Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity.
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence will continue to reshape work in general and entry-level jobs in particular in expected and unexpected ways. But many experts also contend that we are not doomed to what some call an “AI job apocalypse” or a “white-collar bloodbath” that leads to mass unemployment. There are practical solutions to the experience gap problem when it comes to education and training programs.
These solutions include earn-and-learn models and other innovative public and private employer partnerships that build into their approaches opportunities for young people to gain valuable work experience.
When she takes office as governor of Virginia in January, Abigail Spanberger will step into a partisan war over the political direction of one of the nation’s most respected public university systems.
The schools have lately been at the center of a push by Republicans to overhaul universities that they see as having liberal biases. The Democratic victory in the election may test the limits of that effort in public universities, where state politicians often play a significant role in selecting administrators and setting policy.
This Veterans Day, people throughout the country will pause to honor the men and women who have served the nation with courage and commitment. But for many veterans, the spirit of service doesn’t end with their military careers. Instead, it evolves, finding new forms and new missions.
For Robert L. Glover, a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps, this reality means trading his uniform for a new kind of service—one defined by mentorship, education, and empowering the next generation. He explains more in this essay.
President Donald Trump has made an example of Ivy League universities, attacking, cajoling, and fining them in brisk succession. There’s a notable exception: Yale University.
In New Haven, Connecticut, the school’s conspicuous absence from the crosshairs has become a subject of intense campus speculation—among professors, students, and even parents.
The release of ChatGPT in 2022 marked a significant shift in the history of higher education. The introduction of large language models that can quickly create relevant and correct responses to any question—along with related technologies that can act independently, AI tutors, and automated grading tools—has changed higher education and raised important questions about originality, expertise, thinking, and even what learning really means and aims to achieve.
In this interview, 15 scholars and academic administrators offer their thoughts about how generative AI has transformed higher education over the past 18 months—and what happens next.
Faculty at all Florida public universities must now make syllabi, as well as a list of required or recommended textbooks and instructional materials for each class, available online and searchable for students and the general public for five years.
The new policy is part of an amendment to the Florida Board of Governors’ regulation on “Textbook and Instructional Materials Affordability and Transparency," and it passed unanimously without discussion at a board meeting last week. However, some faculty members say it is designed to chill academic freedom and allow the public to police what professors teach and say in the classroom.
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