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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 8h

Many 2025 ‘Genius’ Fellows Affiliated With Universities https://bit.ly/46Y80cd

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 10h

@notredame.bsky.social Receives 2 Gifts Totaling More Than $200M https://bit.ly/4q7MMla

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 10h

House Dem Leader Demands Hearing Over Political Out-of-Office Emails https://bit.ly/478c6yS

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 12h

🆕🎧 In this episode of The Key Podcast, host Sara Custer is joined by IHE's news editor Katherine Knott to unpack everything: funding cuts to MSIs, new international student policies, and, yes—that compact that everyone’s talking about.

Listen now ➡️ https://bit.ly/3IQnI1g

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 21h

Saudi Arabia Approves Branch Campus for Longtime Partner U of New Haven
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Saudi Arabia OKs Campus for U of New Haven

The institution says it started educating Saudi royal family members in the ’90s and later developed curricula for a Saudi “security college,” despite criticism. Now it could be the first university a...

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 13h

Opinion | Transparency Now or Regulation Later

The debate over higher education’s worth has shifted from societal benefit to individual ROI. Colleges that embrace cost transparency and affordability can prove their value on their own terms—before lawmakers mandate it. https://bit.ly/4mSyB0l

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 14h

Opinion | No, OPT Isn’t a Guest Worker Program

But if it were, it’d be a model one, James Kaemmerer writes. https://bit.ly/470WyN2

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 15h

Student Success | Team Teaching Benefits Faculty and Students

Most first-year courses at @hmc.edu are team-taught, exposing students to a variety of disciplines, teaching styles and resources on campus. https://bit.ly/46UyH1C

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 16h

U.S. Continues to Drop in @timeshighered.bsky.social World University Rankings

The latest tables, released Wednesday, show the U.S. was losing ground to global competitors before the Trump administration upended academic research funding. https://bit.ly/4nBtanI

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 17h

Coppin State Grows Enrollment With In-State Tuition Offers

Two years ago, the Baltimore university said students in states without HBCUs could attend for in-state prices. This year, it boasted its largest incoming class in over two decades. https://bit.ly/3J0wg5E

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 18h

Saudi Arabia Approves Branch Campus for Longtime Partner U of New Haven

The institution says it started educating Saudi royal family members in the ’90s & later developed curricula for a Saudi “security college,” despite criticism. Now it could be the first to open a campus. https://bit.ly/4h71pB4

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 19h

Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi, as Critics Scrutinize Them

Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity. https://bit.ly/4q3VMaW

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 19h

Career Advice | Leading Through Moral Injury

Instead of a politics of divide and conquer, we can choose collaboration; instead of scarcity narratives, we can seek abundance and equity, Leonie H. Mattison writes. https://bit.ly/3KLXH3A

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21h

Western Accreditor Officially Drops DEI Standards https://bit.ly/3IB1EaT

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Trump Officials Reportedly Discussing Selling Off Student Loans https://bit.ly/4pYM09Q

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

@aaup.org, Other Unions Sue Trump Admin Over H-1B Fee https://bit.ly/43b6kuR

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Scientist Wins @nobelprize.bsky.social for Chemistry https://bit.ly/4nE7Spn

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Marketing, Enrollment and Product Launches

Three tips for higher ed from the rollout of The Life of a Showgirl. https://bit.ly/48g87lT

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Opinion | Stop Labeling Students ‘First-Gen’

We shouldn’t be foisting the label on individual students—but that doesn’t mean we can’t do more to make campuses more broadly accessible and just, Steven P. Dandaneau writes. https://bit.ly/3KGVsyz

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 1d

With Compact, Universities Weigh Whether to Give Up Freedoms for Unknown Payout
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How Trump’s Compact Threatens Higher Ed Funding, Freedom

Higher ed organizations have raised alarm over a federal government document that asks universities to agree to significant restrictions without specifying what they’ll gain—or what they’ll lose for r...

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Student Success | Community College Students Want a Social Life

A survey by EAB finds that two-year students have been disappointed by their college experience when it comes to making friends and feeling as though they belong on campus. https://bit.ly/4nD95xf

#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Economic Uncertainty Spurred Cuts in September

Multiple institutions axed jobs and programs last month due to a mix of factors, but the deepest cuts came at Washington University in St. Louis, which has a $12 billion endowment. https://bit.ly/4pRXSdM

#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Why Anthology Unraveled

Four years after Anthology Inc. acquired Blackboard as part of its plan to become “the most comprehensive ed-tech ecosystem,” the company is bankrupt and selling many of its parts. https://bit.ly/4362TFR

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated an Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities. https://bit.ly/3J2HUgi

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEe

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

With Compact, Universities Weigh Whether to Give Up Freedoms for Unknown Payout

Higher ed orgs raised alarm over a federal government document that asks universities to agree to significant restrictions without specifying what they’ll gain—or what they’ll lose for refusing. https://bit.ly/48hftpj

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