Category: Higher Education
Empowering Learning in the Age of Generative AI: A Manifesto
FIRST PUBLISHED ON SUBSTACK In 2007, I was invited to deliver a ‘keynote’ at the opening of the National e-Learning […]
January 21, 2026
Search Everywhere Optimization: Reinventing Student Discovery for the AI Era
For decades, the enrollment funnel followed a familiar script: search, click, visit, inquire. That script no longer describes how decisions […]
January 20, 2026
Reclaiming the academic community: why universities need more than metrics
by Sigurður Kristinsson For decades, talk of “the academic community” has flowed easily through mission statements, strategy documents, and speeches […]
January 20, 2026
As men stop going to college, women have now overtaken them in graduate and professional degrees
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report January 20, 2026 WATERTOWN, Mass. — Amanda Leef remembers thinking for the first time […]
January 20, 2026
OPINION: U.S. colleges need more men. Trump’s new policies inadvertently disadvantage them, especially at selective schools
by Catharine Hill, The Hechinger Report January 20, 2026 While attending a gathering of Ivy League women years ago, I […]
January 20, 2026
Trump’s admissions data collection strains college administrators
by Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report January 19, 2026 Lynette Duncan didn’t expect to spend 20 hours over the past […]
January 19, 2026
Imagining otherwise: how students practise political agency
by Anu Lainio and Anna Sofia Salonen “I also feel that the sense of hopefulness…is essential. Without it there isn’t […]
January 16, 2026
Shape the Future or Get Left Behind: The New Reality for Higher Ed Leaders
Higher education is fundamentally rewiring in ways most legacy playbooks can’t handle. Declining birth rates, growing skepticism about the value […]
January 14, 2026
OPINION: Colleges must start treating immigration-based targeting as a serious threat to student safety and belonging
by Madison Forde, The Hechinger Report January 12, 2026 Last month, a Boston University junior proudly posted online that he […]
January 12, 2026