The plan to create a national online college is a political nonstarter, experts say, but it capitalizes on concerns about price and politics in higher education. Read more

Ohio State University has more than doubled its diversity staff in just five years, hiring more than 100 new DEI-related employees between 2018 and 2023, swelling the headcount from 88 to 189, a College Fix analysis found. Read more

A swath of learners who left college before earning a degree say microcredentials and credit for prior learning could entice them back to college, according to a new survey. Read more

Student protesters at Columbia University walked out of international and public affairs classes Wednesday afternoon — including a lecture by Hillary Clinton — to stand with pro-Palestinian students who have been doxxed and harassed, and feel threatened and unsafe on campus. Read more

Schools closed for 45,000 students in strike union says is first ever walkout in Portland school district Read more

Educating aspiring geologists in field camps is problematic and needs to be fundamentally changed, according to some critics of the practice, prompting one famed geologist to cry foul. Read more

High interest in the field has led to overcrowded classes and other issues. Now some institutions are adding requirements to help force students out of the major. Read more

With Gen Z students loving non-degree pathways, the next logical line of thinking for some degree-granting colleges and universities is what they can do to enlighten potential students of their institutions’ benefits. Read more

Group hopes to instigate culture change in UK higher education to stop ‘toleration’ of bullies Read more

Educators are trying to understand how these tools work and, perhaps most pressingly, how they can be misused Read more