How one president is creating new pathways for older students

Western New Mexico University's president uses his nontraditional experience to fuel a bold vision for higher education.

Does moving mountains for athletes leave working students behind?

Institutions should invest in a concierge-like experience for working learners with the same urgency, creativity, and institutional commitment they devote to athletics.

Here is new proof that experiential learning works

A job-focused, online accelerator boosted outcomes for underserved students and their classmates, research shows.

More high school grads are going to college—and staying

New research delivers slim but welcome news for college leaders about students' enrollment habits. Here's what you need to know.

4 ways to teach inquiry in the new age of AI

As AI makes answer production easier, colleges should give students more responsibility for deciding what problems deserve solving in the first place.

Does moving mountains for athletes leave working students behind?

Institutions should invest in a concierge-like experience for working learners with the same urgency, creativity, and institutional commitment they devote to athletics.

Here is a strong case for hybrid enterprise services

Universities need shared standards and infrastructure without giving up the local relationships that make service effective.

Here are 3 important steps toward economic equilibrium

Economic equilibrium is a sustainable state in which revenues support the academic mission while preserving the capacity to respond to challenges and pursue opportunities.

Workforce readiness starts with how campuses communicate

What tends to go unexamined is how campuses themselves communicate day to day, and what that teaches students about how information is supposed to move.

New earnings rules threaten schools that take a wait-and-see approach

Schools that fail to look at the reality of their students’ earning potential face an existential risk.

Why higher ed has to embrace and embed AI now

We must lean into AI use while teaching students to engage with it ethically and purposefully. That means being specific about what’s acceptable.

Career readiness is now about closing the skills gap

We should treat career readiness the same way we address degree completion; with the same precision, sequence, and accountability as the curriculum itself.

How to redesign campus wellness for nontraditional students

Ever wonder why institutions that serve working adults—even the ones that are mostly online—still have clubs, organizations, mascots, and graduation walks?

Navigating the endowment squeeze with AI and better data

Never in recent memory have colleges, universities and their endowments been under more scrutiny—and more pressure to perform.

Nike co-founder gives $1B to University of Oregon in historic donation

Phil Knight and wife, Penny, make largest known donation to a public university to fund a new engineering school.

The Education Dept. hasn’t been dismantled. It’s become more inefficient, staff say

NPR found that changes over the last 18 months have cost an unknown amount of taxpayer dollars and made the agency's work more complex and potentially inefficient.

Student loans face an ‘emergency,’ 90 groups warn

Borrowers face unprecedented confusion, miscalculated payments, and lost forgiveness credit as the department implements drastic changes, a coalition of national organizations and state student loan ombudspersons says.

‘We’ve simplified it’: Education Department rolls out FAFSA form earlier than ever before

The Department of Education says the change will help families navigate the rising cost of college amid affordability concerns.