An Inside Higher Ed analysis found at least 16 nonprofit colleges shut down in 2025 due to falling enrollment and financial strain, following 28 degree-granting institutions that closed in the first nine months of 2024 alone, according to Hechinger Report data. Entrepreneur's coverage argues these closures are not isolated incidents but the culmination of years of compounding pressures — declining tuition revenue, rising costs, debt and accreditation issues.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-04
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a one-year moratorium starting in the 2026-2027 school year that blocks roughly 600,000 students from pre-K through eighth grade from using AI in class, and bars teachers from using AI to grade their work. Companion and mental-support chatbots will be prohibited at all grade levels, individual screens are banned until third grade, and screen time guidance caps middle schoolers at 45 minutes daily. High schoolers will get limited AI access, twice-yearly AI literacy lessons, and a small pilot program testing vetted AI tools in a handful of classrooms.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-02
Jason Arday, professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, resigned on 5 August after facing allegations of research misconduct and what he described as relentless public attack going beyond normal academic criticism. Nine days later, following sustained media coverage of his professional and personal life, he died. Nature's editorial calls for reflection on how universities handle misconduct investigations and how the press covers such cases, particularly given the racism present in much of the coverage.
nature.com
· 2026-09-02
Academa is a new project that treats lecture videos like software: instructors describe what a teacher says and draws using a code-like script, which a compiler then renders into a video with text-to-speech narration and generated graphics. Because the lecture exists as editable source rather than a finished video file, mistakes can be patched and new versions shipped, much like updating a codebase. The team is now applying large language models to this text-based format, aiming to let AI generate or refine entire STEM lectures automatically.
academa.ai
· 2026-08-30
An MIT committee co-chaired by professors Eric Klopfer and Samuel Madden released a report finding that AI models can now produce credible answers to nearly any undergraduate assignment, including essays, math and science problems, proofs, and coding tasks. The report warns this capability is already reshaping campus life, citing drops in office-hour attendance, online discussion participation, and in-person study groups.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-30
Laurie Stach, a 2006 MIT graduate, recalled harboring an early drive to tackle big problems and discovered at MIT that many of her peers shared that same ambition. She argues that while adults praise talented young people in math and science, conventional schooling fails to equip them to act on their ideas now rather than in some distant future.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-08-25
In a new essay, Paul Graham says Y Combinator's decades of experience selecting founders show that the best preparation for startup success is deep technical or creative skill, not a formal entrepreneurship curriculum. He argues universities should keep teaching subjects like computer science, engineering and molecular biology, since founders succeed by building products customers want, not by studying management or finance.
paulgraham.com
· 2026-08-25
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