@usedgov.bsky.social Panel to Weigh Sorting of Grad and Professional Programs Professional programs get access to more federal dollars under a new law, raising the stakes for next week’s policy negotiation. https://bit.ly/42NmZob #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSKy

Career Advice | A Final Project That Can Bring Joy and Meaning With the rise of AI-enabled cheating, a creative assignment can be a powerful alternative to the traditional term paper, Peter C. Herman writes. https://bit.ly/47YvfFm #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

2026–27 FAFSA Form Now Available to All https://bit.ly/4nNuOST #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HIgherEd

Purdue to Send Professor, Grad Student and Alumni Into Space https://bit.ly/4nNTN8y #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

🆕🎧 In this episode of The Key Podcast, host Sara Custer is joined by Beverly Daniel Tatum, two-time college president, and New York Times bestselling author to discuss her latest book, "College Leadership in Turbulent Times: Peril and Promise." Listen now ➡️ https://bit.ly/47VnNea

Kentucky Agrees to End In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students https://bit.ly/48Fwg5k

Angelo State Allows LGBQ Discussions, Holds Firm on Anti-Trans Policies https://bit.ly/480ylZB #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Opinion | Campus Workers Hold Clues to Higher Ed’s Trust Problem Do colleges do enough to support staff in their unofficial roles as mentors and confidants? https://bit.ly/3KmhI0u #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Tariffs and Higher Ed Tariffs will likely put more pressure on financial aid budgets even as income inequality can be expected to grow, Catharine Hill writes. https://bit.ly/42e08lz #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Student Success | Teaching Students Healthy Eating Habits Fewer than half of college students rate their nutrition at college above average. Here are some interventions colleges are using to support students’ physical health. https://bit.ly/4njvb7L

Missouri Merged 2 Agencies. What Can Trump Learn From the Show-Me State? As the Trump admin looks to merge career and technical education services between the @usedgov.bsky.social and Dept. of Labor, IHE spoke with Missouri state officials who underwent a similar process. https://bit.ly/4njWwqq

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Gutted NCES Releases First Batch of Higher Ed Data Experts say they have no reason to mistrust the new data, but aspects of the rollout suggest the @usedgov.bsky.social could struggle to maintain quality with fewer resources. https://bit.ly/3ICwpfh #EDUSky #AcademicSky

@vanderbilt.edu Eyes National Expansion The university plans to build a campus in Florida, has leased a site in New York City and aims to establish a foothold in California in its quest to grow beyond Nashville. https://bit.ly/4pLrFoG

Colleges Hope Tuition Guarantees Will Open Doors to Lower-Income Students Income-based tuition guarantees are on the rise, with many universities saying they aim to make their already-generous financial aid policies as explicit as possible. https://bit.ly/46pE1v2 #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Career Advice Reminder | No Research About Us Without Us Research labs benefit if faculty are inclusive of students with disabilities, a group of scholars and students committed to inclusive lab practices write. https://bit.ly/3HMYvnH #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Walmart Heir Gifts $115M to Arizona State https://bit.ly/4njQiHb

Miami Dade College Could House Trump’s Presidential Library https://bit.ly/42aZ0PA

Judge Restores Another Batch of Frozen Grants to UCLA https://bit.ly/46CBWuk

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Former UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Chris Clemens sued trustees over what appears to be brazen defiance of open meeting laws and accused them of secretly using the Signal app to sidestep oversight. Ironically, he also used Signal for university business. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

A decades-old arm of the Health and Human Services Department is now helping to wage Trump’s crusade against alleged antisemitism, special benefits for minorities and transgender women participating in women’s sports. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

As of Monday, it appears that Angelo State has softened its policies to allow preferred names and LGBQ content, but not transgender discussions. If anyone at Angelo State wants to chat with me about it, I'm on Signal at emmawhitford.96 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Opinion | Not Just Another AI Statement: Modeling Process and Collaboration in Higher Education A guest post from Crystal N. Fodrey and Kristi Girdharry. https://bit.ly/4mvHYD2 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

Opinion | Course Correction Asking students to interview faculty before they sign up for classes is a practice more colleges should try, Nicolaus Mills writes. https://bit.ly/3KhoapC #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Student Success | Going Old-School: Professors Use Print Books to Teach AI Faculty members help students practice close reading and analysis with a physical book, building life skills and social connection. https://bit.ly/46CJbT9 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Angelo State May Ban Pride Flags, Pronouns and Preferred Names The new policies, if fully implemented, will also prohibit any discussion of transgender topics. It’s the latest assault on academic freedom at Texas public institutions. https://bit.ly/46jmPqS #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

