IHE 09-15-2026 DNU

A Massachusetts judge issued the injunction hours before the regulation was set to take effect. Institutions worried it would harm international students.

Mahmoud Khalil and other current and former students sued Columbia University for allegedly failing to protect them from harassment tied to pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.

The authors recommend supporting adult learners with credit-for-prior-learning initiatives, debt forgiveness and flexible scheduling options for courses and campus services. 

New initiatives and research show how colleges can reach students earlier and extend support across more of their higher ed journey.

In the new era of revenue sharing, colleges should make a meaningful financial literacy course mandatory for athletes. Congress may have to give them a nudge.

By Elizabeth Plummer and Bill Wempe

Students need guidance to help them move beyond emotional reaction to evidentiary analysis.

By Ahlam Lee

“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”       —Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)

By Kathy Johnson Bowles

4 questions for Melissa Kane, Director of Online Program Development.

By Joshua Kim