higher education

Throughout the first quarter of the 21st century, schools built up capacity to accommodate growing student populations, adding classroom space, teacher positions, and the many resources that go into educating…

Americans’ confidence in higher education slipped this year, with the steepest decline coming from Democrats, according to the latest Lumina Foundation-Gallup survey. The pool of Americans with a “great deal”…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief:  Just 38% of U.S. adults report having high confidence in…

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled to strike down the part of Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, which applied to professors at public institutions. I knew lots of…

Two school days. That’s all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded…

PAUL PETERSON, HOST: This is the Education Exchange with Paul Peterson. I am the Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University. Thank you for joining…

Dive Snapshot: The University of Nebraska System is facing an unexpected $36 million cut in state funding as it starts a fiscal year that has already brought painful cuts to…

Undocumented Texas students remain ineligible for in-state tuition rates at public institutions. Undocumented Texas students will continue to be unable to qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions, after…

Peter Duker is a University of Guelph PhD student in geography with specialties in political ecology and environmental governance. After winning an IDRA scholarship in 2024, he spent a year…

Schools are racing to write AI policies, but what if the policy is not the first step? This week, we hear from Aleta Margolis, founder and president of the Center…