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Who Marches for HBCU Bands’ Graduation Success?
As HBCU bands continue to elevate campus culture and public visibility, institutions should more intentionally track and support the academic success of the students behind the sound.
July 31, 2026
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Colleges Must Prepare Students to Be AI Change Agents, Not Just AI-Literate
To help students stand out in an AI-driven labor market, colleges should embed applied AI training across programs and partner more closely with industry.
July 30, 2026
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When Financial Aid and Institutional Policy Collide, Students Lose
The Howard University unenrollment controversy raises a larger question for higher education: who should absorb the risk when financial aid is promised but not yet processed?
July 29, 2026
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Scaling What Works: A Replicable Scholarship Model for the Next Era of Access
As college costs rise and completion gaps persist, the George M. Pullman Educational Foundation offers a scholarship model designed not just to get students into college, but to help them finish.
July 27, 2026
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Business School Isn’t Becoming Obsolete. It’s Becoming Essential.
A new generation of students is treating entrepreneurship not as a side hustle, but as essential preparation for navigating an uncertain economy.
July 22, 2026
Opinion
The AND Is the Point
At the ANDers Summit, higher education leaders sketched a more realistic blueprint for serving learners whose lives do not fit the traditional campus model.
July 22, 2026
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A PK–14 Promise: How Guilford County NC is Aligning K–12 and Community College to Power Its Economy
A partnership between Guilford County Schools and Guilford Technical Community College is giving students earlier exposure to careers, clearer pathways, and real momentum into the Triad’s growing economy.
July 21, 2026
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HBCUs, Are We Keeping Good Faith With Our Constituents?
At a time of leadership turnover, financial pressure and rising scrutiny, questions about executive pay at private HBCUs are becoming questions about transparency, accountability and mission.
July 20, 2026
International
New Student-Visa Rule Takes Effect September 15 and Colleges Need to Prepare Now
DHS says its new visa rule targets abuse, but its broad approach risks burdening legitimate students, increasing inequality across campuses and making the United States a less attractive destination for global talent.
July 16, 2026
AI
AI May Not Replace Students of Color in STEM. But It Could Narrow Their Pathways In
The debate over AI in higher education has focused on efficiency and productivity, but a quieter consequence may be the erosion of the research pathways that have long opened doors for first-generation and underrepresented students.
July 16, 2026
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Why Do Institutions Continue to Rely on Flawed Measures of Performance?
Student evaluations may look objective, but for faculty of color, they can quietly turn bias into career-shaping judgment.
July 10, 2026
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Disbanding Faculty Senates Does Not Negate the Speech Rights of Public University Professors
New efforts to silence faculty governance are colliding with a legal reality: public university employees still have protected speech rights outside their official duties.
July 8, 2026
Opinion
The Conversations We Keep Avoiding
As America struggles to remember how to talk across difference, one campus program is teaching students to practice disagreement like a civic skill.
July 8, 2026
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The AI divide is the new literacy test and HBCUs are leading the solution
From Howard to Virginia State, HBCUs are leaning into AI education to close equity gaps and prepare a diverse pipeline of tech-ready leaders.
July 6, 2026
Opinion
How Higher-Education Leaders Can Help Close the Trust Gap
As families question the cost and purpose of college, higher education leaders have an opportunity—and an obligation—to rebuild trust through transparency, accountability, and measurable student outcomes.
June 29, 2026
Opinion
The 43 Million Americans Higher Education Left Behind
As millions of Americans sit on unfinished college credits, new efforts in California and San Diego show that higher education can bring students back — if institutions are willing to reach out.
June 25, 2026
Opinion
The Protect College Sports Act Does Not Protect Black Athletes or HBCUs
The bill promises reform, but its restrictions on athlete compensation could reinforce the same system that has long enriched coaches, conferences and universities while Black athletes shoulder the cost.
June 23, 2026
Opinion
Who Gets to Shape AI? Why Higher Ed Must Ground Emerging Technology in the Humanities
As universities rush to react to artificial intelligence, Hunter College is taking a different approach: teaching students to interrogate, shape, and ultimately redefine the technologies transforming society.
June 20, 2026
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