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Dual enrollment pipeline: Minnesota student earns associate while in high school
A Minnesota student used the state’s Post‑Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program to earn an associate degree before finishing high school, demonstrating a pathway that saved time and tuition...
Streamlining purchases to fight faculty burnout — five procurement fixes
Campus procurement teams can cut faculty administrative burdens by consolidating vendor access, integrating Amazon Business via Punchout, and improving e‑procurement search, according to a...
AI in the academy... assessments rewritten as smaller models rise
Educators are rethinking assessment design as students increasingly use AI tools to complete assignments; classrooms are adopting honor‑code disclosures, in‑person checks and project‑based...
INSEAD ranking: Singapore overtakes Switzerland as top global talent hub
INSEAD and the Portulans Institute released the 2025 Global Talent Competitiveness Index ranking Singapore No. 1, displacing Switzerland after a decade. The report — authored by Felipe Monteiro...
Northwestern to pay $75 million — restores federal research funding
Northwestern University struck a settlement with the Trump administration to pay $75 million to the U.S. Treasury and undo a 2024 campus agreement in order to restore hundreds of millions in...
Ferris State faculty detained — government cites 1998 Canadian convictions
Federal immigration authorities detained Sumith Gunasekera, a longtime faculty member at Ferris State University, after the government determined he was ineligible for legal status due to 1998...
Voters flip on college: 63% say four-year degree not worth the cost
A new NBC News poll found 63% of registered voters now believe a four-year bachelor’s degree is ‘‘not worth the cost,’’ up sharply from 47% in 2017. Even people who hold degrees have shifted...
Singapore tops INSEAD talent index — Switzerland slips to second
INSEAD’s 2025 Global Talent Competitiveness Index ranked Singapore No. 1 globally for talent competitiveness, overtaking long-time leader Switzerland. The report, produced with the Portulans...
Dartmouth instructor: ChatGPT changed teaching — disruption is messy
A Dartmouth faculty member who left consulting to teach in 2022 says the arrival of ChatGPT months after his appointment upended assumptions about classroom practice and curriculum. He launched a...
Is an MBA right for health care? A Sloanie explains — MIT Sloan case study
A MIT Sloan MBA student describes choosing the program to pivot from biomedical research into the business of health care. She mapped programs against criteria such as school reputation,...
Enrollment chiefs at Tulane and UChicago earn seven figures — recruitment stakes rise
Senior enrollment leaders at Tulane University and the University of Chicago have attracted unusually high compensation after driving early-application growth, drawing attention to how...
Trump misstates Education Department origins — federal role dates to 1867
A recent statement misstating the origin of the U.S. Department of Education prompted fact-checking: the federal government first operated a national education bureau in 1867, not 1979. The...
Harvard professor: happier leaders lift performance — evidence from corporate data
Arthur C. Brooks, a Harvard professor teaching leadership and happiness at the Kennedy School and Business School, argued that leader wellbeing correlates with better organizational performance...
NYT Communities Fund partners with education charities — philanthropy aims at key junctures
The New York Times Communities Fund announced partnerships with charities focused on education at critical life junctures, raising awareness and funding for programs that aim to strengthen...
Northwestern agrees to $75 million settlement: research funding restored
Northwestern University struck a $75 million deal with the Trump administration to end federal probes into antisemitism claims and unlock hundreds of millions in research grants. The agreement...
Trump administration detains Ferris State faculty member: university caught in visa fight
Federal authorities detained Sumith Gunasekera, a longtime faculty member at Ferris State University, saying he is ineligible for legal status because of 1998 criminal charges in Canada that...
College value crisis... Majority say four‑year degree isn’t worth the cost
A new NBC News poll found 63% of registered voters now say a four‑year college degree is not worth the cost, up sharply from 47% in 2017. The shift extends even to graduates: only 46% of degree...
Singapore tops INSEAD index: global talent ranking flips after decade
INSEAD and the Portulans Institute released the 2025 Global Talent Competitiveness Index placing Singapore at No. 1 for the first time, displacing Switzerland after ten years at the top. The...
Dartmouth professor: ChatGPT hit classrooms — disruption is messy
A Dartmouth instructor who left consulting for academia described how the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 forced rapid curricular change and experimentation, both in classroom design and...
AI valuations double... Startups’ funding spree strains university talent and grants
Top AI startups raised back‑to‑back funding rounds this year, with valuations sometimes doubling or tripling inside months—OpenAI’s valuation jumped toward $500 billion in a recent tender offer...