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fromBusiness Insider
2 hours ago

AI is coming for white collar jobs - but a godfather of AI still wants his grandson to go to college

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."
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fromTechCrunch
4 hours ago

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch

OpenAI is partnering with leading Indian higher-education institutions to integrate AI into academic functions and train over 100,000 students, faculty, and staff.
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fromThe Atlantic
7 hours ago

College Enters Its Chain-Store Era

Selective universities are expanding by opening full four-year satellite undergraduate campuses across the country, creating a national-chain model of undergraduate education.
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fromAbove the Law
19 hours ago

What Is This, A Louis C.K. Bit? - See Also - Above the Law

Recent developments span prosecutorial minimization of alleged sexual conduct, Defense Department limits on elite law school tuition aid, judicial restraints on ICE, and financial threats to law schools and students.
Left-wing politics
fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality

Universities have replaced churches and unions as primary institutions shaping young liberals' moral imagination, community, and political activism.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 day ago

Flood the Zone

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.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

10 things Boomers remember being free that now cost an absurd amount of money - Silicon Canals

Essential services and opportunities once affordable—such as higher education and basic banking—have become increasingly expensive, imposing heavy financial burdens on younger generations.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 day ago

Students launch legal action against universities over Covid-hit studies

Dozens of UK universities face potential legal action as thousands of students pursue compensation for Covid-19-related disruptions to teaching and library access.
fromIrish Independent
2 days ago

Over 1,100 new college places for healthcare courses to be available to students this year

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.
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fromLos Angeles Times
4 days ago

Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement

The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a court order blocking a $1.2 billion settlement against UCLA while continuing investigations into UC campuses.
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fromHarvard Gazette
4 days ago

How academia can help America heal - Harvard Gazette

An educational 'caste system' privileges elite-university graduates, restricts social mobility, and fuels populist resentment and distrust of institutions.
#academic-freedom
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 weeks ago
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University cancels class because professor won't say when LGBTQ+ issues would be discussed - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
4 weeks ago
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University cancels class because professor won't say when LGBTQ+ issues would be discussed - LGBTQ Nation

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fromeLearning Industry
5 days ago

Cohort Meaning In School: How Cohorts Work In Education

A cohort in school is a group of students who begin and progress through the same grade, course, or program together.
#foreign-funding
fromAxios
6 days ago
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Trump admin reveals first-of-its-kind funding data in elite college crackdown

fromAxios
6 days ago
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Trump admin reveals first-of-its-kind funding data in elite college crackdown

fromFortune
1 week ago

Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation | Fortune

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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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Opinion: Sociology is taking it on the chin. Here's how we can preserve this critical field of study.

Sociology faces politicized attacks, curricular exclusion, and erosion of departmental standing despite teaching critical thinking, inequality analysis, interdisciplinary synthesis, and scrutiny of power.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

The Tyranny of Disciplines

RST: Good morning, my dear hard-boiled egg. Did you have a good trip to Austin, upholding the patriarchy and extolling the manly virtues of the Western canon? EGG: You are so irritating. Old white men need to have a little space in the lexicon of human endeavors. I stand for all of them. So there!! RST: 🤮 There's been a theme in the responses I'm hearing from people about this column, and it has to do with bodily functions and fluids.
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fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

FAMU Puts 'Black' Back In Black History Month After Clearing Up Bad Legal Interpretation - Above the Law

Fearful enforcement of anti-DEI rules led FAMU law students being initially told they could not use "Black" to advertise Black History Month, a decision later reversed.
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 week ago

University class making sure Wikipedia doesn't erase LGBTQ+ history

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.
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fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Pete Hegseth Is Being Even Dumber Than Usual

Cutting military ties to Harvard embodies anti-intellectualism and undermines historical academic partnerships essential to a modern, high‑tech military.
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fromEntrepreneur
1 week ago

The Real Reason Young College Grads Can't Find Jobs

College graduates face elevated unemployment because degrees often fail to match employer needs and lack required practical skills.
fromFortune
1 week ago

As billionaires bail, Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on California with $50 million donation | Fortune

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.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychology says the more educated and intelligent a person is, the more likely they'll make this one life choice - Silicon Canals

Highly educated individuals increasingly choose singlehood, prioritizing personal growth, career fulfillment, and stricter compatibility standards over traditional relationship milestones.
#womens-and-gender-studies
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fromTheregister
1 week ago

Pakistan to test uni students for real-world tech skills

Pakistan's HEC launched the National Skill Competency Test to assess IT graduates' workplace skills and link performance to internships and university rankings.
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fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

80m student skills investment to strengthen UK defence workforce

UK Government invests £80 million to expand specialist education in engineering, cyber security and advanced manufacturing to support long-term defence industry growth and resilience.
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fromThe Washington Post
1 week ago

Faculty diversity push at universities led to modest gains before Trump ban

Federal actions and state bans have halted or reversed university faculty diversity efforts, undermining progress in hiring underrepresented professors and threatening funding.
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fromTime Out London
2 weeks ago

The London university that will become part of the UK's first 'super university'

Greenwich and Kent will merge on 1 August 2026 into the London and South East University Group, becoming the UK's third-largest university.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 weeks ago

Greenhill School - Rosa O. Valdes STEM and Innovation Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

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.
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fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

California colleges scramble to fill gaps left by federal grant cuts to Latino students

Federal cuts eliminate over $350 million in minority-serving institution grants, forcing colleges like Chico State to lose millions and cut student research and support programs.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Thoughts on Bryan Alexander's new book 'Peak Higher Ed'

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.)
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Need for Better Accommodations for ADHD in Higher Ed

Insufficient, non-evidence-based college accommodations and excessive executive-functioning expectations cause low graduation rates among students with ADHD, harming individuals and society.
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fromNature
2 weeks ago

