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 ...

The clearest indicator of higher education’s decline is that fewer and fewer young people want to earn a bachelor’s degree. The share of high school seniors who say they do not want to graduate from ...

Jeffrey C. Dixon is a faculty representative on the College of the Holy Cross Institutional Review of Artificial Intelligence Task Force. Debates about generative artificial intelligence on college ...

John Ellis’s op-ed “Higher Ed Needs Receivership, Not Reform” (Nov. 11) is an overdue breath of fresh air about the sorry state of our universities. Yet he leaves out financial reform as one of the ...

A budding coalition of higher education advocates called on state leaders, in a report out Thursday, to allocate more money from the so-called “millionaires’ tax” to students at Massachusetts public ...

I n a recent poll, the Pew Research Center found that “seven in 10 Americans now say the higher-education system in the United States is generally going in the wrong direction.” The finding confirms ...

Journal Editorial Report: MIT rejects the President’s college ‘compact.’ Of the 10 sections of President Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the second is the real key to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Even with the ...

Few things about the way Texas schools operate are easy to understand. Parents have to jump through hoops to get their kids screened for special education and then attend regular meetings to ensure ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — New federal regulations are reshaping how public colleges and universities approach accessibility across their digital environments. At the 2025 EDUCAUSE conference in Nashville ...

A controversial higher education compact from the Trump administration has sparked a petition from several University of Alaska unions, who say they’re worried about political overreach stifling ...

C ritics of generative AI have described it as a threat to higher education, and to the humanities in particular. The critics are right. Large language models (LLMs) perform core educational functions ...