Representative Virginia Foxx is a blunt partisan. But her life in rural North Carolina informs her attacks against these schools, starting with whether Harvard is truly “elite.”

Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, will speak to the same congressional committee before which the Harvard and University of Pennsylvania presidents stumbled.

Sheri Everts’ tenure as chancellor brought a decade of “growth and momentum” to the Boone university, but was not without controversy.

Read more in Dean’s List, The N&O’s weekly higher ed news roundup, about a UNC leader’s testimony to Congress on this year’s botched FAFSA process.

Better outcomes often have less to do with prestige and more to do with fields of study.

Amid FAFSA delays, a growing number of colleges and universities have postponed their enrollment deadlines for students waiting on award letters.

Many institutions are not yet prepared to help their faculty members and students navigate artificial intelligence. That’s just one of multiple findings from Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey of chief academic officers. In the latest annual survey by Inside Higher Ed, participating provosts said the vast majority of their institutions have not yet published policies governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI), even as its power and disruptive potential increase. And most institutions haven’t reviewed curriculum to ensure it will prepare students for AI’s rise in the workplace.

Stop agonizing about your syllabus policy and start helping students use AI to extend, not replace, their thinking.