How Faculty Use Workplace Experience to Help Students

Faculty-to-industry bridge programs have been popular for years, but this summer the professor-externs are focused on bringing AI skills and understanding back to their students.

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Princeton Introduces Proctoring, Changing Honor Code

Policy and tradition compelled students to monitor their peers and report them for suspected cheating. But as AI use becomes prevalent, students have reached their breaking point.

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Half of Campus Tech Leaders Question AI’s ROI

Our annual survey of CTOs found growing institutional reliance on artificial intelligence, coupled with concerns about value, cybersecurity and more.

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Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder

ASU debuted the web app quietly this month and faculty—whose content the AI pulls from—are concerned about how it works and who can access it.

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Presidents Puzzled on Rebuilding Public Trust in Higher Ed

Presidents give poor marks to higher ed on rebuilding public trust, yet may be overrelying on institutional messaging in their own efforts. Experts help fill in the trust puzzle.

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How DOGE Gutted the NEH in 22 Days

Internal documents show how leadership at the National Endowment for the Humanities handed over the grant termination process to DOGE and ChatGPT.

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Why ROI Is Tied to More Than Major

Rasheem Rooke has used TikTok to try to help families better understand the cost of college and what students should do to get the most out of their experience.

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Buzzy UCSD Math Readiness Report Failed to Mention Calculator Ban

Instead, the authors pinned the change on COVID-19 and an increase in low-income student enrollments. It’s unclear whether they knew about the calculator policy change.

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Town vs. Gown Battles Brew in Pennsylvania, Colorado

Valley Forge Military College is fighting an effort by the local township to seize part of its property, while Colorado State is locked in conflict over contentious campus billboards.

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Why Higher Ed Is Leaning Into Apprenticeships

Colleges are facing “a perfect storm.” Is adding apprenticeship pathways a way through?

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Defense Dept. Weighs Ending Grad Aid at 35 Institutions

The Department of Defense is considering ending tuition assistance for active-duty military members in graduate programs at 33 highly selective U.S. universities—plus the London School of Economics an...

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After “Rupture,” Science Leaders Call for More Advocacy

The Trump administration’s seismic disruptions to the academic research enterprise were top of mind at the annual meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science in Phoenix last week...

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To Reach Students, College Marketers Prioritize AI Visibility

Students are using AI tools to decide where to apply to college, pushing institutional leaders to find ways to ensure that AI chatbots include their college in the conversation.

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OSU Professor On Leave After Tackling Documentarian

An Ohio State University spokesperson called the incident “very concerning.” Campus police are investigating.

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How Congress’s Budget Could Hamper Trump ED Agenda

Democratic lawmakers pushed for several guardrails in an attempt to restrict how the White House doles out federal funds.

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EAB Report Finds Confluence of Pressures on Higher Ed

A new report from EAB finds colleges are battered by political, social and market forces, resulting in a sector with less autonomy and tighter margins than in past downturns.

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ED Tells Universities Not to Use Student Voting Data

The department announced Thursday it’s investigating Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse over alleged student privacy violations in the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engag...

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Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges

Regional and community college professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions.

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Top 12 Findings From Inside Higher Ed’s Surveys in 2025

Here’s what our annual surveys of higher ed leaders and students revealed.

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Beyond Tuition: The Hidden Costs of College and Their Disproportionate Impact | Inside Higher Ed

College affordability conversations tend to focus on tuition. But it’s the total cost of attendance (COA) that can catch many students off guard and derail their progress toward a degree. A new deep-d...

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ED Designates 23% of Colleges “Lower Earnings”

The colleges on the list enroll fewer than 3 percent of undergraduates.

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The NIH Policy Holding Researchers “Hostage”

An effort to make NIH-funded research immediately accessible to the public has led to disruption and financial strain for scientists already navigating a precarious funding environment. It also spotli...

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Mistaken Anti-DEI Guidance Stokes Research Fears Under Trump

Scholars were outraged after The Excellence in Education Journal told authors to make sure their work didn’t violate Trump’s anti-DEI order. Days later, the journal’s editor-in-chief retracted the gui...

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Ind. May Reject Degrees That Don’t Commit to American “Values”

Indiana may reject proposed degree programs at public institutions that don’t “cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values of American society.” Earlier this month, the Indiana Co...

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Jim Ryan Breaks Silence on UVA Resignation

The former University of Virginia president who resigned abruptly in June accused the board of being dishonest about the circumstances of his exit and complicit in his ouster.

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Texas A&M Requires Approval for Courses That “Advocate” Certain Ideologies

Many faculty members decried the new restrictions on race- and gender-related courses as an assault on academic freedom. Meanwhile, the board also discussed a once-per-semester systemwide course revie...

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Deep Dive Report: The Hidden Costs of College Beyond Tuition

College affordability conversations tend to focus on tuition. But it’s the total cost of attendance (COA) that can catch many students off guard and derail their progress toward a degree.

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