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  Gen Z is attending college online — and their parents are joining them. Here’s how to help.

  Colleges can encourage parental support while still maintaining boundaries, says a student success expert at Penn State World Campus.

  Dawn Coder • March 25, 2024

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  How universities can prepare graduates for an AI-driven world

  Colleges should focus on teaching the life skills that will outlast inevitable technological changes, the president of High Point University contends.

  Nido Qubein • March 11, 2024

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  Colleges need a deliberate online strategy to better serve first-generation students

  Higher education leaders won’t meet the moment if their virtual courses merely replicate face-to-face learning, Western Governors University’s leader says. 

  Scott Pulsipher • Feb. 5, 2024

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  Higher education’s accomplishments you may have missed in 2023

  Two leaders in the higher ed industry kick off the new year by rounding up 24 wins "for which the sector can be justly proud.”

  Eileen Strempel and Stephen Handel • Jan. 31, 2024

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  Policymakers must strengthen — not dismantle — the college accreditation system

  Recent attacks on accreditation pose a dire threat to students and the nation’s postsecondary institutions.

  Madison Weiss • Dec. 22, 2023

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  Colleges that can’t survive owe their employees dignified closures

  The library director of a small Pennsylvania college lays out what leaders should consider when their institutions are struggling to stay open.

  Mari Flynn • Dec. 11, 2023

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  How campuses can protect free speech and student safety amid the Israel-Hamas war

  Administrators can take steps to embrace free expression and delineate between speech and violence, two PEN America staff members say.

  Kristen Shahverdian and Sam LaFrance • Nov. 21, 2023

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  President Speaks: Colleges need an overhaul to meet the future head on

  Higher education faces an existential threat from forces like rapidly changing technology and generational shifts, one university leader argues. 

  Beth Martin • Oct. 30, 2023

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  The Supreme Court is poised to drop another DEI shoe next year

  Another case pending before the high court may further restrict what employers can lawfully do to increase diversity. 

  Jonathan A. Segal and Adam D. Brown • Oct. 25, 2023

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  Revamping incoming students’ experience can help them academically and socially

  A Worcester Polytechnic Institute official shares why the university recently updated its orientation, advising and physical education requirement. 

  Paul Reilly • Oct. 23, 2023

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  Colleges can take steps to address the affordable housing crisis

  From contributing underutilized land to tapping government support, institutions can help alleviate the problem — and get a return on their investment. 

  Eric Maribojoc • Oct. 16, 2023

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  Top-ranked colleges must be proactive to foster campus diversity

  Here are the steps higher education officials should take to mitigate the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against race-conscious admissions.

  Mauriell Amechi • Oct. 2, 2023

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  Colleges are ditching the SAT. The high school transcript should be next.

  Next generation credentials are a compentency-based alternative to transcripts that allow colleges to make better admissions decisions. 

  Laurie Gagnon • Sept. 12, 2023

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  President Speaks: With DEI under siege, independent colleges must advance conversations on diversity

  Private institutions must step up as politicians attempt to muzzle public colleges on issues of diversity and race, Saybrook University’s leader argues. 

  Nathan Long • Aug. 7, 2023

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  President Speaks: Lessons about bold women leadership from a college president

  Deanne D'Emilio, who helms Gwynedd Mercy University, discusses how she carries on the private college's legacy of women leaders. 

  Deanne D’Emilio • July 24, 2023

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  Here are ways professional education leaders can prepare students for the rise of AI

  Institutions must adapt their curricula to incorporate artificial intelligence-related topics, the dean of William & Mary Law School argues.

  A. Benjamin Spencer • July 17, 2023

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  How federal workforce programs can leave some students without credentials

  Federal law merely suggests that training providers confer a credential, but they are not required to do so, denying some participants an economic edge.   

  Christopher Mullin • July 10, 2023

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  Academic freedom is a core American value. We must defend it.

  Assaults on free expression threaten to stifle intellectual life on campus, argues the president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

  Mildred García • July 5, 2023

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  President Speaks: The case for being optimistic about higher education’s future

  Andrew Hsu, leader of the College of Charleston, explains why he remains positive even as colleges face an existential crisis. 

  Andrew Hsu • June 26, 2023

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  The shift to majority contingent faculty is more harmful to tenure than GOP attacks

  Political attacks on tenure won’t matter if it’s effectively eliminated to save money with contingent positions, one professor emeritus argues.

  J.W. Traphagan • June 16, 2023

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  How liberal arts colleges can make career services a priority

  Creating internships and focusing on short-term experiences has a big impact, the longtime undergraduate dean at the University of Chicago says. 

  John Boyer • June 5, 2023

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  Think twice about outsourcing campus mental health services

  The president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors urges institutions not to save money by cutting counseling staff.

  Marcus Hotaling • May 30, 2023

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  President Speaks: Despite shrinking numbers, women’s colleges are more important than ever

  Elizabeth Meade, leader of Cedar Crest College, argues that institutions like hers are needed to provide inclusive environments and drive social mobility. 

  Elizabeth Meade • May 22, 2023

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  Politicians as commencement speakers remain a risky proposition

  Dividing the audience with speaker choice can undercut the joy of graduation, says George Mason professor emeritus.

  James Finkelstein • May 15, 2023

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  Show me your budget, I’ll tell you your values

  Education Secretary Miguel Cardona writes that a congressional Republican budget proposal’s education cuts would be “staggeringly reckless.”

  Miguel Cardona • May 8, 2023

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