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Tech Titans, Ideologues, and the Future of American Higher Education — 2026 Update
This article is an update to our June 2025 Higher Education Inquirer report, Tech Titans, Ideologues, and the Future of […]
January 2, 2026
How Higher Education Inquirer’s 2016 Warnings Played Out, 2016–2025 (Glen McGhee)
In December 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer published a set of 18 predictions warning of an ongoing “U.S. College Meltdown.” […]
January 2, 2026
College Meltdown 2026 (Glen McGhee)
As the United States moves deeper into the 2020s, the College Meltdown is no longer a speculative concept but a structural […]
January 1, 2026
Teaching, AI, and the Longing to Connect
Late yesterday, I logged into LinkedIn and saw that I had been mentioned in a post about AI. This person […]
January 1, 2026
The Year of the AI Agent in Higher Education
Reading Time: 15 minutes Higher education is entering a new era defined by proactive, intelligent digital helpers. Tech leaders such […]
December 31, 2025
Ai in classrooms: A game changer or just hype?
Credit: Pexels / Mikhail Nilov Finally, AI is here, and it’s going to change the landscape of education in classrooms around […]
December 31, 2025
The most-loved children’s library books during the holidays
What do kids read in December and over the holidays? We wanted to know, so we took a look at what children’s […]
December 31, 2025
Voices that drove education debate: EdSource’s most read opinions of 2025
California schools have some of the highest student-to-teacher ratios in the country. Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource In 2025, EdSource […]
December 31, 2025
New Student Loan Wage Garnishments Start January 2026: What You Need to Know
Thank you for subscribing! A significant financial shift is arriving in January 2026. For the millions of Americans with federal […]
December 31, 2025