Admissions offices are slowly integrating generative AI into their tool boxes to manage ballooning application pools while also easing staff burnout and other workload issues.
If left unaddressed, academic burnout could transform our institutions of higher education into "burnout shops" for faculty and students. The implications of such a transformation are far-reaching.
A recent study found that 76% of students said the financial aid amount awarded to them, and the overall financial aid process, was the top driver in their choice about where to go to college.
Schools will be allowed to pay future players with something more than scholarships. They can give them cash but that's about all we know. The rest is uncharted territory and there are many more questions than answers.
University of Miami President Julio Frenk is switching coasts in January to take on the top job at UCLA, becoming its first Latino president. University of Washington's longtime president is sticking to her planned resignation date.
The measures lay out scholarship programs which would require students, in exchange for financial help, to commit to working in one of those fields in Pennsylvania after graduation.
Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro has set his sights on Pennsylvania's 10 state-run and 15 community colleges, pitching a major overhaul that would combine the two systems, boost funding, and eventually cap tuition at $1,000 per semester for many families.
Often, those who end up incarcerated have a traumatic experience with academics. They're labeled as a "bad kid" because they struggle in school or were excessively punished.
Many students across the country are heading into the summer still figuring out their college future after a botched rollout of the revamped FAFSA form this year.
Wealthy Republican- and Libertarian-backed megadonors are funding think tanks, influencing political thought and are largely behind recent attacks against university governance structures, declares a whitepaper by the American Association of University Professors.
