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By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Looking back on 2025, GenAI skills remain a major focus for learners worldwide — but this year, we also saw a powerful surge in foundational workforce skills like project management, leadership, and data literacy. As AI rapidly transforms everything we know, what unites us across universities and industries is how we can help the world’s learners master the right skills they need to grow their careers. 2025 year in review: Platform growth and learner demand This year, 22 million new learners joined Coursera — nearly 82,000 people every day. A typical day…

The Brown University shooting suspect remains at large as of Monday afternoon, multiple local news organizations report, and the FBI is offering up to a $50,000 reward for information. The reward comes after a person of interest was released after being briefly detained Sunday. The two students who died have been identified. One was a first-year student, MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, who immigrated to the states from Uzbekistan but grew up in New York and Virginia; the other was a second-year student from Alabama, Ella Cook, according to The Boston Globe. Eight others remain in the hospital: One is in critical condition,…

Dive Brief: DePaul University on Friday laid off 114 staff members, senior leaders of the Catholic nonprofit said Monday. The reductions, representing just under 8% of the Chicago university’s staff, come as DePaul tries to resolve a $12.6 million shortfall in its fiscal 2026 budget, driven in part by declines in international enrollment.   “Supporting our students and providing an excellent education remain our top priority,” the senior leaders said Monday. “We want to emphasize that university leaders worked to minimize cuts to the student experience, including on-campus employment.” Dive Insight: In late September, the same group of leaders — President…

Devin Greer, UCSB Devin Greer thinks American politics needs rebranding.

About 40 percent of students participate in work-based learning, but access to such programs is not equitable. Phynart Studio/Getty Images A new report found that only one in five California college students were fully satisfied with the career guidance they received, with many saying the help often arrived too late. The data, released by California Competes, comes as more than 80 percent of first-year college students say obtaining a better job is a very important reason they enrolled in college. “There’s a real opportunity for higher ed to do better because students want more and there’s a lot of room for improvement,”…

December 16, 2025 Innovative visual biofeedback technology, developed by a Montclair State University speech-language pathology professor, is helping children with speech sound disorders and training future SLPs Posted in: College for Community Health, Research, University Eight-year-old Colette Fougere works on her ‘r’ sound with Montclair SLP graduate student researcher Alexis Gallagher using visual-acoustic biofeedback technology. (Photo by John J. LaRosa) Eight-year-old Colette Fougere is finally learning to pronounce her ‘r’ sounds after just a few weeks of a new speech-language therapy intervention at Montclair State University’s Speech-Language Pathology Clinic. Working closely with a graduate student researcher and using visual-acoustic biofeedback…

An investigation cleared Pines of academic misconduct. University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland College Park President Darryll Pines did not commit academic misconduct, an investigation determined, clearing him of plagiarism allegations that emerged last September. A joint investigation that involved both the campus and the University System of Maryland but was led by an outside law firm “found no evidence of misconduct on the part of President Pines,” according to an emailed announcement from College Park and system officials sent on Friday. Last fall, Pines was accused of lifting 1,500 words from a tutorial website for a 5,000-word…

Thank you for subscribing! The semester is winding down, and soon campuses will quiet as students head home for winter break. For many, this marks a time of joy and reunion with family and old friends. But for some, this quiet might bring a sense of feeling alone or disappointed about the connections they haven’t quite forged in their first few months of college.     Win more scholarships with less effort Simplify and focus your application process with the one-stop platform for vetted scholarships. Check for scholarships If you’re heading home feeling like you haven’t found your people yet,…

AI Tools: Everything You Need To Know About Their Functions And Features Artificial Intelligence has made a significant impact across multiple industries, and most recently in Learning and Development and the HR tech market. More and more businesses are using AI tools to streamline processes, provide personalized learning, and expand their market reach more quickly and efficiently. However, as the number of AI tool vendors rapidly grows, choosing the right solution for your business can become a complicated task. If you are interested in delving deeper into the world of AI tools but aren’t sure where to start, you have…

Marcus Johnson negotiated his own record deal at age 19. Once his deals didn’t work out, he realized that he needed to be on the other side of the desk, too. So, he earned a juris doctor (law degree) and an MBA. Expanding boundaries The record deal came, he told students recently in a new ventures creation class taught by Adjunct Instructor of Entrepreneurship and Dean Emeritus of the Shenandoah School of Business Miles Davis, Ph.D., as he studied music engineering and technology at the University of Miami. During his graduate studies at Georgetown University, he released two CDs of…