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Vickie Cook Champions Microcredentials and AI as Keys to Higher Ed’s Future

MindMax

She highlights the importance of helping students understand how to integrate AI and human judgment effectively. – Telling impactful stories to legislators and stakeholders, stressing the importance of communicating universities missions in a way that resonates. Watch the full conversation.

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Montana State's Dr. Waded Cruzado Makes History as APLU's First Latina President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cruzado, who will assume the role on July 1, brings a deeply personal connection to the land-grant university mission, having begun her higher education journey as a first-generation college student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. She holds a Ph.D.

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Student Affairs Practitioners Must Rest to Resistance

ACPA

By: Yulissa Chavez Tena Grind culture has made us all human machines, willing and ready to donate our lives to a capitalist system that thrives by placing profits over people. In monthly meetings, we made personal connections with our ancestors who taught us to rest and gained clarity in our purpose as humans to simply exist.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Inside Higher Ed

Cutting resources by level of use would appear to be the easiest method, but what if the 2-3 people who use a comparatively low use, specialized journal are leading a multi-million dollar research grant on a topic that is core to the university mission? modified from NISO 39.7-2013, 2013, section 3.7]

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CU Boulder Chancellor DiStefano: Lessons learned from 50 years in higher ed

University Business

Successful graduates are not simply those with the highest employment levels or the biggest salaries; a truly successful graduate leaves college prepared to support and sustain a diverse democracy, participating in civic life in ways that positively impact humanity.

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Education's future: A choice between complicity and resistance

Campus Sonar

Actions that stop applications for income-driven student loan repayment plans , cut funding to public schools , eliminate Head Start and universal access to quality early childhood education , and limit knowledge of the broad spectrum of the human experience , will be catastrophic for higher education. Download the white paper.