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For the first time, over 25% of the world’s 200 best institutions are led by women

University Business

institutions still lags far behind. Among the top 200 global universities identified by THE in 2024, 51 are now run by women, marking a steady incline over the past five years: 43 in 2022 , 41 in 2021, 39 in 2020 and 34 in 2019 and 2018. Their exit from the world of elite academia means that the U.S.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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TikTok Bans: What does it really mean for your institution?

University Business

Now more than ever, schools should be leaning into their educational missions and taking the long-game approach of implementing digital literacy training to help students operate safely and effectively in their uber-connected world (yes, that’s a technology pun). The post TikTok Bans: What does it really mean for your institution?

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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In June, Harvard University announced a $200 million gift to launch the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, an academic center dedicated to the study of one of humanity’s most pressing threats. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1