Higher education

Higher education

"worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off,"

Clearly outline program costs and the support services available to military-connected learners. Colleges should also share data on military student enrollment, completion and job outcomes, such as on a dedicated military-student web page. Streamline credit transfer policies using the American Council on Education's Military Guide as a starting point for military experience. Providing quality transfer advising can also ensure maximum allowable credits are awarded for prior service and can explain how a major program may increase or decrease transferred credits.

"My adviser said that I could graduate a semester early or triple major,"

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she tried to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas. She was sent to Honduras two days later despite a court order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States, according to her attorney. Lopez Belloza, whose family emigrated from Honduras when she was 7, is now staying with her grandparents.

After graduating from high school in 2010, I enrolled at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. I grew up in an environment where I was told that college was the only path to success, so I didn't even consider taking a different route. I quickly realized, though, that college was not the right fit for me: I struggled to balance school and my social life while working part-time jobs, and it was weighing on my mental health.

Trustees approved pay hikes and eliminated salary caps for the system's executive employees - presidents, vice chancellors and the system's chancellor, Mildred García - last week after a pay analysis presented by the consulting firm Segal found that about 75% of comparable institutions pay executives more than CSU. The new executive compensation policy also includes a performance-based pay incentive up to 15% of the executive's base salary, a more competitive retirement plan and increased housing allowances ranging from $60,000 to $80,000.

"I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case," he said.

Donald Trump's administration had cut off $790m in grants in a standoff that contributed to university layoffs and the resignation in September of Northwestern's president, Michael Schill. The administration argued the school had not done enough to fight antisemitism. Under the agreement announced on Friday night, Northwestern will make the payment to the US treasury over the next three years.

Concerned that the rights of students and faculty have been violated, a national Muslim civil liberties organization has requested UC Berkeley turn over any information it has on its cooperation with a Trump administration investigation into antisemitism on campus. A California Public Records Act request was filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations' San Francisco Bay Area office on Nov. 21 in response to the university's sharing of 160 students, staff and faculty names as part of the federal probe.

As part of the funding package, the U.S. Department of Education is ending the Grad PLUS loan program, which allows prospective graduate students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance. Instead, the agency will be instituting borrowing caps, making the maximum figures dependent on whether a student is pursuing a "professional degree." Currently, the list of the graduate programs designated as professional spans a variety of fields, from medicine, dentistry, and law to more surprising inclusions like theology.

Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse -spaces where disagreement was not only tolerated but valued. Yet that ideal is under strain. Divisions between social and political groups have deepened, and polarization-especially in the U.S.-has reached historic levels. Many instructors now hesitate to invite disagreement for fear that conversations will spiral into conflict. But learning depends on dialogue. And dialogue depends on difference.

Higher education has a duty to "train the leaders of tomorrow," says the head of one of Europe's leading business schools, as geopolitics threatens to decouple economies, reverse globalization, and shake up the traditional pathways for talent and migration. "[Globally,] there is this sense of fragmentation," Vincenzo Vinzi, the dean of ESSEC Business School, tells Fortune. Essec was founded in 1907 in Paris, France, originally as the Economic Institute within the École Sainte-Geneviève.

Oakwood University supports the Trump administration's controversial compact for higher education that would require signatories to make changes to their policies in order to receive a potential edge in federal funding, Religion News Service (RNS) reported. The historically Black university in Alabama wrote a Nov. 18 letter to the Education Department about its interest in the compact. Oakwood is the second HBCU to show interest in signing on.

Although Germany has become a hub for international students and researchers, attracting a growing number of foreign scholars each year, those who remain in academia after graduation often face an intensely hierarchical system with few permanent positions. This has led many, including Goetze, to search for jobs at universities and research institutions outside the country - or, in some cases, to leave academia completely.

After suspending the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in September amid questions about an off-campus retreat, Harvard College has determined the student group didn't violate its hazing policy, after all. Federico Cortese, the student-run orchestra's music director and conductor, confirmed Harvard's Administrative Board and Dean of Students Office both dropped the hazing charge. He did not respond to a request for further comment.

The college admissions process has been so notoriously stress-inducing that students and their parents plan for it for years and - if social media is any indication - seem to consider an acceptance as among the greatest moments of their lives. But getting into college is in fact becoming easier, with admissions offices trying to entice more applicants from a declining pool of 18-year-olds. They're creating one-click applications, waiving application fees, offering admission to high school seniors who haven't even applied.