China's relationship with foreign scientific powers is changing rapidly

China's post-1979 opening boosted US–China scientific collaboration and career mobility, yet domestically educated scholars increasingly dominate leadership of elite Chinese academies.
#leadership
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

It's Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College

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.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Abortion Rights Advocate Talk Canceled After TPUSA Pressure

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."
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

DeVry Embeds AI Literacy in All Courses

"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."
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Averett Sells Athletic Facilities

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.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Indiana University Football (and Others) Just Need to Go Pro

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?
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fromHoodline
2 weeks ago

Sac State Delays Return-To-Office Order After Staff Pushback

misguided and damaging to staff morale,
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fromBusiness Matters
2 weeks ago

Yasir G. Hamed: Building Bridges Through Education and Service

Career emphasizes deep learning, broad service, purposeful leadership, focusing on people, systems, language, and global perspectives across refugee services and higher education.
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Last Safe Place to Go to College

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.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Trump has sued universities for billions. Here's what the strategy tells us

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.
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fromSacramento Bee
2 weeks ago

Sac State delays return-to-office directive amid staff push-back

Sacramento State is ending most telework for Academic Affairs staff, phasing them back to campus through July to increase campus presence and student support.
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fromThe Oaklandside
2 weeks ago

Samuel Merritt University's 2,000 students arrive in downtown Oakland

A new 10-story Samuel Merritt University campus downtown brings 2,000 students and 500 staff to boost local economy and healthcare workforce development.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
2 weeks ago

Samuel Merritt University's $240M campus will bring 2,000 students to downtown Oakland

Samuel Merritt University opened a new 10-story downtown Oakland campus, bringing about 2,000 students and 500 staff to help revitalize the city's urban core.
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fromwww.dailynews.com
3 weeks ago

California lawmaker wants to make it easier for churches and colleges to build affordable housing

Federal bill would allow faith-based organizations and colleges to build affordable rental housing on their land and incentivize local governments to remove zoning and permitting barriers.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

Yale Announces Free Tuition for Families Making Under $200K

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.
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fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

Yale to waive all costs for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000

Yale will eliminate tuition and other costs for new undergraduates from families earning under $100,000 and waive tuition for families under $200,000.
#free-speech
fromFuturism
4 weeks ago
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They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

fromFuturism
4 weeks ago
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They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

New Bill Would Consolidate Mississippi Community Colleges

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.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Born after the Arab Spring: 37 million Egyptians have no memory of 2011

Egypt's population surged to nearly 120 million since 2011, remaining very young while economic gains lag, with job creation failing to meet annual needs.
#generative-ai
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fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

CSU faculty settle with university on disclosure of personal data to federal investigators

CSU must notify employees before complying with subpoenas seeking personal identifying information, unless notification is prohibited by law.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

Florida Proposes H-1B Hiring Ban at All Public Universities

All Florida public universities would be banned from hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas under a policy change that the Florida Board of Governors will consider next week. Next Thursday, the board's Nomination and Governance Committee will consider adding to a policy a line saying the universities can't "utilize the H-1B program in its personnel program to hire any new employees through January 5, 2027." If the committee and full Board of Governors approve the addition, there will be a 14-day public comment period.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
3 weeks ago

British Army to offer funded 'drone degree' at university to 'fast track careers' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

The UK Ministry of Defence will fund a university drone degree to train civilian and military drone specialists, starting September 2026 in Hereford.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

Empowered Virginia Democrats Move Fast to Reshape Higher Ed

When Virginia's new Democratic leaders took control of the governor's office and attorney general position last week, they wasted no time overhauling higher ed. Abigail Spanberger, the new governor, immediately appointed more than two dozen members to the governing boards of the Virginia Military Institute, George Mason University and the University of Virginia, meaning she's already appointed the majority of members on the George Mason and UVA boards.
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fromLos Angeles Times
4 weeks ago

Trump drops court fight to enact its anti-DEI push at schools. But the 'damage is done'

In a federal court filing, the U.S. government said it would drop its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked its campaign against DEI in K-12 schools and higher education institutions - which it alleged discriminated against white students and employees - leaving in place a lower court finding that the effort violated the 1st Amendment and federal procedural rules.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
4 weeks ago

Settlements Cost Higher Ed Hundreds of Millions in 2025

A new report by the United Educators insurance company shows that universities spent hundreds of millions of dollars on damages in 2025, according to an analysis of publicly reported settlements. Legal cases involved a variety of issues, ranging from deaths on campus to antitrust issues, cybersecurity breaches, discrimination, sexual misconduct and pandemic-era policy fallout. Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had the largest settlement at $750 million.
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fromNew York Post
4 weeks ago

Exclusive | Woke Brooklyn College course lectures students about 'weaponizing whiteness,' requires BuzzFeed privilege quiz

Brooklyn College psychology students must take a Multicultural Counseling course teaching whiteness, privilege quizzes, microaggression identification, and racial healing activities.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
4 weeks ago

4 Takeaways From Trump's First Year in Office

Within a month, Trump officials had threatened colleges' research funding, started gutting the Institute for Education Sciences, declared race-based programming illegal and unleashed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on campuses, among other actions. Then, over the next six months, the administration started dismantling the Education Department, cut thousands of research grants that didn't align with Trump'spriorities, helped oust the University of Virginia's president and cracked down on international students-deporting some who criticized Israel and revoking the visas of thousands.
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fromNature
4 weeks ago

'Every aspect of my work life has changed' - scientists reflect on a year of Trump

Executive orders and funding changes during Trump's first year intensified campus censorship, worsened higher-education inequity, and risked access for low-income and LGBTQ+ students.
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