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Jed Atkins, RealClearEducation We are living through a period of profound polarization. Trust is low. Civic friendship is frayed. Many Americans increasingly see one another not as fellow…

Dive Brief: Prevailing wage rates for H-1B visa holders and similar foreign worker classifications would increase under a proposed rule issued last week by the U.S. Department of Labor, reviving a previously abandoned effort initially put forth by the first Trump administration. The rule would raise each wage level of the four-tier system that is used by DOL to certify that an employer seeking to employ a foreign worker is offering pay that is at least equivalent to that paid to individuals with similar experience and qualifications, or the prevailing wage for the position, whichever is greater. Prevailing wage levels…

Dive Brief:  Indiana’s public colleges are shedding or consolidating about 580 academic programs following a review by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education under a 2025 state law aiming to cull offerings that graduate low numbers of students.  Of those, roughly 370 programs are being merged or consolidated, while the remaining 210 are being suspended or eliminated. The programs represent roughly a quarter of all academic offerings across Indiana’s public colleges.  Even more cuts could be ahead. Indiana Gov. Mike Braun recently signed legislation directing the state’s public colleges to either end academic programs considered to produce “low earning” graduates…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Current and former students in some school districts are eligible for a portion of a $17.25 million class action settlement reached in February with several ed tech companies and the Chicago Board of Education. The settlement involved Naviance — a college, career and life-readiness platform developed by Hobsons and later acquired by PowerSchool — which has been used by many districts nationwide, including Chicago Public Schools.  The original plaintiff in the class action lawsuit, a Chicago Public Schools student known as Q.J.,…

As a linguistics professor who is currently teaching in the middle of the generative AI boom, I have been thinking about how we can use AI not just as a tool, but as a collaborator in fostering greater student learning. I have discovered, somewhat accidentally, that the ways AI can be wrong can sometimes produce the most generative teaching and learning moments in the classroom. Like many instructors, I notice that even when AI gets it wrong, the mistake still sounds polished and authoritative. Instead of looking at this as a problem, I can leverage these errors as launch points…

Katie Wills Evans, EdSurge At a time when AI can do the work for us, choosing to write — messily, slowly and together — may be one of the last ways we shape a more human future.

Elizabeth H. Bradley has served as president of Vassar College since 2017. Why was the faculty leadership program established – in particular, what were the skills and insights they don’t usually learn during their Ph.D. journey that were missing – and what are the goals for participants? We established the faculty leadership program to strengthen shared governance in higher education. A unique and important aspect of many liberal arts colleges is large decisions – about curriculum, promotion and tenure, and even faculty salary budget allocations – made jointly by administration and faculty. Shared governance ensures the academic mission has a firm…

Kali Jerrard, National Association of Scholars Last Wednesday, First Lady Melania Trump appeared at a White House summit on education technology alongside a humanoid, artificial intelligence…

In the latest episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, IHE’s news editor, Katherine Knott, and federal policy reporter Jessica Blake join editor in chief Sara Custer to discuss the latest news in federal higher ed policy.  The top story is how officials at the Department of Education are using interagency agreements to chip away at the department’s responsibilities. Last month, Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced plans to move the Office of Federal Student Aid to the Department of Treasury. In November, she announced six more agreements, this time transferring dozens of programs from several different offices within ED…

Jay Rothman, president of the 25-campus Universities of Wisconsin system, is resisting an ultimatum from the Board of Regents to resign or be fired for unexplained reasons. The news was first reported by the Associated Press. Rothman wrote in two letters shared with Inside Higher Ed that he had been told to step down or face termination, though he said he wasn’t given a rationale for the demand and won’t resign. “Since to date you have not provided any substantive reason or reasons for the Board’s finding of no confidence in my leadership, I am not prepared, as a matter…