Alabama college and university enrollment is trending upward again this year, according to preliminary data from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. University enrollment increased 2.4% in 2024 from last year and community college enrollment went up 12.7%. And an increasing number of Alabama high school students are attending school in-state. One of the state’s […]

When Darren Hick, a philosophy professor, first came across an AI-generated essay in late 2022, he knew it was just the start of something bigger. Almost two years later, Hick says the use of AI among students has become a “virus.” “All plagiarism has become AI plagiarism at this point,” Hick, who teaches philosophy at […]

Americans have completely lost confidence in college. That's the common narrative in a seemingly never-ending scroll of media reports and surveys raising the alarms about falling enrollment and political controversies on campus.

Universities, once struggling to keep up with the surge in demand for counseling during the pandemic, have since scaled up their support services. As a result, more students are asking for help.