Senior leadership is beginning to view alternative credentials as a fundamental aspect of their enrollment strategy—and accreditors are listening. But costs, opaque data and unfruitful corporate outreach efforts have prevented colleges and universities from implementing the programs at scale, to name a few barriers. Read more

Can AI help restaurant owners come up with tasty new menus to tempt customers, or is this just a recipe for disaster? Read more

Critics say a directive to make federally funded research immediately free to the public could violate authors’ copyrights. It could also disrupt the $19 billion academic publishing industry. Read more

Working-class undergraduates who juggle paid work with their studies are finding it difficult to devote long hours to their course, says Randall Whittaker Read more

Special access granted to DfE resources to train AI models to generate workbooks and lesson plans Read morew

The California Institute of Technology’s incoming class is 50 percent female for the first time in history, sparking concern from one legal expert about a focus on gender parity initiatives rather than merit. Read more

The Virginia women’s college made the change to comport with its founding documents, creating a stricter gender admissions policy than many of its peers. Read more

A Barbie-branded phone has been launched in the UK and Europe with the aim – its makers say – of helping young people take a break from their smartphones. Read more

As freshmen thumbed through dorm posters and shopped for school supplies at the University of Alabama’s student center during the first week of school, other spaces in the building were noticeably empty. Read more

Institutions mull estates buyback schemes and more major cutbacks as post-clearing reality hits Read more