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Moody’s Warns of Credit Risk for Colleges Reliant on International Enrollment

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Moody’s Warns of Credit Risk for Colleges Reliant on International Enrollment Johanna Alonso Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM As the president’s campaign against international students persists, the ratings company says that certain institutions, especially those already operating on slim margins, may face financial consequences.

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ResEdChat Ep 128: Developing RA360.org: The Free Online Open-Source “RA Textbook”

Roompact

For this week's episode, we're pleased to introduce our 2025 ACUHO-I Intern, Venus, and have her share more about the work she's been doing on the RA360 resource library. She details what has gone into this project up to this point and how she envisions teams using the content to support their student staff training and development efforts.

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Religion’s Shifting Role in Higher Ed

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Religion’s Shifting Role in Higher Ed Sara Weissman Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.

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How One Campus Protects Global Opportunities in a Divided Climate

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How One Campus Protects Global Opportunities in a Divided Climate When higher education becomes a battleground for political and cultural debates, what’s at stake for international education? In this episode of Via Voices, Kathleen Fairfax, Vice Provost for International Affairs at Colorado State University, shares her perspective on the growing challenges facing students and educators—especially when it comes to federal student aid and access to global opportunities.

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A Re-Engagement Strategy for Administrators

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A Re-Engagement Strategy for Administrators Elizabeth Redden Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM Ivan Pulinkala describes a new model at Kennesaw State University, where all senior academic administrators make an annual commitment to teaching or research.

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Can I Study Abroad and Intern Abroad at the Same Time? 

AIFS Abroad

Many college students wonder whether it’s possible to study and intern abroad at the same time. The answer is yes, you can—and it’s a great way to advance your degree and build your resume simultaneously! AIFS Abroad offers a range of Study + Internship programs around the world that combine both experiences. What is a Study + Internship Program?

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What to a Political Science Teacher Is July 4?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What to a Political Science Teacher Is July 4? Elizabeth Redden Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM A course on the contested meanings of the Declaration of Independence has never been more relevant—or more politically precarious, Jeffrey C. Isaac writes. Byline(s) Jeffrey C.

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Plugging the Gap: How One College Is Reducing Course Failures

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Plugging the Gap: How One College Is Reducing Course Failures Ashley Mowreader Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM Through course redesign, embedded TAs and a culture of experimentation, the University of the Pacific is seeing returns on first-year attrition.

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How 340B Pharmacies Can Help Higher Ed

University Business

Last month (May), health and wellness colleagues gathered at the American College Health Association Annual Meeting to hear about new approaches to help serve students’ mental and physical well-being. My pharmacy, HigherEdRx , attended because we wanted to shine a spotlight on a transformative opportunity for institutions – one that can help curb the spread of HIV among college students while significantly boosting funding for college and university health centers.

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USF Ditches Search Firm That Helped U of Florida Pick Ono

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The University of South Florida has dropped SP&A Executive Search as the firm leading its presidential search, The Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday.

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Welcome to the July Hot Topic: Navigating Complexity Through Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching

Teaching Matters Student Employment

AI-generated image Welcome to the July’s Hot Topic: Navigating complexity through interdisciplinary learning and teaching Universities today stand at a crossroads; they are caught between tradition and transformation. As we confront rapid societal shifts, technological advancements, and increasingly complex global challenges, how can higher education evolve to remain relevant, impactful, and empowering for students?

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Lawmakers Confront Columbia President About Old Messages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, apologized Wednesday for writing messages in 2023 and 2024 that House Republicans say “appear to downplay and even mock the pervasive culture of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus,” Jewish Insider reported.

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Lead With A Story: Why Real Connection Starts With You

The Humphrey Group

Learn how storytelling in leadership builds trust, strengthens communication skills, and inspires authentic connection.

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The Law of Least Effort: Why Billionaires—and Elite Universities—Prefer Stale Ideas Over Bold Thinking

Higher Education Inquirer

In the modern mythology of Silicon Valley and the Ivy League, billionaires and elite universities are imagined as bold visionaries, pushing humanity forward with daring innovation and world-changing ideas. But scratch the surface of this mythology and what you’ll often find instead is a kind of intellectual laziness —a preference for warmed-over ideas from mid-century science fiction, recycled neoliberal dogma, and technological determinism masquerading as insight.

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New Presidents: Bronx CC, Colorado College, Olin, TCU, Bethune-Cookman and More

Confessions of a Community College Dean

New Presidents: Bronx CC, Colorado College, Olin, TCU, Bethune-Cookman and More Susan H. Greenberg Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Susan H.

