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The gender gap in higher education continues to represent more women than men enrolled in university, with women more likely to complete their bachelor’s degrees than men. However, despite excelling in higher education, women still lag behind men in business education and the business world in general. This trend is shifting, though, and the number of women entering graduate programs in business to earn their master of business administration (MBA) is on the rise. The Rise of Women in MBA Programs The challenges women face in the business world have been so pervasive that the “glass ceiling” — a barrier preventing women…

The majority of teachers—around 55%—begin their careers in their early 20s, when most are childless. They must navigate the ins and outs of educating and building relationships with students and, by extension, their parents, without having firsthand experience of raising children. But many teachers eventually do have children of their own. About half of all public school K-12 teachers are parents whose children live at home with them. Then what?“For me, becoming a foster parent expanded my understanding of children in ways no degree or professional development ever could,” said Charles Longshore, principal of Hayden Middle School in Alabama, his…

Why AI Skills Will Define Workforce Competitiveness Artificial Intelligence is no longer a theoretical game changer. We now know that eLearning and HR teams should elevate their AI skills to increase their competitiveness and stand out in this crowded market. The changes that must happen are urgent, but most companies aren’t fast enough in preparing their workforces. 42% expect their job roles to change significantly due to AI domination. CEOs and leaders can’t leave their team members fighting to catch up, but must provide everyone with the opportunities they need to acquire crucial AI upskilling. AI workflows, automation, and copilots…

School counselors are on the front lines of one of the most stressful questions in the college process: “Is this college actually going to be affordable for us?” And the truth is, even the best counselors usually can’t answer that confidently without sensitive details like tax returns, household structure, and a student’s academic profile—details counselors understandably don’t have. So families get pointed to the most obvious tool available on college websites: the Net Price Calculator (NPC). The problem? Most net price calculators are unreliable—sometimes wildly. In a recent College Aid Pro counselor event, Matt Carpenter (College Aid Pro Co-Founder) and…

How No-Code Fixes Training Inefficiencies For decades, organizations have accepted the same training workflow: create content, upload it to an LMS, assign it to employees, track completions, and repeat every year or quarter. On the surface, this looks structured and controlled. But beneath that structure lies a layer of inefficiency that slows down employee performance, increases operational overhead, and drains L&D budgets. Traditional training programs are built around old assumptions: that organizations have time, that skills evolve slowly, that employees learn uniformly, and that training teams have limitless capacity. None of this is true anymore. Today’s businesses operate in fast-changing…

Purdue University is allegedly rejecting large numbers of Chinese graduate student applicants. wanderluster/iStock/Getty Images Current and prospective Purdue University graduate students say the institution rejected a slew of Chinese applicants from its grad programs for this academic year. Also, one grad student says the university told grad admissions committees in the past couple of months that it’s highly unlikely to accept students from any “adversary nation” for next year. Faculty were told those countries are China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela, said Kieran Hilmer, a teaching assistant on the leadership committee of Graduate Rights and Our Wellbeing (GROW),…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Mayor Eric Adams’ shakeup to elementary school reading curriculums had a clear goal: to align instruction with the “science of reading,” the catchphrase for a longstanding body of research. But in the rush to train teachers on the new curriculums, some literacy experts worried that there wasn’t enough emphasis on the basic theory and research behind the science of reading. As hundreds of schools transition away from popular programs that have…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / John Acuña Memorial Scholarship 2026 (Deadline: July 7, 2026) December 13, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: John Acuña was an incredible man who was a fixture of his community and an inspiration to many. John was an educator in Santa Ana, California, for more than forty years, making a great impact on the students he came into contact with. John was a proud member of the U.S. Army and founded the veteran center at Santa Ana College, paving a path for other veterans with dreams of higher education. This…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Discrimination doesn’t have to be intentional to cause harm. That’s the principle the federal government has long used to investigate and remedy disparities based on race, color or national origin in education and other programs receiving federal funds. But no longer, according to a new rule Attorney General Pam Bondi posted earlier this week.  The regulation does not “sufficiently serve the public interest” and violates President Trump’s executive order about promoting meritocracy, she wrote. The law, she said, “promises that people are treated as individuals,…

Federal payments to rural schools that lapsed more than a year ago are on track to resume—but they’d only be guaranteed through 2026, and they may come too late for some schools to reverse cuts they made during the delay.The U.S. House on Dec. 9 approved the Secure Rural Schools Act of 2025 and sent it to President Donald Trump, who’s expected to sign it soon. The latest iteration of the program allocates roughly $250 million in annual formula funds—as well as two years of back pay—for counties to pay for road improvements and help school districts that lose revenue…