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Social media plays an important role in how organizations communicate with their audiences, share updates, and manage their public presence. According to the Pew Research Center, social media use remains widespread across different demographics, reinforcing its role in modern communication. Individuals interested in this area may explore a communications degree to learn foundational concepts in media, messaging, and audience engagement, which can be applied across a variety of platforms. What is a Communications Degree Program? This type of program often combines communication, technology, and media studies to prepare students for careers in social media, community engagement, journalism and media writing,…

What began as a small, student-led effort to revive a dormant campus organization at Stony Brook University has turned into a pipeline to career opportunities for members of the university’s chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants. Temitade Adeyemi, a fourth-year business management and finance major at Stony Brook, said he and a small group of students brought back the chapter last year to expand access to professional connections and mentorship. “I realized Stony Brook didn’t have a chapter, so I did my research, made a few phone calls and followed the steps to re-establish it,” said Adeyemi, the…

Samuel J. Abrams, RealClearEd In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Governors voted to remove introductory sociology from the state’s general education core, setting off predictable outrage…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter A tidal wave of litigation aimed at social media platforms is drawing comparisons to the tobacco and opioid cases of recent decades, with observers predicting the companies that operate sites like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok could soon be paying out billions in court settlements. As of last month, more than 2,400 claims were pending in the federal multidistrict litigation overseen by a judge in California. More than 10,000 individual cases and nearly 800 school district claims were pending across several venues nationwide. And more than…

April 15, 2026 High-achieving juniors can apply now, hear back before senior year and use a non-binding early offer from Montclair State University to plan classes, finances and their next steps Posted in: Admissions, Press Releases Dana Brzezinski, a first-year Educational Foundations major, relaxes with friends on the Montclair State University campus – the place she first pictured herself attending when she applied through the Early Bird Junior Admission Program. (Photo by University Photographer Mike Peters) When Dana Brzezinski opened an email the summer before her senior year of high school, she got the news every student waits for: she…

The survey’s results show an overall positive perception of higher education. The nation’s federal student aid programs received strong bipartisan public support in a recent survey from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The poll also captured positive outlooks on the value of higher education as a whole. It’s “a rare political issue on which Americans across the political spectrum agree,” NAICU president Barbara Mistick said in a news release. The study, conducted by RW Jones in November, included more than 1,200 responses from nationally representative adults. Among them, 75 percent of the Republicans and more than 80 percent of…

Reading my articles from the fellowship feels like reading diary entries. They’re raw, honest and they reflect how much I was struggling with teaching at the time. Overwhelm is apparent. So is frustration. As a teacher who was impacted by COVID-19 and the year of fully remote learning for students, the Voices of Change fellowship gave me the space to reflect and name the questions that had brought me to teaching in the first place. Since leaving the classroom almost two years ago, I’ve returned to writing frequently to work through the questions teaching left me with.Having attended Title I…

Your Roadmap For Implementing An Enterprise LMS Rolling out a new Learning Management System (LMS) can be daunting, especially if you’re unsure about how L&D success is defined in your organization or how training goals connect to business outcomes. Fortunately, this checklist and project plan for implementing an enterprise LMS map out every phase of the process, so you can lay the foundation for long-term learning impact. eBook ReleaseThe 11-Step LMS Implementation Checklist & Project Plan Use this streamlined 11-step checklist to guide your rollout, from initial strategy to long-term optimization. The Risks Of Not Planning Your LMS Rollout Most…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Lawmakers in the New York Senate and Assembly are considering a bill that would empower New York City high school students. It doesn’t have a catchy name, nor has it attracted much debate and attention surrounding it. It doesn’t call for a tax increase or advance a partisan agenda. It reflects the best kind of policymaking: a pragmatic measure that delivers clear value with minimal lift. It also stands as one of the simplest ways to improve mayoral control of the city’s schools.  This bill…

I don”t know about you, but this is the time of year when I start doing that thing — you know the thing — where you open every drawer, look at every cable, and ask yourself: Did I actually use this? Was it worth it? Would I buy it again? It’s become a ritual for me. Every May or June, I take stock of what made it into the daily rotation and what sat on a shelf collecting dust. After 20-plus years in education — and more hours than I’d like to admit testing apps, gadgets, and workflows — I’ve…