After a bruising two-year stretch defined by political controversy, leadership instability and a botched presidential hire, the University of Florida has zeroed in on a veteran red-state academic leader as its next president: longtime University of Alabama President Stuart Bell.

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.

David A. Thomas will leave Morehouse College having increased applications from high-achieving students and raised more funds than any of the school's previous leaders. In other moves, Berklee College of Music has picked its next president.

Employers are souring on Ivy League and Ivy-Plus institutions and have elected the next banner of institutions producing the highest-performing professionals, according to a new breakdown from Forbes.