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What Today’s Hyperconnected Students Need From Their First Weeks on Campus

Students taking their first steps onto university campuses this month will arrive more informed—thanks to AI and social media—and more focused on career outcomes than previous classes. So, how should universities tailor their welcome to set incoming cohorts up for success?

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Professor Fired for ‘Inciting Violence’ to Be Reinstated

A district court judge on Friday ordered that Thomas Alter, a recently tenured associate professor of history at Texas State...
A closeup of an H-1B visa.

Higher Ed’s H-1B Visas in 4 Charts

More than 16,700 employees at colleges and universities got H-1B visas approved in fiscal year 2025, but they are concentrated at 100 large research institutions.

Black students in graduation regalia cheering.

Students, Alumni Rally to Keep Slashed Affinity Programs Alive

Across the country, student groups and other organizations are working to fill the gaps left behind by campus centers and programs lost to a snowballing anti-DEI movement.

Black male and white male student shopping at a food pantry on a college campus.

Majority of California Community College Students Lack Basic Needs

New survey data points to a prevalence of basic needs insecurity among two-year students in California, particularly around housing.

MacKenzie Scott, a light-skinned woman with long brown hair.

MacKenzie Scott Donates $70M to UNCF

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $70 million to the United Negro College Fund last week. The funds will be distributed to...
Charlie Kirk in front of a split blue and red background with people arguing in the color blocks.

Charlie Kirk: Hero of ‘Civil Discourse’ or Fount of Division?

Pointing to the slain activist’s inflammatory statements about minority groups, some are pushing back—at their own peril—against the right’s framing of him as an emblem of quality discourse.

Headshot of Stephen L. Pruitt, president, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, next to images of several different college campuses.

SACS’s New Head Shares His Vision for the Accreditor

New SACSCOC president Stephen Pruitt stepped into the job at a time when accreditors are under fire. He has pledged “fierce nonpartisanship” and respect for states’ rights.