Deep Dives

Making sure graduates get jobs comes with high stakes—and the jobs outlook is especially hazy. This is what colleges are doing to prepare students for an uncertain future.

Inside Higher Ed’s annual CAO survey reveals a fractured landscape, where academic leaders rely on personal AI tools amid broader technological and political disruption.

Evolving guidance from the Education Department shut two students out of federal student loans. “It really feels like someone’s stabbing you,” one mom told Inside Higher Ed.

Jay Bhattacharya insists he wants to restore trust in the National Institutes of Health. Current and former agency employees say he’s doing the opposite.

Faculty at Wenzhou-Kean have accused their employer of obfuscatory employment agreements, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation and lack of shared governance. University officials dispute the charges.

Chief financial officers may be cautiously optimistic about the near-term financial outlook after a volatile year, but they also want structural change—now. Do they have the tools and buy-in to make it happen?

Apprenticeships are growing. But experts say that without more funding, updated laws and better data, the U.S. is still far from the system they know is possible.

Legislators are increasingly determining colleges’ core classes, underscoring how higher ed has become a political lightning rod.