High school and college students are embracing artificial intelligence as a learning aid rather than fearing its impact on future jobs. While educators still urge caution, many young learners are using AI tools like ChatGPT outside the classroom to save time and enhance their skills.

If you've worked in enrollment for more than a minute, you know the ground keeps moving under your feet. Fewer students. More scrutiny. A world where "AI" and "ROI" get tossed around in the same sentence as "application funnel." Strategic Enrollment Management used to focus on managing the process: recruit, admit, yield, repeat. The job now stretches far beyond that. It involves steering a complex system that balances institutional mission, market realities, and rapid technological change. So how do you lead when everything — students, staffing, policy, even purpose — feels like it's in motion? You start by asking better questions.

Scholars who have been targeted or sanctioned over their speech suffer lasting consequences beyond the initial campus controversies, a new analysis warns.