As universities increasingly adopt digital tools and automated analytics systems, attention often centers on these tools' ...

Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students ...

AI expert and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy recently declared on X that “the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments),” and I couldn’t agree more. The ...

It’s time for Harvard students to say goodbye to their straight-A’s. On Friday, a committee of faculty advised the school to ...

Harvard committee proposes capping A grades at 20% per class starting 2026-27 to combat grade inflation that has seen over 60 ...

More students are seeking a two-year degree or shorter-term credential over a four-year college, recent studies show. The growing interest in alternatives to a four-year degree program has been dubbed ...

A 2025 survey found that more than 75% of students who responded are using AI tools to assist with their homework, with 24% doing so daily, signaling a major shift in academic practices. For higher ...

The Department of Education is taking its next major step toward overhauling the college accreditation system, inviting higher ed policy experts to suggest nominees for an upcoming negotiating ...

A new national coalition, the Alliance for Higher Education, announced its launch Tuesday, promising to defend higher education from government interference. The nonprofit’s mission is to protect ...

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as ...

A Harvard faculty committee has recommended capping the number of A grades that can be assigned in undergraduate classes to 20%, plus up to four additional A’s per class.

Still images from the advertising campaign “College: Proud Sponsor of America at Its Best,” meant to improve public perceptions of higher education after a decade of declining confidence and a year of ...