DEI bans, community college expansion, faculty tenure, accreditation, higher ed funding, & AI regulation are topics likely to be taken up by state legislatures this year.

Lawmakers should decouple accreditation from federal financing, lower caps on student lending, phase out the Parent PLUS program, and wind down loan forgiveness. Reforms proposed by the Trump ...

Instructors are evaluating how artificial intelligence impacts the main goals of education and adjusting their teaching accordingly. This leads to conversations about critical thinking and changing ...

One of the most ominous sentences in the United States begins, “In a little-known provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) passed in July….” Those 870 pages were peppered with some ugly mines.

Artificial intelligence is no longer an abstract research topic tucked away in computer science departments. It’s in search engines, writing ...

After a year that has tested the resiliency of a centuries-old sector, ideas for reinvention have emerged. Most agree that higher ed is in a moment of crisis, but few agree on what exactly is the ...

Judging colleges based on graduates’ earnings sets a sensible floor for accountability. But higher ed leaders should develop a more sophisticated approach to proving the industry’s worth. “Telling our ...

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CNN’s Harry Enten reported that faith in higher education has suffered a stunning collapse in the last decade, with “most Americans” in agreement with President Donald Trump that there’s a real ...

As part of Senate Bill 37, which passed in June 2025, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman ...

The Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education sparked an overdue conversation about the relationship between the federal government and American universities, drawing ...