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AFT sues Education Dept.: Union challenges abrupt community-school funding cuts
The American Federation of Teachers and a Chicago nonprofit filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education after the agency abruptly halted multiyear Full-Service Community Schools grants....
School shootings... 2025 decline and quiet start to 2026, Education Week tracker shows
Education Week’s tracker reports a steep decline in school shootings that caused injuries or deaths in 2025—the fewest in five years—and notes zero such shootings so far in 2026. The 2025 tally...
Supporting older struggling readers: Research-backed interventions for secondary schools
Education Week highlights that many middle and high school students still struggle with foundational reading skills and that secondary schools often lack schedules, training, and age-appropriate...
AI in higher ed... Colleges rethink cloud and governance
Colleges and universities are reassessing cloud strategy as AI workloads move from specialized research to core functions such as recruitment, advising, student support and campus safety. IT...
MBA programs go all‑in: AI shifts from elective to core
Business schools moved beyond pilot projects in 2025, embedding AI across curricula and launching new degrees and facilities focused on tech, sustainability and leadership. Schools highlighted for...
Deans' 2026 resolutions: Judgment over tools — schools refocus
Top business‑school deans signaled a strategic pivot for 2026: while endorsing AI and digital tools, leaders emphasized cultivating human judgment and consensus‑building. UC Berkeley Haas Dean...
Meta acquires Manus: Agents head into mainstream AI products
Meta announced the acquisition of Singapore‑based Manus, a provider of general‑purpose AI agents, with the company positioned to scale agent services across Meta’s consumer and business products....
Nvidia licenses Groq: Inference becomes AI’s battleground
Nvidia licensed technology from Groq and absorbed much of its team as the company hedges on inference—the stage of AI that turns models into recurring services. Nvidia executives framed inference...
Investor warns of data‑center bust: Financing gap for speculative builds
A leading AI investor warned that speculative third‑party data‑center developers face a looming financing crunch as capital inflows collide with mismatched customer demand. Alex Davis of...
Retirement shifts... Phased exits urged to preserve campus expertise
Demographic shifts are accelerating retirements and creating talent gaps across sectors, and experts urge higher‑education employers to adopt phased‑retirement models to retain institutional...
Feds hunt teenage hacking rings: Cybersecurity risk to campuses and students
Federal investigators have been pursuing teenage hacking collectives—including groups tied to Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and related actors—that prosecutors say have infiltrated companies worth...
Protests over Iran’s economic crisis spread to campuses — universities become flashpoints
Protests triggered by Iran’s currency collapse and inflation have expanded onto university campuses, turning academic settings into centers of political demonstration. The spillover has put...
UK universities extend careers support: Lifelong services for 40s and 50s
A growing number of UK universities are offering lifelong careers services to alumni in their 40s and 50s, expanding traditional campus‑based career centers into mid‑career support hubs. Services...
AI in higher education: cloud strategy pivots as workloads diversify
Campus IT leaders are reorganizing cloud strategy as AI workloads move beyond research and into student services and administration. Institutions are weighing where to run models for recruitment,...
Meta’s Manus buy: platform deal raises governance and sourcing questions
Meta has agreed to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based AI-agent platform with Chinese roots, in a transaction reported at more than $2 billion. Meta said Manus will deliver general-purpose agents...
Inference economics: Nvidia hedges by licensing Groq tech
Nvidia moved to license Groq’s inference technology and hire much of its team, a strategic step that signals the company sees inference — running models at scale — as a distinct commercial...
Adoption vs absorption: India’s scale shows institutional barriers to AI
A policy analysis using India’s experience — processing ~20 billion transactions monthly — argues that institutional readiness, not just model quality, determines whether AI drives productivity at...
Venture warning: investor flags a looming data‑center financing shock
An aggressive AI backer who financed notable chip deals warned institutional investors that speculative third‑party data‑center builds risk a financing crisis in 2027–28. Alex Davis said too much...
ChatGPT ‘anxiety’ study: implications for bias, research and student support
A multi‑university research team found that LLMs such as ChatGPT can manifest increased bias and erratic outputs when exposed to disturbing inputs — a state the authors labeled “anxiety” — and...
Online MBA admissions: acceptance rates and program selectivity shift
Poets&Quants’ 2026 online MBA ranking highlights changing admission standards and acceptance rates across top programs, with Indiana University’s Kelley program reporting a 23% acceptance rate and...