merging global development and natural resources departments.
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Texas Universities Use AI to Rewrite How Courses Mention Race and Gender

A senior Texas A&M University System official testing a new artificial intelligence tool this fall asked it to find how many courses discuss feminism at one of its regional universities. Each time she asked in a slightly different way, she got a different number. "Either the tool is learning from my previous queries," Texas A&M system's chief strategy officer Korry Castillo told colleagues in an email, "or we need to fine tune our requests to get the best results."
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fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Trump is taking on America's college debate

The Education Department will expand Pell grants to fund short-term credential programs, offering low-income students faster, lower-debt pathways into the workforce.
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fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

Stop Trying to Make the Humanities 'Relevant'

Humanities must defend rigorous, difficult inquiry against demands for immediate practicality and the commodification of knowledge by frictionless technologies.
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fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

AI Isn't Killing Education

AI exposes education's reliance on ritual and signaling, revealing brittle institutions that traded judgment for compliance and polished fluency for real thinking.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

I'm an entrepreneur who never went to college and taught my kids to avoid debt. They both decided to go to college anyway.

My mom has been a salon owner in Baltimore for over 35 years. The salon was my after-school program, my social circle, and my introduction to business. I learned early that work is more than a paycheck. It is the foundation for the kind of life you want to live. My mom didn't talk about freedom in a motivational sense. She lived it. She set her own schedule and ran the business in a way that made sense for her.
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fromFortune
3 weeks ago

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations-but it's become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate | Fortune

College disability accommodations have surged since the pandemic, driven by rising mental-health diagnoses, broader access to care, and debate over potential misuse.
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fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

Columbia Law School unveils new library named for outstanding alum amNewYork

Columbia Law School opened the 50,000-square-foot Li Lu Law Library, funded by a $15 million donation from alumnus Li Lu, featuring a two-story reading room.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

'This year, I really see education and climate': Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott's massive giving emerge with time | Fortune

The billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits Tuesday, bringing her overall giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion. Scott first pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019 after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Since, she's distributed large, unrestricted gifts to nonprofits without asking for applications or progress reports. Largely, her giving has focused in the U.S., though not exclusively.
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fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

DACA was once a lifeline for undocumented youth. It's leaving the next generation behind

Frozen DACA applications and intensified enforcement leave many undocumented students excluded from education, work authorization, and future mobility.
fromNieman Lab
3 weeks ago

Student journalists rise to an unprecedented challenge

It's called CollegeWatch. For this job, I am reading constantly about the topic - stories we're publishing, yes, but also stories from publications big and small. What quickly struck me is the power of the work coming out of campus publications, and how little we would know about the full scale of this assault if it were not for these student journalists.
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fromNature
4 weeks ago

What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Generative AI avatars can teach university courses with LLM-driven real-time responses, and avatar realism influences student trust and acceptance.
fromNature
4 weeks ago

Will young universities set the pace in the age of AI?

Universities are facing mounting challenges. From falling enrolments to dwindling support from populist governments, many institutions are in survival mode. Throw AI into the mix as a possible solution, and it's either a lifeline or a distraction, depending on whom you ask. In the four years since our last Young Universities supplement, the context for these institutions (aged 50 or younger) has changed dramatically.
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fromHarvard Business Review
4 weeks ago

Setting Goals for Your Team When the Path Isn't Clear

To be able to see students, to get to know them, to get to see how they grow and change during these four years, and then to see them have success as they launch into the world, and then to see that they reach back so quickly to give back and to see the way that our community supports our students as they are navigating, exploring their values and their purpose and what they're feeling called to do. All of that is just really rewarding.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

A welcome pit stop: the US university using parking lots to help unhoused students

Safe parking programs provide students experiencing homelessness essential dignity, hygiene access, and temporary stability while persistent instability harms mental health and academic progress.
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fromJezebel
1 month ago

Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' After Flunking Psychology Paper in Which She Only Cites the Bible

An Oklahoma University student received a zero for a Bible-only psychology paper and filed a religious-discrimination complaint.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

Some California universities seeing decline in enrollment: Here's why

San Francisco State's enrollment fell 26% since 2015 due to regional demographic decline, increased competition from UCs/Cal States, and San Francisco's high housing costs.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Vallejo mayor also a professor at Pleasant Hill's Diablo Valley College

Andrea Sorce balances duties as Vallejo mayor and DVC economics professor, using teaching to advance government transparency, accountability, and civic engagement.
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 month ago

Vallejo mayor also a professor at Pleasant Hill's Diablo Valley College

At 39, she divides her time between shaping young minds as an economics professor at the Pleasant Hill campus of Diablo Valley College (DVC) and steering the city of Vallejo toward transparency, accountability and trust. It has been a challenge balancing the dual roles, especially because there is a lot of work to do in Vallejo, said Sorce, who says she wishes she had 40 hours in a day.
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fromPeople Work
1 month ago

The Junior Hiring Crisis

It's not very encouraging. According to very recent research from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, published in August of this year, companies that adopt AI at higher rates are hiring juniors 13% less. Another study from Harvard published in October of this year cites that early-career folks from 22-25 years old, in these same fields, are experiencing greater unemployment while senior hiring remains stable or even growing.
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