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A renewed public push to reconsider early-decision admissions surfaced this week after readers responded to an essay labeling the practice an unfair 'racket.' The commentary prompted a wave of...

An EPA decision to terminate a grant supporting wildfire-smoke health research interrupted an active project led by Marina Vance, a university-based investigator. Vance had been studying...

Policymakers and researchers escalated warnings about synthetic media this week, urging technical fixes and regulatory steps to blunt the deepfake threat on campuses and in public life. New York...

A new Vanguard analysis upended common narratives about AI-driven job destruction, finding that the roughly 100 occupations deemed most exposed to AI automation have outperformed others in job...

Greg Hart, a long-time Amazon executive, is translating lessons from Amazon leadership into Coursera’s push to scale workforce upskilling, particularly in generative AI. Hart told reporters he...

Management scholars published evidence this month that professionally run offsite retreats strengthen connections across organizations and can reshape working relationships in ways that matter for...

Jeffrey R. Holland, former president of Brigham Young University and a senior leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at 85, creating a vacancy that will affect both church...

Deepfake quality has reached a level that will reliably fool ordinary viewers in 2026, researchers say, raising urgent risks for campuses, campus elections and academic integrity. A computer...

Academic experiments show autonomous trading agents can converge on tacit collusion in simulated markets, prompting questions about how universities train and test AI before deployment. A...

Local zoning votes in Arizona and executive testimony at industry events show AI infrastructure is reshaping rural land use and straining supply chains critical to university research...

The Environmental Protection Agency pulled a grant supporting Marina Vance’s research into countering health impacts of wildfire smoke, with the agency saying the work is now “no longer...

A new study finds an increasing number of distressed student‑loan borrowers are successfully shedding debt through simplified bankruptcy processes, suggesting previously prohibitive legal barriers...

Author Malcolm Gladwell told a podcast audience that students pursuing STEM should avoid Harvard unless they can be in the top quarter of their class, arguing elite environments risk pushing some...

Northwestern’s Kellogg School reported median total compensation for the Class of 2025 returned to a record $200,500 even as early hiring metrics softened slightly — 88% had offers within three...

Coursera’s CEO Greg Hart, drawing on lessons from Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, is steering the platform to scale generative‑AI learning: the site now lists thousands of AI courses as employers...

Surveys and reporting show a majority of teachers routinely work more than 40 hours a week and many lose sleep over job stressors, with classroom behavior, student discipline and social‑media...

Corporate leaders from Amazon, Accenture and others told Gen Z jobseekers to embrace curiosity, take on difficult problems and develop ownership of their careers even as entry‑level hiring slows....

Marina Vance, an environmental-health researcher, had a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to study household defenses against wildfire smoke rescinded after the agency deemed the work “no...

New warnings from academics and policymakers say synthetic media has matured to the point ordinary viewers will be routinely fooled. A computer scientist tracking deepfakes reported that voice...

A pioneer of machine teaching who led efforts at Microsoft argued that building reliable autonomous AI requires structured practice environments and multi-agent orchestration, not single-model...