"We all kind of just assumed that what was tradition was regulation." @MelikPeter of @unityonsocial on the slow realization that changed how he runs a college: "If you cannot be like them, you shouldn't act like them." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

First you explore, building the knowledge. Then you exploit it, on your own and with AI. @jselingo's question for higher ed: "How do we know when a student has gotten over that hump?" futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Ten years ago, @unityonsocial had about 700 students. Today it has more than 10,000. @MelikPeter on why too many colleges serve their employees more than their students, and taking Unity apart. New Future U with @jselingo and @michaelbhorn. 🎧 futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

MIT's former president Rafael Reif, to @hilarysburns of @BostonGlobe: "Are we forgetting what basic research has done for our economy?" She says the administration is walking away from basic research and investing in applied and AI instead. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

When Yale announced a task force on the public's disillusionment with college, @michaelbhorn rolled his eyes. Then he read the report. On why judgment needs knowledge, and the last time university presidents reshaped K-12. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Jeff: there's endless negativity about higher ed, and yet everyone he meets is still clamoring to get into college. What are we missing? @jaycaspiankang of @NewYorker: the negativity IS the competition talking. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

International enrollment, from both reporters: @hilarysburns: "It doesn't look great, especially at the graduate level." Undergrad holding steady so far. @jaycaspiankang: politics change, and students will fluctuate in and out. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Discernment. Problem solving in ambiguity. Networking. Negotiation. Getting things done. @jselingo on what employers want from new grads, and why @Cornell's new report read to him like an admission that colleges haven't been delivering it. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Employers to colleges: tell us what you need now, because long term nobody knows. @hilarysburns of @BostonGlobe: "So let's think shorter term and quicker. Which is hard for higher ed. That's not in their DNA to move like that, but they need to." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

International students. Federal research. Grad loans. The demographic cliff. All at once. @jselingo: "No governance structure in higher education is built for that. It's barely built to deal with one of these at one time." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Jeff: there's endless negativity about higher ed, and yet everyone he meets is still clamoring to get into college. What are we missing? @jaycaspiankang of @NewYorker: the negativity IS the competition talking. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

A $3 billion gift to @CarnegieMellon, $2 billion of it for Florida. @VanderbiltU and @Northeastern there too. @nyuniversity went global years ago. @michaelbhorn and @jselingo on why location matters more, not less, in the age of AI. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

The biggest story higher ed is underreacting to, per @jaycaspiankang of @NewYorker: not the culture war. Oregon halting half-built dorms it can't fill. "This is exactly the profile school that was supposed to be okay." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

The state of higher ed in New England, segment by segment, from @hilarysburns of @BostonGlobe: "Everyone's pretty fragile right now." Even the big endowments. Then there are tiers of how existential the problems get. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

If AI does the easy work, what should students still have to work through themselves? @jselingo on a Seattle dinner with university leaders, and RPI's answer: keep it hard, and build support around the struggle. "It's not a handout, it's a hand up." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

"There's been a huge void in leadership in higher ed the last few years, and everyone's kind of just ducking and hoping someone else will step up." @hilarysburns of @GlobeOpinion: "It's created this huge void that Republicans have been happy to fill." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

Employers have long said new grads aren't prepared. Provosts and presidents said yes, they are. @jselingo read @Cornell's new report on the purpose of the university and saw "a little bit of a nuance in here that maybe employers are right." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

"Many of these towns would be really boring without their little colleges." @hilarysburns of @BostonGlobe agrees with Jay: it's the business questions that are urgent, and "all the warning signs are flashing." futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

For decades the answer to every strategic question in higher ed was: get bigger. @jselingo's new State of Higher Education report asks what happens when the money behind that growth slows or stops. One in seven colleges already lost money. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…

International enrollment, from both reporters: @hilarysburns: "It doesn't look great, especially at the graduate level." Undergrad holding steady so far. @jaycaspiankang: politics change, and students will fluctuate in and out. futureupodcast.com/episodes/…