Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity.
In a recent speech at Hillsdale College, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon berated colleges and universities for having tens of thousands of administrators and yet few “true leaders.” “The crisis of higher education is first and foremost a crisis of leadership,” as she put it. McMahon ended her remarks with a plea: “I hope my talk today will be watched or read critically by higher education leaders.”
Three college presidents offer their response to McMahon's comments.
High school and college educators around the country say the use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.
The question now is how schools can adapt. As AI technology rapidly improves and becomes more entwined with daily life, it is transforming how students learn and study, how teachers teach, and it’s creating new confusion over what constitutes academic dishonesty.
Noncredit certificates offered by community colleges and other providers in recent years have gained wide appeal. Many students see them as a quick route to the immediate reward of a better job without going into loan debt for a two- or four-year degree. Lawmakers see them as a key driver of state workforces. But they remain under the radar, not subject to most data gathering or many government-accountability measures.
Now, a regional accreditor is venturing into this booming but little-understood industry. Lawrence M. Schall, president of the New England Commission of Higher Education, explains more about the challenges and potential benefits of noncredit accreditation.
Should college campuses be open to the outside community? More school officials are asking that question after campus shootings, like the one at Utah Valley University that killed Charlie Kirk, and after the encampments and protests that erupted two years ago in the wake of the October 7 attacks and the bombardment of Gaza.
College leaders and law enforcement officers weigh in on the changing landscape of campus safety in this interview.
Roanoke College is one of about a dozen schools to add football programs in the last two years, with several more set to do so in 2026. Officials hope that having a team will increase enrollment, especially of men, whose ranks in college have been falling.
Yet research consistently finds that while enrollment may spike initially, adding football does not produce long-term enrollment gains, or if it does, it is only for a few years.
An estimated 59 percent of all college students experienced some form of housing or food insecurity in the past year, according to 2024 data from the Hope Center at Temple University. Close to three out of four students lacked access to other basic needs, such as mental health care, childcare, transportation, or technology.
At Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, it was students who first noticed their peers needed additional resources. Their efforts eventually became a campuswide intervention for all types of students.
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