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Roxbury Community College’s campus pantry, the “Rox Box,” reported serving more than 1,500 students with food and essential supplies, signaling sustained demand for on‑campus basic‑needs services....

The Wharton School reported a median base salary increase to $185,000 for its MBA Class of 2025 while job‑offer and acceptance rates fell for a second straight year. Offer and acceptance...

Republican lawmakers are preparing to press further higher‑education reforms in 2026, building on last year’s legislative changes and signaling continued scrutiny of accountability and spending....

A Middlebury College senior, Lia Smith, a transgender woman and former member of the diving team, died by suicide in October after reporting difficulty feeling accepted on campus. The death has...

Fitch, Moody’s and S&P Global released dour assessments for U.S. higher education finances heading into 2026, warning of mounting operating pressures and deterioration across nonprofit colleges...

Widespread federal research funding reductions have prompted foreign universities and governments to actively recruit U.S. researchers, raising alarms about a potential brain drain. Analysts and...

Facilities leaders are treating campus vehicle fleets as a data problem after finding blind spots that drive waste and theft. The typical institution manages hundreds of vehicles—student shuttles,...

The Wharton School’s Class of 2025 posted a higher median base salary—$185,000, up $10,000 year over year—while placement metrics cooled for a second consecutive year. Of 879 graduates, 608 were...

An upcoming RHSU Edu‑Scholar Public Influence Rankings release and an accompanying explanation argue that higher education undervalues practical policy influence relative to grants and traditional...

Security experts are urging large organizations to adopt passkeys as a stronger, user-friendly alternative to reused passwords. Passkeys tie authentication to a user’s device and remove...

The rapid surge in corporate AI investment has raised concerns about overbuilding infrastructure, a dynamic with direct implications for universities that invest in compute, partnerships and AI...

Community opposition to large, water‑ and power‑hungry data centers has intensified, blocking or delaying dozens of proposals and forcing developers to navigate new zoning and permitting...

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said the firm hired 2,000 recent graduates from roughly 200,000 applications and warned that many Gen Z applicants are anxious about AI and the job market....

The AI-driven rally pushed major indexes higher while prompting strategists and portfolio managers to flag overinvestment risks. Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Broadcom accounted for a large...

Policy thinkers and industry figures pushed back against framing AI as a zero-sum race after recent U.S. actions on chip exports to China. The Trump administration’s move to permit exports of...

Sweden’s long-running digital-access policies and startup ecosystem have produced an outsized share of AI 'unicorns' per capita, according to founders and analysts. The article traces the...

Local opposition and tighter municipal review processes have blocked or delayed a wave of proposed data centers, threatening supply chains for AI compute and cloud capacity. Data Center Watch and...

Cybersecurity experts and major tech firms are promoting passkeys as a more secure, user‑friendly alternative to traditional passwords, urging institutions to accelerate adoption. The article...

JLL’s Workforce Preference Barometer finds that the locus of employer–employee conflict has shifted from 'where' to 'when'—workers increasingly demand control over schedules rather than just...

JLL’s profile of the "empowered non‑complier" identifies a cohort of high-skill employees who selectively ignore mandated in‑office days. These workers—often managers in tech roles aged about...