While AI that is confined and structured can be useful in higher education settings, AI that is unpredictable, unmanageable and unexplainable has the potential to lead institutions down a dangerous road.
While certificates have become a proven strategy to re-enroll stops outs, young adults and everything in between, postgraduate learners are catching on.
Despite scattered efforts to globalize higher education and eradicate inequity, colleges and universities are slowly reverting to old habits, says this outgoing leader of the International Association of University Presidents
Over half (56%) of all surveyed higher ed leaders stated their revenue increased this most recent fiscal year, a 12 percentage-point bump over last year, according to BDO, a financial consulting firm.
Since its peak in the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022, total funding for OPMs has declined 97% up through the first half of 2024, according to Validated Insights.
"I felt a black eye on me and my leadership team," the six-year Cedar Crest College president says. "I had a meeting where I said, 'Everything is on the table.'"
The pandemic brought new attention to student mental health on campus. But can higher ed curb misinformation or adapt to emerging concerns tied to social media?
The report's authors noted that this gap may vary—or even be wider—at institutions that do not stress discipline as intensely as West Point. Also: what does this presidential candidate's bid to cut "unnecessary" college degree mean for you?
