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Section: Institutions
Institutions
Experts Warn Data Gaps Undermine Value of Fast-Growing Non-Degree Credentials
Experts say workforce Pell alone won't fix the problem.
June 11, 2026
Views
Safety Is a Feeling: The Trust Gap That Undermines Readiness
Campus safety isn’t just what’s written in plans or installed in buildings—it’s whether students and staff trust the system enough to speak up, act quickly, and stay engaged before a crisis happens.
June 11, 2026
Institutions
North Carolina’s private colleges claim $38B economic role as financial pressures mount
The state’s independent colleges remain major workforce and economic engines, but recent enrollment losses and financial stress show a more complicated outlook.
June 10, 2026
Institutions
HBCUs Are Not Waiting to Be Saved
HBCU leaders gathered at Johnson C. Smith University not to plead for survival, but to map a future defined by strategy, scale, and unapologetic institutional ambition.
June 10, 2026
Institutions
Feds Launch Medical School Nutrition Initiative With No Monetary Penalties for Curricular Gaps
A growing number of medical schools and accrediting agencies have signed on to a new federal pledge requiring 40 hours of nutrition education beginning in Fall 2026.
June 9, 2026
Campus Climate
The New College Experiment: A Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution
How the hostile takeover of Florida’s most LGBTQ-friendly campus became the right-wing testing ground for dismantling progressive higher education.
June 8, 2026
HBCUs
Spelman Names Top Roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard As 12th President
Dr. Ayanna Howard — a roboticist, AI pioneer, and former NASA engineer who currently serves as dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University— will assume her duties on August 1.
June 5, 2026
Best Practices
Colleges Keep Fixing Their Messaging. They're Avoiding the Real Problem.
Colleges try large scale rebranding to avoid fallout on hard discussions.
June 4, 2026
Institutions
University of Utah Cuts Positions Amid Budget Restructuring
Facing legislatively required budget cuts, the University of Utah is eliminating 10 "student success coach" positions as part of a broader overhaul of its academic advising.
June 1, 2026
Institutions
Johns Hopkins Legacy Debated in New Study Amid National Reckoning Over Slavery
New research challenges the widely reported claim that Johns Hopkins owned slaves, pointing to alternative explanations for 19th-century census data.
June 1, 2026
Institutions
Why a Massive Endowment Doesn't Mean a University Is Rich
As elite institutions announce layoffs, hiring freezes, and program cuts, a closer look at the difference between what institutions own and what they can actually spend reveals a more complicated financial picture than headline numbers suggest.
June 1, 2026
HBCUs
North Carolina A&T Chancellor James Martin II Discusses Higher Ed’s Pivotal Moment
As the Black Alumni Collective National Conference meets to discuss urgent advocacy, Dr. James Martin II, chancellor of North Carolina A&T University, shares why the “relationship economy” and the ROI of HBCUs are critical to the national agenda.
May 31, 2026
Community Colleges
Community Colleges Are More Than Workforce Engines, Stakeholders Say
Community colleges enroll nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States. They train nurses, electricians, cybersecurity analysts, and early childhood educators. They serve first-generation students, working adults, returning veterans, and displaced workers pivoting from industries that no longer exist. And increasingly, they are being asked to do all of it on a budget that was never designed to support this scale of ambition.
May 28, 2026
Community Colleges
Report Raises Quality Concerns for Online California Community College System Courses
About 40% of all classes in California’s community college system are now online, but students say the quality of the courses is questionable and that counselors are often unavailable to help them choose the right ones, according to a new report.
May 27, 2026
Leadership & Policy
The Blueprint for Banning DEI: How Texas Is Using Department Consolidation to Reshape Higher Ed
Some faculty members say it is a politically-motivated, top-down defunding of teaching and research that centers issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship.
May 27, 2026
Institutions
New Compendium Examines Higher Ed Class Action Lawsuits
Colleges and universities in the U.S. are increasingly facing class action lawsuits due to a combination of factors that make them “uniquely suited” to be the targets of such litigation, according to a new compendium that examines the issues that are landing the institutions in court.
May 22, 2026
Institutions
Colleges Are Drowning in Data. Experts Say That’s Exactly the Problem
American colleges and universities have spent more than a decade investing heavily in data infrastructure, yet a growing chorus of technology experts and higher education analysts warn that the industry’s obsession with accumulating information has paradoxically left institutions less equipped to help the students they serve.
May 21, 2026
Institutions
Once a Top Ranked Institution On Social Mobility, Oakland City University Pauses Undergrad Degree Programs
The rural university's decision to suspend undergraduate programs in the wake of financial pressures will surely disrupt the regional higher ed ecosystem.
May 20, 2026
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