Corporatization of education attracts transactional people, in direct opposition to many in the sector who believe education serves the public good.

Notre Dame reported spending $750,000 on their lobbyists in 2025, focusing efforts on a wide range of issues pertaining to research, athletics and immigration, among others.

Artificial intelligence has exposed structural flaws in higher education, according to one scholar. Hollis Robbins, a professor of English and special adviser for humanities at the University of Utah, ...

It’s time for universities to stop raising tuition and start cutting costs. For years, the narrative of “state disinvestment in public higher education” has shaped the national debate about soaring ...

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Voters in four states supported various bond initiatives or other funding measures for higher education in this year's election. In Rhode Island, voters approved all four bond questions that were ...

One of the most ominous sentences in the United States begins, “In a little-known provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) passed in July….” Those 870 pages were peppered with some ugly mines.

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial ...

Imagine a trembling undergraduate standing before the president of a university. “It will take me more than 10 years to earn ...

It has become something of a reflex to describe higher education as slow. In moments of rapid change, including the rise of generative artificial intelligence, shifting workforce demands and new ...

Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ...

The Trump administration and its allies are upending American higher education: freezing funding, launching investigations, ratcheting up taxes, and threatening to do much more. Not so long ago this ...