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MacKenzie Scott gifts and HBCU hiring: money meets pathways
MacKenzie Scott’s 2025 philanthropy redirected more than $700 million to historically Black colleges and universities, bringing her total HBCU support to over $1.2 billion and funding flexible,...
Texas A&M stands by firing — academic-freedom fight heads to court
Texas A&M System officials declined to reinstate instructor Melissa McCoul, upholding her September dismissal and saying the separation was for “good cause,” Vice Chancellor James Hallmark wrote...
Harvard’s anti‑woke turn: campus debate narrows
A recent critique argues Harvard’s shift against so-called ‘woke’ campus practices has arrived and tightened the boundaries of permissible debate, prompting concern from faculty and students about...
The 'crisis of the humanities' is over — but threats remain
Scholars Eric Hayot and Matt Seybold argued the conventional narrative of a humanities “crisis” has passed, but warned that higher education now faces coordinated attacks from political forces and...
MIT Sloan hiring rebounds – compensation splits the story
MIT Sloan’s Class of 2025 saw a sharp rebound in placement rates while pay outcomes diverged. Three months after graduation 91.0% of Sloan job seekers had received offers (up from 85.1% for the...
B‑schools brace for 2026... AI is ubiquitous, judgment becomes scarce
Leading management‑education figures laid out a common theme for 2026: AI will be ubiquitous in classrooms and programs, but human judgment and relational skills will emerge as the scarce...
Admissions and hiring: avoid application pitfalls — stack microcredentials
Admissions advisers and employers are sending the same signal: traditional application missteps still cost candidates admission offers while employers increasingly prize short, demonstrable...
HEC Paris EMBA outcomes — alumni pivot to strategy and health ventures
Profiles of HEC Paris Executive MBA alumni show graduates moving into entrepreneurship, healthcare strategy and cross‑sector leadership. François Carle describes using the EMBA to shift from...
OpenAI hires preparedness chief: Hinton warns AI will replace many jobs
OpenAI posted a high‑profile opening for a “head of preparedness” to manage risks from its technology, offering $555,000 plus equity — a signal that the company is institutionalizing safety and...
Academic freedom clashes: Texas A&M stands by firing — Harvard debate intensifies
Texas A&M announced it will not reinstate Melissa McCoul, the instructor dismissed after a viral classroom confrontation over a gender‑identity lesson. The system’s vice chancellor for academic...
State overhauls and the humanities: New College flips, scholars sound alarms
Florida’s New College has been reshaped under state leadership, with curricular changes, personnel shifts and ideological signals that mirror national debates over course content and campus...
MacKenzie Scott funnels major dollars to HBCUs — alumni hiring in focus
MacKenzie Scott directed more than $700 million to historically Black colleges and universities this year, bringing her total giving to HBCUs past $1.2 billion. The grants are largely...
CTE and AI: districts revamp career education, educators get new tools
Career and technical education (CTE) programs are expanding and integrating AI into curricula as districts prepare students for an AI‑tinged labor market. EdWeek’s reporting and related quizzes...
Plyler under pressure — principals want new skills as policy risks rise
The 1982 Supreme Court ruling in Plyler v. Doe, which guarantees undocumented children access to public K‑12 education, faced multiple state‑level challenges in 2025. While most attempts stalled,...
Texas A&M stands by dismissal – instructor’s reinstatement denied
Texas A&M confirmed it will not reinstate Melissa McCoul after her September firing over a classroom gender-identity lesson, the university’s system vice chancellor for academic affairs concluded...
New College of Florida reshaped – DeSantis appointees remake campus
New College of Florida has been transformed under Governor Ron DeSantis’ overhaul, with curricular and personnel shifts that moved the formerly progressive liberal-arts campus toward a...
Humanities under fire – campus debate over free expression deepens
A surge of opinion and analysis argues that humanities faculties and campus expression are under renewed constraint, with critics pointing to limits on syllabi, hiring, and classroom debate. At...
Plyler’s future uncertain: states press attacks on undocumented students’ rights
Legal and legislative moves in 2025 have prompted renewed scrutiny of Plyler v. Doe — the 1982 Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing undocumented children access to K‑12 public education. Education...
MacKenzie Scott pours billions into HBCUs — alumni hiring patterns follow
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott boosted support for historically Black colleges and universities in 2025, contributing more than $700 million to HBCUs this year and more than $1.2 billion since...
Business schools confront AI pivot — rankings and strategies shift
Thought leaders across top management programs outlined 2026 as the year business schools move from AI experimentation to deliberate strategy, emphasizing judgment, ethics and human skills...