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Title IX Legal Challenges Target LGBTQ+ Protections

Judges have temporarily blocked the new Title IX regulations in 10 red states so far. Experts expect a long legal fight that could end at the Supreme Court.

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Faculty Issues Academic Freedom

A Dean Called for Silencing Harvard’s Faculty Critics. He’s Been Roasted.

Governance Trustees & Regents

Should 2 North Carolina HBCUs Merge?

Saint Augustine’s board chair alleges that local business leaders are trying to force a merger with nearby Shaw. His claims come as alumni call for the board’s removal.

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Financial Aid Timelines Sway Student Enrollment

A new report shows the importance of aid offers in college decisions—not just amount but also timeliness and clarity, two factors hampered by the FAFSA debacle.

Student Success Life After College

Listen: How Colleges Are Making Career Development an Undercurrent of Education

The latest Voices of Student Success episode explores how career integration can boost students’ outcomes, addressing concerns about the return on investment in higher education.

Student Success Academic Life

Teaching Tip: A More Strategic Syllabus Day

Rather than reviewing syllabus material, instructors can consider these five ideas to implement on the first day of class to promote students’ engagement and academic success.

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The Misunderstood Politics of the Energy Transition: Academic Minute

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Toward Jewish Reconciliation on Campuses

Sharon Aschaiek writes that colleges will need to take steps to reconcile with their Jewish community members.

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How Higher Ed Can Learn From Train-the-Trainer Models

Colleges can draw inspiration from an unexpected source—wildfire management—and a strategy that field is relying on to prepare for devastating summer wildfire incidents, writes Timothy Renick.

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More Than Whiteness

What it means to be Irish in America.

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Guest Post: AI Meets Academia—Navigating the New Terrain

James Bedford on how he’s using AI to help translate the ways of academia to students.

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Avoiding Trip Wires

Marisa Quinn has compiled a list of dos and don’ts for newly appointed college and university leaders to consider while preparing for their positions.

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Hiring for Humanity

To create an office culture marked by trust, humanity and collaboration, Diana Lawrence poses a rather unexpected question to job interviewees.

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The Key Podcast

Ep. 119: Voices of Student Success: Careers as an Undercurrent
How career integration can boost students’ outcomes, addressing concerns about the return on investment in higher education.
Ep. 118: Colleges’ Responsiveness to the Job Market
This episode examines how institutions are adapting to growing pressure to prepare learners for work.

Academic Minute

The Misunderstood Politics of the Energy Transition
Who is to blame for slowing the transition to a low-carbon-energy future? In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Texas at Austin’s David Spence has some ideas.
How Early Texas Settler Groups Got Along
There’s still a lot to learn and understand about early settlements in Texas. In today’s Academic Minute, Texas A&M University–San Antonio’s Francis Galan sheds some light on the complexities of Spanish settlements in the state.

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The FAFSA Broke Me

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FAFSA Fiasco Pushes States to Mandate Universal Completion

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A New Digital Divide: Student AI Use Surges, Leaving Faculty Behind

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Campus Engagement Tip: Create an Experiences Hub

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Government Student Aid Policy

Federal Judges Put Biden’s New Loan Repayment Plan on Hold

Student Voice: Life After College

Students say how their colleges and universities are and should be preparing them for the workforce, including through their experiences with campus career centers, experiential learning and career influencers.

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Student Success Life After College

Preparing for Life After College: The Top 10 Student Survey Insights

Major findings from our Student Voice survey on getting ready for life after college reveal gaps in students’ use of and satisfaction with career services. Responses also suggest that students expect a high degree of faculty involvement in career exploration and that they benefit from experiential learning, including internships.

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Student Success Life After College

Preparing Undergraduates for Work: 5 Student Ideas

Students at Oregon State University at Cascades will soon run a for-profit snowboard business—the kind of opportunity Student Voice survey respondents say they want. In this infographic, students share other ideas for how their institutions can help them better prepare for the world of work.

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Student Success Life After College

Student Career Desires: 3 Survey Findings to Know and 2 Areas to Act On

The latest Student Voice flash survey reveals gaps between students’ desired career-related outcomes and how they say they’re being prepared for life after college, and also between first- and continuing-generation students’ parents as career influences.

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Student Success Life After College

Students’ Biggest Career Influences

In this latest set of Student Voice survey findings, students name parents as their top career influence and reflect on the value of experiential learning. Meanwhile, just a third of those soon to graduate say they have definitely decided on a career.

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Student Success Life After College

Survey: How AI Is Impacting Students’ Career Choices

The rise of artificial intelligence is influencing what many students want to study and pursue as a career, according to a new flash survey from Student Voice. Students also say they want to be prepared for AI and the workplace.

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Student Success Life After College

Survey: Students Want Career Prep in the Curriculum

In new Student Voice data, two- and four-year college respondents say they want a high level of faculty and adviser involvement in their career preparation as they rank their priorities for experiential learning.

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Student Success Life After College

Boosting Engagement With Career Services: Students Weigh In

Student Voice survey respondents share six career center actions they say would make them likelier to use career services.

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Student Success Life After College

Key Differences in Student Satisfaction With Career Centers

Nonwhite students and online students who have engaged with their campus career centers have lower satisfaction and effectiveness rates for these services than white peers and those taking all or some of their classes online, respectively.

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Student Success Life After College

Students Sound Off on Career Centers

According to the newest Student Voice survey on life after college, about a third of students—even those graduating in 2024—haven’t interacted with their campus career center. There’s also a gap between the services students say career centers should offer and what services they’re actually seeking out.

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Student Success Life After College

Survey Teaser: Helping Students Prepare for Life After College

Respondents to the newest Student Voice survey seem to value passion as much as practicality in preparing for a career and expect moderate to high levels of support from professors and academic advisers in this area. Students also weigh in on what career centers are doing right—and could be doing better.