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Student Spotlight: Brett’s Spring Semester in Granada, Spain 

AIFS Abroad

Eager to follow in the footsteps of a college student who studied abroad in Spain ? We recently caught up with Brett from Flagler College, who did a study abroad program in the majestic city of Granada during the spring semester. Discover how Brett’s experience with AIFS Abroad helped him expand his academic perspective and travel across Europe! Choosing a Study Abroad Destination & Term Choosing a study abroad destination and term can be a challenge because there are so many amazing options

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Layoffs at Stanford, University of Oregon, Michigan State, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Higher Education Inquirer

In recent weeks, several prominent institutions of higher education—including Stanford University, the University of Oregon, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Harvard Kennedy School—have enacted rounds of layoffs, signaling broader structural challenges in the U.S. academic and healthcare sectors. Despite their elite reputations, substantial endowments, and billions in annual revenue, these institutions are shedding jobs, restructuring departments, and quietly

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CCS Student Selected for Prestigious Television Academy Internship in Hollywood

College for Creative Study

CCS Fashion Design student Maxwell Honeycutt has been selected for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation Internship Program. He is one of 40 students chosen by Television Academy members from across the country for the 2025 Summer Internship program. The Foundation offers paid internships at top Hollywood studios and production companies annually to college students nationwide.

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So Much Fun, Just Hours Away from Cusco

ISA Journal

Rachel Fisher is a student at Eureka College and a Featured Photo Blogger. She is studying with ISA in Cusco, Peru. When I was looking at all the study abroad locations ISA offered, I quickly settled on Cusco, Perú, because it offered so much variation within a few hours of the city.

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WATCH LIVE: House Minority Leader Jeffries giving marathon speech criticizing GOP tax cut bill (PBS News Hour)

Higher Education Inquirer

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gives a marathon speech, calling out the destructive path that House Republicans are going down. This is a Bill that undermines the United States of America and its national security. It is also a threat to democracy. Folks should listen to every minute of this historical speech.

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Alumna Elizabeth Salonen Creates Large-Scale Works for Bernhardt Design’s NeoCon Showroom

College for Creative Study

CCS alumna Elizabeth Salonen made waves at NeoCon 2025, partnering with Bernhardt Design to create a captivating experience in their showroom, Space 320 at The Mart. Salonen, a distinguished multidisciplinary artist-designer, has unveiled “Meditations on Canvas,” a series of seven meticulously hand-stitched large-scale works that truly embody her unique Finnish design ethos: functional beauty intertwined with a deep connection to materiality.

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“The Payback”: Kashana Cauley’s Fictional Rebellion Echoes a Real-Life Debt Hero

Higher Education Inquirer

Kashana Cauley’s second novel, The Payback (out July 15, 2025), might read like a brilliantly absurd heist movie—but its critique of debt peonage, surveillance capitalism, and broken educational promises is dead serious. With its hilarious yet harrowing depiction of three underemployed retail workers taking on the student loan-industrial complex, The Payback arrives not just as a much-anticipated literary event, but as a cultural reckoning.

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Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Nobelist: U.S. Scientists Took Support ‘For Granted’ Before Trump Cuts Susan H. Greenberg Thu, 07/03/2025 - 03:00 AM Frances Arnold, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, says U.S. science is “paying the price” for not explaining the benefits of research funding for “far too long.

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Project 1775, Project 2025, and the Promise of Project 2026: A Call for Revolutionary Hope in American Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

In a fiery and prophetic address, the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries invoked the memory of America’s original struggle for freedom, branding the tyranny of King George III in the years before the American Revolution as “Project 1775.” With bold clarity, he drew a straight line from that era of oppression to today’s rising authoritarianism—what he identified as “Donald Trump’s Project 2025” and the accompanying Trump Spending Bill.

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Trump Admin. Reportedly Restores Federal Funding to Penn

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After the University of Pennsylvania agreed to strip a trans athlete’s awards and comply with the Trump administration’s other demands, the Education Department said Wednesday that the university will get its federal funding back, Bloomberg News and

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A House Divided.

Higher Education Inquirer

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words—delivered at a time of profound crisis—speak volumes to the United States of 2025. We are again a nation splintering at its foundations. Not only is the Trump administration’s 2025 spending bill a cruel redistribution of wealth and opportunity, but it is also a calculated assault on national cohesion.