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With donor counts decreasing and technology making many alumni volunteer roles less relevant, colleges should consider whether those roles need a refresh, Joe McGonegal writes.

“Programmed” thinking—the tendency to try to solve educational problems with required courses and curricula—has outlived its usefulness, Chris W. Gallagher writes.

The most powerful contemporary magic is to transform money into “merit,” Musa al-Gharbi writes.

Industry partnerships, stackable credentials, two new centers, AI across the curriculum: Madeline Pumariega writes how one college is responding to the need for an AI-trained workforce.

With Pell Grants newly available to more incarcerated individuals, colleges should expand access to higher ed in the nation’s prisons, Judy Olian writes.

A more inclusive definition of merit provides an opportunity for higher ed to reinvent itself after the Supreme Court’s damaging decision, Demetria D. Frank, Darrell D. Jackson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones write.