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.
March brought layoffs, buyouts, and the elimination of multiple academic programs as universities sought to plug budget holes wrought by sector challenges and state budget issues.
While many universities have announced hiring freezes and other moves due to the uncertainty of federal funding under President Donald Trump, these cuts are not directly tied to the administration’s efforts to slash budgets and shrink the government. Instead, they are linked largely to dwindling enrollment or the loss of state funding.
Mayor Randall Woodfin—now in his second term—describes the city of Birmingham, Alabama, as a place once built on an abundance of iron ore, coal, and limestone, and the area’s iron and steel production.
Today, manufacturing, health care, biotechnology, and financial services are Birmingham's future. To capitalize on these growing industries, the city has built a multitude of local training programs and economic development initiatives. That includes partnerships with community colleges to develop education and career pathways programs.
Philosophy professor Jason Stanley made a quick and definitive decision to leave Yale University and the United States when Columbia University agreed to restructure its student protest policies to get back $400 million in federal research funding that the Trump administration pulled from the university.
In his interview, Stanley discusses his political and personal reasons for leaving America to teach at the University of Toronto—plus why he believes the democratic principles of U.S. higher education are at risk.
The war on higher education has been in the news lately as the Trump administration targets colleges on multiple fronts. On many campuses, however, the biggest battle is an endless feud between faculty and administrators. Professors and presidents seem to be at odds over everything, including curriculum, online education, and academic freedom.
How did we get here? And is it really as bad as it looks?
While the top minds in artificial intelligence are racing to make the technology think more like humans, researchers at Elon University are asking the opposite question: How will AI change the way humans think?
The answer comes with a grim warning: Many tech experts worry that AI will make people worse at skills core to being human, such as empathy and deep thinking.
Across California’s public university systems, students and faculty are learning and working in aging academic buildings where air conditioning, roofs, plumbing, and electrical systems are either deteriorating or not functional. Every year, maintenance expenses for the University of California and California State University campuses total a combined $1.5 billion.
But those repairs don’t always get made because of the unpredictable nature of the state’s budget. Absent a long-term funding plan, the deferred maintenance backlog has grown to an estimated $9.1 billion for the University of California and $8.3 billion for Cal State University as of the 2023-24 school year.
