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AI in Higher Education: What College Leaders Need to Know

August 10, 2026

I’ve been following the developments in generative AI since ChatGPT was released in November 2022. At first, many of the higher education conversations that I read or heard were focused…

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Reading Dream School as an Enrollment Strategy: Five Imperatives for…

July 22, 2026

Jeff Selingo wrote Dream School for families. College leaders, especially those at tuition-dependent, four-year residential undergraduate institutions, should read it as market research. Across the book, a consistent message emerges:…

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Examining the Five Forces Changing the College Admissions Process

July 16, 2026

My obsessive read this month has been The Signal Solution: How Smart Colleges Stop Chasing Applications and Start Converting Students by Geoff Baird and Teege Mettille. It’s a work of…

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The Impact of High College Cost of Attendance on Low-Income…

July 8, 2026

The recent proliferation of articles regarding Congress’s cap on federal student loans, following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, has focused primarily on the impact on graduate students…

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The Community Premium: Why Private Colleges Must Redefine Their Value…

July 1, 2026

When I was in sixth grade, I received an academic scholarship to an independent school in Maryland. It changed the direction of my life. My experiences at that private school…

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Agentic AI and How It Will Change Work

June 24, 2026

The first wave of generative AI changed how people write, search, summarize, code, and brainstorm. Since the first version of ChatGPT was opened to the public, I’ve written frequently about…

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Sidetracked at Mid-Career: A Valuable Warning About Work’s Hidden Plateau…

June 19, 2026

I have been a fan of the large workforce-related datasets that the Burning Glass Institute utilizes for its frequent research. A new report issued last week by the NYU School…

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The Uncomfortable Lesson of “Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer…

June 12, 2026

The headline finding of Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers is almost too neat. When law professors were asked to choose between short answers written by other law professors and…

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The Wicked Problem Studio: Preparing for a Future of Learning…

June 8, 2026

It’s almost impossible to read any news about education without reading articles about the future impact of Artificial Intelligence on how we learn and how we work. If there’s a…

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