The Trump administration has not turned the spotlight away from higher education and especially the Ivy League. Last Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published an analysis showing that Harvard alone could face a shortfall about a billion dollars if all President Trump’s plans and policies come to fruition. How might
The issue of artificial intelligence on college campuses is having a moment. First there was the viral article in New York Magazine last month: “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College.” The New York Times reported on OpenAI (the firm behind ChatGPT)’s push to make AI as much a part
As we have written about before, the value proposition of colleges and universities has been in question for some time. Exacerbated by the antisemitic protests and movements on college campuses, the value proposition’s weakening has come as college costs have risen and voters have increasingly questioned the value of a
Recent surveys have offered contradictory answers as to whether Democrats or Republicans have the advantage on education. In a new analysis for Education Next, we look at why this might be the case and make the case for a bipartisan focus on student outcomes. The confusion about whether Democrats or
In the latest survey for Winning the Issues (June 12-14; 1,000 registered voters) we took another look at the party voters have more confidence in to handle education. Overall, voters prefer the Democratic Party by a margin of 14 (36-50 Republican Party-Democratic Party), little changed from the April survey, when
From the further pulling of federal grants to the executive order that bars students from coming to the US to study at Harvard, the Trump administration has focused more and more of its attention on higher education to the Ivy League institution. As we saw several weeks ago when we