The state of jail larger ed a 12 months after Pell restoration

A call by Congress to restore Pell Grants to incarcerated college students took impact final summer time, a win for college kids and their advocates after imprisoned individuals attending school have been barred from the federal monetary assist for nearly three a long time. A 12 months later, schools and corrections businesses have made vital…

The right way to harness the complete potential of upper ed employees members (opinion)

I’m a employees member with a Ph.D. who has taken an alternate tutorial profession path from a contingent college member to an tutorial designer place. My skilled journey in greater training by no means uncovered me to the broad scope of roles and duties that employees members play to assist a university. In spite of…

After Chevron, larger ed ought to put together for chaos (opinion)

Final Thursday, whereas offering a federal coverage replace to an viewers of campus attorneys on the Nationwide Affiliation of School and College Attorneys annual assembly, I used to be requested what I believed would occur if the Supreme Court docket overturned its decades-old Chevron doctrine (because it was extensively anticipated to do). My preliminary reply…

There’s plenty of STFU going round in greater ed nowadays.

There’s lots of people saying different individuals must STFU going round in greater schooling not too long ago. Arguing at a U.S. appeals court docket in protection of the “Cease Woke” act, an lawyer representing the State of Florida instructed the justices that the state might “insist that professors not provide—or espouse, I ought to…

Protests additional harmed belief in increased training

Professional-Palestinian campus protests through the spring semester seem to have additional undermined public belief in increased training, in accordance with a examine that the advertising and marketing agency SimpsonScarborough launched in the present day. The protests, which sprawled throughout greater than 100 campuses from coast to coast, captured nationwide headlines and drew the wrath of…

Greater schooling has not been forgotten by generative AI

Starting with concern over the potential for plagiarism and dishonest by means of using generative synthetic intelligence (GenAI) chatbots, larger schooling has paid consideration to the event of this expertise. Quickly, educators got here to comprehend that the depth and scope of the AI revolution was such that it will require some adaptation within the…

Congress targets unrepresentative sliver of upper ed

Following an explosive listening to in December about campus antisemitism, Home Republicans have been ramping up their investigations of America’s faculties and universities. However greater than six months later, the Congressional scrutiny has been targeting a small variety of establishments that don’t characterize the hundreds of schools and universities in the US and solely enroll…