In the rush to reform higher education, we risk misdiagnosing the role of accreditation. Don't Scapegoat Higher Ed's Safeguard Higher education has a trust issue. Public confidence in higher ed is at ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Summer 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. For Benjamin Wade, it was a sad homecoming. A couple of years ago, he graduated from Fontbonne ...

A move-in day moment revealed how different student paths can be.

As data moves beyond institutional systems, higher education faces a growing challenge with shadow data. Here’s how IT ...

With warm weather and a booming economy attracting young families and aspiring college freshmen in record numbers, South Carolina might seem immune from the sweeping demographic and social challenges ...

Challenges abound for the higher education sector. One of the biggest challenges has been the demographic decline in student population while operations and fixed costs associated with campus and ...

Artificial intelligence and the efficiency gains that come with it have the potential to change the current trajectory of many institutions at risk. But the key is to start now. Four years have passed ...

This article constitutes the second installment of a three-part series analyzing the prospective transformations within the U.S. Department of Education and the federal student loan system under ...

Pennsylvania’s higher education institutions largely got a flat budget under Gov. Josh Shapiro’s spending plan released last ...

In higher education, we teach that honest perspective only comes with a strong effort to understand both sides of a debate. As educators, we encourage healthy dialogue and exchange of ideas. But we ...

Teri Ooms provides a broad perspective on the demographic shifts and workforce shortages affecting the education sector. Dan Knorr shares insights from Commonwealth University’s consolidation of ...

The Covid-19 pandemic, disruptive technologies, and current developments in changing global geopolitics, specifically the US travel ban on 21 countries and counting, as well as the raging war in the ...