ICYMI | Here are some headlines from last week: 🔦 UNC Student Group Illuminates Administration’s Opaque Decisions 🏠 National Institute on Transfer Finds a New Home 🛑 Mott Community College President Accused of Proselytizing on Campus Read the full weekly news update: https://bit.ly/40lydi5

ICYMI | Headlines from this week: 🎓 The Apprentice: Why Higher Ed Is Leaning Into Earn-and-Learn 💸 Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed 🔦 UNC Student Group Illuminates Administration’s Opaque Decisions Read the full weekly news update: https://bit.ly/40lydi5

U of Louisville to Close On-Campus Preschool https://bit.ly/4rTTYRY

After Researching Tenure’s History, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End It https://bit.ly/4tI01ed

Owner Wants to Give Away Green Mountain Campus https://bit.ly/4aC9pIR

Opinion | Friday Fragments An update on compensation, public investment in community colleges, The Girl’s job hunt, and a rare sports story. https://bit.ly/3MTN5Ba #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Green Mountain College closed in 2019 and was bought by an eccentric distiller (and former Apprentice contestant) in 2020. Now he wants to give the campus to someone focused on “the revival of the United States and Western Civilization.”

Another story out of Mott Community College: The college's president has been accused of proselytizing on campus. Some community members say she has a right to express her faith. Others say she's out of line. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

After Researching Tenure’s History, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End It www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Opinion | Secretary Hegseth, I Was There: Severing Military’s Ties With Harvard Is a Mistake From one Harvard alum to another, hear me out: Denying officers access to Harvard does not serve our fighting forces. https://bit.ly/46LkRPO #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Student Success | How One College Teaches Students Compassion The @uofdenver.bsky.social’s Compassion Lab helps students navigate disagreement and prepare for workplace success. https://bit.ly/4tHRkk5 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

31 Colleges Agree to End Partnerships With PhD Project The resolutions show that Trump’s crackdown on race-based programming isn’t over, despite recent court orders blocking the ED’s anti-DEI guidance. https://bit.ly/46igJ9X #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Mott Community College President Accused of Proselytizing on Campus The Board of Trustees met Wednesday to discuss claims that Shaunda Richardson-Snell made inappropriate religious remarks to students and campus visitors. It sparked fierce debate among community members. https://bit.ly/40h6aQS

UT Board Policy Asks Faculty to Avoid ‘Controversial’ Topics in Class The system board did not specify what topics are considered controversial or elaborate on how the policy will be enforced. The language echoes similar restrictions at the Texas A&M and Texas Tech systems. https://bit.ly/4kLnJC5

Career Advice | Slow AI Whether you’re an AI advocate or a skeptic, the slow AI movement has something to offer. https://bit.ly/4cBN7bg #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Censored Medical Research Restored to Federal Website https://bit.ly/4ar01HL

NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; O’Neill to Be Nominated NSF Director https://bit.ly/4s3kjx6 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Opinion | What if Colleges Experimented at the Edges? Under pressure, higher ed might find its next move by looking at the fringes. https://bit.ly/4qOy0ir #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The Virginia Senate rejected several lingering Youngkin board appointments yesterday. Those rejections included the entire Richard Bland College board, plus Eric Cantor at William & Mary. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; O’Neill to Be Nominated NSF Director www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

After ‘Rupture,’ Science Leaders Call for More Advocacy The Trump administration’s seismic disruptions to the academic research enterprise were top of mind at the annual meeting of the AAAS in Phoenix last week. bit.ly/4aH73Hl

Apprenticeship pathways are part of the experience imperative in higher ed's VUCA era: www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Opinion | AI Will Break Assessment Before It Fixes It It’s undermining how we evaluate learning—and opening the door to something better. https://bit.ly/4arzM46 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

🆕🎧 In this episode, host Sara Custer is joined by Robert Zemsky, the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education, to discuss his biggest project yet: championing three-year bachelor’s degrees in the U.S. Listen now ➡️ https://bit.ly/4tZTawO

