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A year‑end roundup of the most read Review essays of 2025 spotlights pieces that shaped the higher‑education conversation: Lee Bollinger on an 'authoritarian moment' in academe, Jill Lepore’s...

MIT Sloan’s Class of 2025 showed a clear hiring recovery: offers and acceptances rose sharply three months after graduation even as median total compensation softened. The school reported 91.0% of...

Business-school deans and thought leaders outlined how 2026 will shift management education from AI experimentation to deliberate integration and sharper curricular choices. Contributors from HEC...

An ESSCA guide set out five evidence-informed strategies for students and programs to sustain learning without burnout. Stéphane Justeau’s recommendations stress process-oriented success (defining...

An admissions director’s memo highlighted seven recurring mistakes sinking MBA applications, from inconsistent storytelling across materials to writing what applicants think schools want to hear....

Profiles of HEC Paris EMBA alumni show executives using the program to shift careers and scale leadership impact. François Carle described moving into healthcare entrepreneurship and strategic...

Dr. Errol Norwitz, newly at Babson College’s Kerry Murphy Healey Center, argued that entrepreneurship must play a central role in remaking U.S. healthcare. In a Poets&Quants interview, Norwitz...

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 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...

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...

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’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...

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 advisers and employers are sending the same signal: traditional application missteps still cost candidates admission offers while employers increasingly prize short, demonstrable...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...