How One University Is Reimagining a Humanities Ph.D. Program @cmu.edu is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. The reframe comes as many humanities graduate programs face an uncertain future. https://bit.ly/4ngm7R7

Former Provost Accuses UNC Chapel Hill Board of Violating State Law Chris Clemens alleged in his lawsuit that some board members and a dean violated state open meetings and records laws. A professor says his suit is “hypocritical.” https://bit.ly/4mwc09O #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The Other Office for Civil Rights A decades-old arm of the Health and Human Services Department is now helping to wage Trump’s crusade against alleged antisemitism, special benefits for minorities and transgender women participating in women’s sports. https://bit.ly/42H5tlr #AcademicSky #EDUSky

Career Advice | What We Mean by ‘Shared Governance’ Faculty and administrators often have very different ideas of the rights and responsibilities involved, Lee Bebout and Jeff Crane write. https://bit.ly/3KEnavG #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

New @aaup.org Report Accuses Trump of Weaponizing Civil Rights Law https://bit.ly/4niZV9f #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

@txst.edu Prof Sues, Claiming Free Speech, Contract Violations https://bit.ly/3KfXJRb #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HIgherEd

@usedgov.bsky.social Gives @harvard.edu 20 Days to Provide Admissions Info https://bit.ly/4nLLOZR #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Seamless by Design: Reducing Friction Through Smarter Campus Systems https://bit.ly/422SSsI #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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#AICUP President Tom Foley leads a panel discussion on #workforce and #highered at the @insidehighered.com #USUniversitiesSummit. 👉 www.timeshighered-events.com/us-universit... #IHE #InsideHigherEd #THE @timeshighered.bsky.social #workforcedevelopment #NationalWorkforceDevelopmentMonth

Keeping tabs on international student enrollment for the fall, spoiler alert, it looks mostly bad for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Opinion | 3 Questions for Fractional COLO Jeremiah Grabowski A new chief online learning officer model. https://bit.ly/4msi2bz #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Opinion | What’s So Conservative About Civics, Anyway? Eric Hartman asks how colleges can move civics education beyond this hyperpartisan moment. https://bit.ly/46kdq2r #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Student Success | Most Low-Income Students Find Bachelor’s Degrees Unaffordable A new analysis by the National College Attainment Network finds that a majority of public colleges are financially out of reach for the average low-income student. https://bit.ly/3W9S9Cl #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46j11uj

International Enrollment Down at Regional Publics, Small Private Colleges Large, selective colleges enroll the greatest share of international students. But they’re not the institutions feeling enrollment drops so far this fall, early data shows. https://bit.ly/3W5nK8g #EDUSky #AcademicSky

University of Nebraska–Lincoln Proposes Cutting Ed Administration Programs University leaders say they need to slash the budget. Education administration professors say it’ll sever a pipeline to education leadership roles. https://bit.ly/42D0qCw

How the Education Dept. Wants to Advance ‘Patriotic Education’ Professional historians say the department’s plan is part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to create an Orwellian “truth ministry” and omit the more troubling aspects of the nation’s past. https://bit.ly/4nfvvVl

Career Advice Reminder | A Multiday In-Class Essay for the ChatGPT Era John Robison explains how, using Lockdown Browser, he tried to replicate key elements of the traditional take-home humanities essay in a new assignment. https://bit.ly/4gGzzeK #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Hong Kong Lifts Cap on Nonlocal Students to 50% Starting in the 2026–27 academic year, policymakers will allow universities to accept more intl. students as the island seeks to capitalize on the U.S. crackdown. Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/3Vy4oIO #HigherEd

Concerns Mount Over Future of McNair Scholars So far, 18 McNair program grants have been canceled. The Education Department says it will issue awards for the rest of them by the end of the month. https://bit.ly/3Ib6rQ9 #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EDUSky

In Trump’s America, Admissions Counselors Persevere At the annual gathering of over 6,100 high school guidance counselors and college admissions officers, attendees sought to better understand how, exactly, the Trump administration’s war on higher education would impact them. https://bit.ly/46kbSpa

Career Advice | A Better Way to Prepare for Job Interviews Here are four steps for better interview preparation, Derek Attig writes. https://bit.ly/42K6SYq #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EDUSky