Student Success | UVA Launches Career Design Initiative Building on a successful advising overhaul, UVA integrates career design into the curriculum to prepare undergraduates for life after college. https://bit.ly/4rul5Dk #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The Mathematician Lifting the Lid on Trump’s ‘Attacks’ The scientist behind the Trump Action Tracker uses skills in data collection to look for patterns in the president’s seemingly “scattergun” approach. https://bit.ly/4qGRPrT #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Employers Project Salary Increases for Most New Graduates Computer science majors are expected to get the biggest pay bump, according to new data from the @naceweb.org. https://bit.ly/4rWNZf3 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Trump Administration Agrees to End Race-Based Criteria for McNair Grant The decision ends a lawsuit from a conservative student group and will open up the doctoral grant program that originally targeted underrepresented students. https://bit.ly/4aoZ7LY #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

UNC Student Group Illuminates Administration’s Opaque Decisions Several recent policy changes at the University of North Carolina flagship have been made in secret with little, if any, communication to campus. The students in TransparUNCy are working to expose the process. https://bit.ly/3OPquGs

Career Advice | 4 Ways Chairs Can Develop Relational Attention Small decisions chairs make can have big impacts on how department members relate to one another and the culture that results, Emily Heaphy writes. https://bit.ly/3J7bCRx #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Labor Dept. Dedicates $65M to Community Colleges Preparing for Workforce Pell https://bit.ly/4aVlCrT

ED Investigates Louisiana Board of Regents Over Enrollment Goals https://bit.ly/4rXmAtl

Labouré College to Close https://bit.ly/4czZVio

UCLA CFO Out After Claiming Administrators Mishandled Finances https://bit.ly/4aqYCks

Opinion | The Smoothie-fication of Higher Ed Have colleges and universities dumped themselves into a higher ed blender and come out as smoothies? https://bit.ly/4aWR5Kn #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Opinion | What I’m Seeing in My Classroom Isn’t Just About Failure to Meet Deadlines Wider structural forces lie behind shifting classroom norms. https://bit.ly/3ZFU5of #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Student Success | AI Usage Mirrors Young People’s Offline Struggles A national survey finds that AI affects youth mental health more through context than frequency, reflecting young people’s offline support and stress. https://bit.ly/4kFnIzr #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Why One AI Administrator Is Skeptical of AI Matthew Connelly, a vice dean for AI initiatives at Columbia University, has been using machine learning for 15 years. But as more students have turned to generative AI over the past few years, he’s noticed a worrying shift. https://bit.ly/4c22862

National Institute on Transfer Finds a New Home After fears of closure, NISTS—a repository for the study of transfer students—is relocating to the University of South Carolina. https://bit.ly/4aFxYmY #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Richard Bland College Board Removed Virginia lawmakers rejected seven lingering board picks from former governor Glenn Youngkin, effectively removing the entire Richard Bland College Board of Visitors. https://bit.ly/468i4A4 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed The budget bill would also freeze tuition revenue, allow institutions to fire tenured faculty faster and develop plans to eliminate a tenth of positions and expenses from universities’ leadership offices. https://bit.ly/46JE988

Career Advice | Burnout by a Million Paper Cuts Behold: a job posting you’d never accept, but already did. https://bit.ly/4bWOW2n

Defense Dept. Weighs Ending Graduate Tuition Assistance at 34 U.S. Institutions https://bit.ly/4tH7YjE

Georgetown Taps Liz Magill as Law Dean https://bit.ly/4aDB2jg

Opinion | You Say ‘Elite.’ The Public Hears ‘Elitist.’ Higher education’s standard-bearers—the wealthiest, most selective colleges and universities—refer to themselves as if they're better than everyone else. That isn’t good for them or for higher education. https://bit.ly/4rQWmbZ #EDUSky

AI is changing the way people interact with news, etc., including @insidehighered.com so this makes sense. My 2c is wondering if ChatGPT free adding ads will make chatbot searches a little more "old school," at least for colleges w/paid ads. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Virginia Tech Bans University-Funded Identity-Based Graduations www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

A group of state higher ed leaders are on a mission to get rid of the term "noncredit." They argue it underplays the value of these programs and shortchanges students.

ICYMI: A new report from the Congressional Budget Office projects that by the end of FY 2026, the Pell Grant program will be short $5.5 billion; that number skyrockets to $11.5 billion in FY 2027 if Congress doesn’t make cuts or put in new money. For students, this could mean dramatic grant cuts.