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Learning and Employment Records: What Will Turn Promise Into Widespread…

September 16, 2026

Consider a working adult who has completed college courses, earned an industry certification, supervised employees, and acquired technical skills on the job. How should that person demonstrate what they know…

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AI and the First Rung of the Career Ladder: What…

September 10, 2026

As I continue looking for research to support some of the premises in a book about the future of colleges in the age of artificial intelligence, I have been looking…

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AI, Experience, and the Future Value of College: What MIT’s…

September 3, 2026

As I continue to think through the ideas for a possible book on the future of private colleges in the era of artificial intelligence, I have been looking for institutional…

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The Community Premium: How Private Colleges Can Become Indispensable in…

August 28, 2026

Author’s Note and Rights Reservation This essay is adapted from a work-in-progress book project tentatively titled The Community Premium: How Private Colleges Can Become Indispensable in the Age of AI.…

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What EdTech Investors Look for in Education Startups

August 13, 2026

What EdTech Investors Look for in Education Startups Education technology continues to attract entrepreneurs who believe that schools, colleges, employers, and learners need better tools. They are usually correct. The…

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Capping the Parent PLUS Loan Programs: Good for Students?

August 12, 2026

I have been a college affordability advocate for decades. When I was an undergraduate at Duke in the 1970s, I graduated with only $2,100 in student loan debt thanks to…

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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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