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Tim Killeen is the president of the University of Illinois System.U.S. News: How can prospective students decide if the University of Illinois is right for them?Killeen: Choosing a university is about finding a place where a student can thrive and grow academically, personally and professionally. I often encourage prospective students to ask not simply, “Where will I go to college?” but, “Where will I develop the skills, experiences and networks that will positively shape the rest of my life and prepare me to be a lifelong contributor to my family, my community and the world?” Across our three universities that…

Ready Your Team For AI Every leader responsible for talent management feels the ground shifting. The core competencies that define a great employee today become obsolete faster than we can track. What was cutting-edge yesterday feels like standard practice today and will be outdated tomorrow. On the TalentLMS podcast, talent expert Sagar Goel states, “This is the concept of the half-life of skills, where the number today is five years, which means every five years, half of your skills become redundant.” The reason behind this rapid shift is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It acts as a catalyst, reshaping complex, cognitive roles…

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Oregon State University Cascades has removed chancellor and dean Sherman Bloomer over information revealed during an investigation led by the university’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Central Oregon Daily News reported. According to a message to the campus community from OSU provost and executive vice president Roy Haggerty, the investigation is being “conducted by an outside team” and began after the Office of Audit Risk and Compliance received a complaint on March 18. Details of the complaint have not been made public. “I ask for patience as investigators continue to work deliberately and expeditiously according to university policies,” Haggerty…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Fifteen-year-old Josiah Owens is considering owning a gun one day because he wants protection. He doesn’t want to suffer the same fate as his best friend, whom he says survived a shooting a couple of years ago. Owens, a sophomore at Disney II Magnet High School on the Northwest Side, was one of 23 Chicago teens ages 13 to 17 who took part in a recent weeklong program to learn about the risks of gun ownership and how to share those statistics with peers through…

Illinois appropriates more than twice as much money for higher education as the national average. Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images States and localities spent $130.7 billion on higher education in fiscal year 2025—the highest sum since 1980, when the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association started tracking public appropriations for higher education. Despite the record spending total, per-student spending declined for the first time since 2012, according to SHEEO’s latest State Higher Education Finance report, published today. After adjusting for inflation, total state spending grew 2.6 percent during fiscal 2025, but the bump wasn’t enough to keep up with enrollment growth—full-time student…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter As soon as Amanda Pacheco stepped onto the streets of Babcock Ranch — a fast-growing, master-planned community near Fort Myers, Florida — she knew it was where she and her family belonged. “It was like a Hallmark movie,” she said of that Friday night visit, dotted with groups of families, food trucks and live music. “People always ask me why I picked Babcock, but it kind of chooses you,” she said, recalling how she and her husband decided that night to sell their home a…

Is Your Business Aligned With Training? A C-suite and L&D partnership can be challenging. But every relationship, whether personal or professional, is complicated. With different roles come different expectations we have for ourselves, our partners, and our work. In a relationship, each party usually looks to build a successful future together, keeping their own interests or desires in mind. And if there is no mutual interest, well, there’s no other way to put it: the relationship will be a real drag. The “I hate you, I love you” kind of thing only works in romantic comedies. The same goes for…

The White House is on a mission to defund minority-serving institutions, places that have provided economic mobility and workforce training for millions of students—low-income, minoritized or both—for decades. The president’s budget request, released Friday, proposes cutting $354 million in MSI funding from the Education Department. MSIs were nowhere to be found in the department’s latest application for grant programs serving low-resourced institutions. To dispel any doubt about the president’s intentions, MSIs were among nearly a dozen programs on Trump’s “Cuts to Woke Programs Fact Sheet” that were zeroed out in the name of “eliminating radical gender and racial ideologies that poison…

Joseph G. Altonji & Zhengren Zhu, PEER Center This piece was featured in The Washington Post and Inside Higher Ed , among other sources.