Noncredit certificates offered by community colleges and other providers in recent years have gained wide appeal. Many students see them as a quick route to the immediate reward of a better job without going into loan debt for a two- or four-year degree. Read more

Long-term trends including declining birth rate mean number of students looking to study abroad set to be much lower in only 10 years’ time Read more

A new program from the libertarian Cato Institute will help students learn about navigating difficult conversations on campus. Cato Courses, which officially launches on Wednesday, will also help students learn about libertarian ideas including limited government and free markets. Read more

Increasing political influence in higher education has led more than a quarter of professors in the South to plan to apply for positions in other states, according to a recent report by the American Association of University Professors. Read more

More than 16,700 employees at colleges and universities got H-1B visas approved in fiscal year 2025, but they are concentrated at 100 large research institutions. Read more

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist. Read more

A professor lets his students shape how they take his course. Read more

Researchers replicate impact of Trump’s cuts on previous decades, identifying steep drop in medical innovations Read more

A panic over ‘brain rot’ obscures a more complex — and surprising — reality. Read more

Brown University’s program in “Critical Native American and Indigenous Studies” does not currently have any freshmen enrolled in the concentration, which is the equivalent of a major. Read more