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To the editor: We are grateful to Inside Higher Ed editor in chief Sara Custer in her recent column “Higher Ed Faces Competing Visions for Its Future” (Dec. 18, 2025) for mentioning Advancing Public Trust in Higher Education, the initiative we co-direct at the American Association of Colleges and Universities. We write to expand upon Custer’s review of the emerging responses to the trust problem and to clarify what our initiative is advocating and doing to invigorate public trust. Higher ed cannot restore public trust in colleges and universities unless the sector reckons in a clear-eyed fashion with the causes…

by Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report December 18, 2025 About 1.5 million people teach on college campuses in the United States, and nearly 4 million teachers work in its public elementary and secondary schools. More than 15 million undergraduates attend U.S. colleges and universities. There are more than 50 million school-age children across the country.    They all have one thing in common: Federal education policy affects their lives.  President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon say they want to close the Department of Education and return control of education to the states. At the same time, however, they have…

by Christina A. Samuels, The Hechinger Report December 18, 2025 Last year, Project 2025 was a conservative wish list: a grab bag of proposals large and small that would transform the federal government, including in education. Months later, many of those wishes have become reality. That includes, at least in part, Project 2025’s ultimate goal of doing away with the Education Department. The department still exists — getting rid of it completely would require congressional action— but it is greatly diminished: Much of the department’s work is being farmed out to other federal agencies. Half of its workforce of about…

eLearning Unscripted Episodes You May Have Missed This Year Since we launched our official podcast series a couple of years back, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with some of the leading experts in the eLearning sphere. Every episode is a unique blend of insights, best practices, and trend deep dives, with an occasional sprinkle of humorous and inspiring anecdotes. In no particular order, here are a few L&D podcasts from the ongoing eLearning Unscripted series you should check out that cover the latest trends and technologies. 10 L&D Podcasts Featuring Industry Experts The Path To Agentic AI And Building…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Fuiava Environmental Science Scholarship (Deadline: March 16, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Protecting the environment, especially in the face of climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. For Samoa and other Pacific Islands, the impacts of rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and damage to coral reefs are not distant threats—they are happening now and affecting our land, ocean, and way of life. Living on vulnerable islands shows the deep connection between people and place. Growing up surrounded by the ocean shows…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Lack of resources and preparation, low pay and working conditions such as issues with student behavior are the top reasons why nearly 70% of early-career teachers are on their way out of the classroom, according to a new survey from the Center for American Progress. The study, published Thursday by the left-leaning think tank, polled 309 K-12 teachers from 38 states and Washington, D.C., with fewer than five years of experience in February about educator retention.  The issues that have been driving teachers away have…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As states continue to launch and expand private school choice programs, one of their biggest challenges is building online platforms that meet the overwhelming demand.  Tennessee families experienced a bottleneck earlier this year as they waited hours online to submit applications for the state’s new Education Freedom Scholarship program. In July, the state told 166 parents that they had received a scholarship, only to alert them a few days later that the notification was a mistake.  “It wasn’t the most ideal user experience,” said Heide…

The Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has received a $55 million donation from alumnus and former trustee Stephen B. Ashley to establish the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment. By combining the college’s existing departments of global development and natural resources, the new school is designed to bring together expertise in agricultural, life, environmental and social sciences, university officials said in a news release Tuesday. “The Ashley School will create a dynamic ecosystem for discovery, experiential learning and innovation, transcending disciplines to spark scientific breakthroughs and real-world economic benefits for New York state and the world,”…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. In an address to the nation on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump celebrated increased state involvement and decreased federal oversight in education — a task he said his administration has accomplished in the last 11 months.   “We have broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools,” he said, “and control over those schools is back now in the hands of our great and loving states, where education belongs.”  Trump, however, remained silent on his education plan for 2026. Increased state…

Fewer than half — 46% — of transgender and nonbinary young people ages 13-24 report that most or all of the people in their lives use what they consider to be their pronouns, according to data released by The Trevor Project last week. For teens ages 13-17, that percentage drops to 40%. Transgender and nonbinary young people who were addressed by their pronouns had lower rates of suicide attempts in the past year compared to those whose pronouns were ignored — 11% vs. 17%. That’s a 31% less chance of a past-year suicide attempt, according to the nonprofit that provides…