"More than 70 percent of employers say they'd rather hire someone with less experience but who understands AI than someone with more experience. That's a big change," said Lisa Gevelber, chief marketing officer for Gemini, Google's AI product.

There are moments in leadership when no one is watching but everything is at stake. Not because a policy is in question or a metric is missing, but because our moral compass is being tested in the quiet. In these moments, we do not lean on politics or public opinion. We ought to lean on what we believe to be true and on moral principles that will benefit the community we serve.

The Trump administration has opened a new investigation into protests at UC Berkeley this month in opposition to an event hosted by Turning Point USA, a conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in September. The probe by the U.S. Department of Education will review whether UC Berkeley violated the Clery Act. The federal law, enacted in 1990, requires colleges to report campus crime data and to give timely warnings of crimes that pose a threat.

Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and some other fields would face tighter federal student loan limits under the plan because it doesn't consider them professional programs. The revamp is part of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill passed by Congress. While graduate students could previously borrow loans up to the cost of their degree, the new rules would set caps depending on whether the degree is considered a graduate or professional program.

Warren also detailed what she learned as she delved into the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the department and requested a broader investigation of the dismantling. Her effort included sending eight letters to the Education Department (ED) and a meeting with Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Warren said the department "largely failed to provide complete and transparent answers" in response to her letters.

We are living through the most profound shift in human learning since the invention of the printing press. AI now writes our memos, summarizes research, drafts budgets, and even suggests strategic options. In a world where answers arrive instantly, what matters most is the quality of the mind behind the question. As Daniel Kahneman argued long before generative AI, fast answers without deep thinking are a recipe for error (Kahneman, 2011).

In a San Jose courtroom on the morning of November 19, attorneys for The Stanford Daily and two anonymous international students argued that President Donald Trump's administration has used federal law as a weapon against political dissent. The lawsuit, filed against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, asserts that the plaintiffs' First and Fifth Amendment rights have been fundamentally violated-but that it's the statutes themselves, not just the administration enforcing them, to blame.

A decade ago, we and others launched a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper. The Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) includes 14 types of contribution, from conceptualization to software and data curation. It was designed to prevent questionable authorship practices and make it easier for researchers to demonstrate the diversity of their contributions to science, among other benefits.

When it comes to cheaping out on social programs, the UK government might be a world leader. Once a shining example of what social spending can bring to a country, the UK has spent the past few decades gutting government programs, leading to a crumbling rail system, the destruction of child services, and rising education costs. And just as old programs are gutted, new initiatives seem doomed before they even start.

This week, the Education Department said it would break off several of its main offices and hand over their responsibilities to agencies like the Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior. Under the plan, those two agencies will run several programs that fund and oversee the education of Native American children and college students. Tribal leaders and Native education organizations said the move will add to budgetary confusion and a possible breakdown ins services.

Grades in law school are extremely important since they are the most critical factor when law graduates search for jobs upon entering the legal profession. Most law schools have grading curves, which can be unforgiving, as a law student's grade is often dependent on their performance on a single final exam. At certain law schools, however, law students can employ certain strategies to earn higher grades and boost their GPAs.

As the stated deadline to sign the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" arrived Friday, multiple universities have already rejected the deal while only a few institutions have expressed interest. But among the public universities that were either formally invited to sign the compact or that participated in a call with the White House to provide feedback on higher education issues, none are willing to discuss their deliberations about the proposal or interactions with federal officials.

But many faculty view their profession as a vocation, so why would they retire? One reason is because of diminished effectiveness. Ossified approaches, diminished cognitive capacity and so on are the unhappy, but inevitable, results of aging. The person experiencing these declines is generally not the best at noticing them, as they creep in so slowly that they're most visible to outsiders or when accurately comparing to yourself from long ago.

PROVO, Utah -- On the Sunday after BYU's thrilling 24-21 win over rival Utah, a few dozen senior citizens gathered in the courtyard at Jamestown Retirement Community. Two local students and some of their family members put on a concert, with favorites like Brown Eyed Girl, Country Roads and Wagon Wheel played in front of the delighted crowd. Some of those in attendance realized that among the four crooners were BYU teammates Bear and Tiger Bachmeier, who transferred to BYU from Stanford this summer.