To succeed in a career, you have to know the technical minutiae of your field, of course. But you also need to be a complete person-the kind of person other people want to engage with.
Around 1.9 million people with university-level qualifications were at risk of poverty in 2025, an increase of 350,000 compared with 2022. The figures from Germany's official statistics office were released in response to a request from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). The rise comes as the number of graduates grew to 21 million nationwide. Yet data from the Federal Employment Agency show unemployment among academics climbed to 3.3%, up from 2.2% three years earlier.
You won't see students studying together in a library, images of grand campus buildings or crowded athletic events in a new campaign promoting higher education. There are no logos, no mascots and no official colors. Instead, an elderly couple walk arm in arm smiling, with "Proud sponsor of a better life for everyone" printed across the image. Sparks fly from a welder's electrode just behind the words "Proud sponsor of the future titans of industry."
All but 14 of the 45 universities placed under investigation for participating in the PhD Project and allegedly violating civil rights law have agreed to cease partnering with the organization, the Education Department announced Thursday. The Office for Civil Rights launched the investigations last March, arguing that the PhD Project, a nonprofit organization that connects prospective business doctoral candidates from underrepresented backgrounds with academic networks, was "limit[ing] eligibility based on the race of participants."
"It got me to thinking about political lines, pendulums, they're always moving ... I kind of think that way about tenure," Republican Justin Lafferty told his subcommittee Wednesday in a brief but wide-ranging explanation for dropping the bill. According to a video of the meeting posted on the state General Assembly's website, Lafferty said tenure goes back to the 1600s or 1700s, "a time when there weren't that many highly educated folks," so "it was very important to keep the best and the brightest."
Bengio quickly responded "yes," adding: "Education is really important, and education, contrary to what some people think, isn't just about acquiring the skills to get a job. "Education is, in my opinion, mostly about how to become a better human being, how to understand yourself, how to understand our society and each other."
As the Class of 2026 prepares to enter the workforce this summer, they-like last year's graduates and those already in the job market-are facing what economists now call a "low hire, low fire" economy. Whether this is driven by AI or other economic factors remains hotly debated, but the causes are beside the point for new grads looking for jobs postgraduation in an economy marked by a pullback in early-career hiring.
Fresh €28.5m investment will benefit several disciplines Over 1,100 extra third-level places for students who want to study for a career in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and other healthcare professions will become available in colleges across the country this year under a new €28.5m investment. The announcement on Monday by Further and Higher Education Minister James Lawless comes amid high demand for these courses, which has left significant numbers of students with no option but to travel abroad to pursue their studies.
Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete, Thriving in the future will come not from collecting credentials but from cultivating unique perspectives, agency, emotional awareness, and strong human bonds. I encourage young people to focus on two things: the art of connecting deeply with others, and the inner work of connecting with themselves.
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During those 10 years, her students have created 63 new articles and edited 588 others, adding 332,000 words and more than 3,000 citations across pages that have collectively been viewed more than 900 million times. "As a professor, I am really proud of the impact my students are having to make sure that Wikipedia reflects the diversity of the world," Rodríguez told PinkNews.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled the gift on Jan. 28, tying it to a major redevelopment of three vacant state office buildings on Sacramento's Capitol Mall into a downtown campus. The gift from Zuckerberg and Meta will fund abatement, demolition, and initial construction of the campus, enabling new student housing alongside new academic spaces, including STEM facilities and an AI center.
Founded in 1950, Greenhill School is a leading independent day school serving nearly 1,400 students in the north Dallas suburb of Addison. A campus of venerable buildings and welcoming outdoor spaces provides an inclusive and interconnected educational setting. Seeking a transformative STEM and Innovation facility to empower students to collaborate and problem-solve in new ways, Greenhill engaged our practice to design a flexible, high-performing environment that could serve as a teaching tool for sustainability.
Broadly speaking, he identifies the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first as exemplifying growth. Growth describes enrollment, of course, but also the pace of technological and economic advancement that was, in part, enabled by the growth of higher education. (The first community college, Joliet Junior College, was founded in 1901, starting a chain reaction of institutional growth that peaked in the 1960s.)
Well before "AI" had entered the lexicon of evening newscasters, the university model of higher-education was in trouble. Between 2010 and 2022 - the year ChatGPT came out - university enrollment dropped nearly 15 percent throughout the US. State funding cuts pushed already exorbitant tuition costs onto even more students, forcing many to ask whether a college education was even worth the staggering investment.
Health Sciences Center and Texas Tech University system spokespeople didn't return Inside Higher Ed's requests for comment Thursday on who within the institution decided to nix the speech, but the Health Sciences Center sent a statement to the Scorecard saying the center "evaluated the request and determined that it is not in the best interest of the university to host this event on campus."
"What I've realized from talking to employers and watching workforce trends is AI skills are going to be a baseline and a necessity, and perhaps may even be a basic requirement for job descriptions," Awwad said. "So we've got to take ownership of that as educators, and we've got to get our students prepared for what's happening."
Seeking financial stability, Averett University has sold its North Campus athletic facilities in an $18 million deal that will allow it to lease back the nearby 70-acre site, Cardinal News reported. The property is located about a 10-minute drive from Averett's main campus in Virginia. The site was purchased by local entities: the Danville Regional Foundation and the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority, which each own 50 percent of the property, according to Averett's announcement.
Is she the MVP for calling in Indiana state troopers to arrest protesting students on her campus, an action that included snipers on the roof of a campus building? Is President Whitten the MVP for IU's attempt to enforce a "no-trespass" order on a group of IU faculty, grad students and alumni, which led to institutional sanctions, sanctions that were later invalidated on First Amendment grounds in a federal court?
Initially, I surveyed the situation from the safe distance of a journalist who happens to also be a career professor and university administrator. I saw myself as an envoy between America's college campuses and its citizens, telling the stories of the people whose lives had been shattered by these transformations. By the summer, though, that safe distance had collapsed back on me.
A year ago, President Trump issued an executive order that put U.S. universities on notice. The Jan. 29, 2025, directive targeted antisemitism on campus and launched investigations at five schools later widened to 60. But within weeks of the executive order, federal agencies started withholding billions of dollars in contracts and grants from several high-profile schools and pressuring them to align their policies more closely with Trump's on a range of issues that extended beyond antisemitism.
About 80 percent of American households have incomes under $200,000, according to the university's Tuesday announcement. For families who earn less than $100,000, Yale will now cover the full cost of attendance. Yale began covering the full cost of attendance for families making under $65,000 annually in 2010 through the university's "zero parent share" scholarship; the university raised the income threshold to $75,000 in 2020. Currently, over 1,000 students receive a zero parent share award.
The bill has been referred to the House Universities and Colleges Committee for review. If signed into law, the bill would merge the Mississippi Delta and Coahoma community college districts, the East Mississippi and Meridian community college districts, and the Copiah-Lincoln and Southwest Mississippi community college districts by July 2027. The move would reduce the number of community colleges in the state from 15 to 12.
