From diploma dividend to early-career drag: why this moment matters and what this roundup probes Graduation used to be a launchpad that practically guaranteed momentum, yet today the runway looks crowded and the lift takes longer to arrive for many new degree holders. A chorus of voices—from labor
Ethan, thanks for having me. I’ve spent the post-pandemic years helping presidents and boards redesign programs, budgets, and digital delivery under mounting financial and demographic strain. The big themes we’ll unpack today are unmistakable: closures cluster where tuition dependence is high and
Across kitchens, offices, and crèches, a simple truth has been repeatedly borne out: when care is treated as a private matter, families pay more, women step back from work, and early years educators shoulder low wages for indispensable labor, yet Ireland still organizes early childhood education
A Court-Ordered Reset In The Campus Antisemitism Enforcement Fight Across campuses gripped by protest, policy, and politics, one federal ruling jolted compliance playbooks nationwide by halting a sweeping funding cutoff and forcing agencies back inside the guardrails Congress built into Title VI
A sweeping revision to a marquee student debt relief program arrived with a provocative premise: the government will continue to forgive loans for public servants, but it will draw a sharper line around which employers count as public service. The Education Department issued a final rule that
Record-breaking headlines promised a windfall for classrooms when Michigan set per‑pupil funding at roughly $10,050, yet the balance sheets carried by superintendents told a far messier story in which rising obligations and redirected dollars diluted that celebrated figure into something far
