"Songs to Listen to in the Wendy's Parking Lot" released on Sept. 23. Here's how to listen to the fast-food chain's new emo album.

I’m going to apologize for the length of this essay ahead of time, but it’s wild that in 2026 a serious and smart group of sociologists continue to signal that classical texts written over a centur…

Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global ...

The community college issued layoff notices to all of its part-time and full-time counselors, citing budget concerns and possible plans to outsource services. Delaware County Community College shocked faculty and staff when it warned its entire counseling department of layoffs set to take effect this summer. College leaders argue they need the cuts to shrink a budget gap, but counselors are fighting for their jobs, arguing their services can’t be outsourced.

New borrowing caps may curb college costs, but high tuition still makes it harder to become a teacher, nurse or doctor.

Some don’t see a future in a sector battling for its very existence.

At the highest level, the U.S. government looks like a gerontocracy, with average ages around 60 in both the House and the Senate.

Officials at the system’s Fort Collins and Pueblo campuses trimmed millions of dollars from their budgets as the state left higher education funding flat.

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.

Debt and an enrollment crisis sunk Hampshire College. Is it a canary in the coal mine for higher ed?

Penn State University could slash 12% of its undergraduate academic programs this fall if school leaders follow through with preliminary recommendations...

Colleges made or announced moves to cut hundreds of jobs and programs in March. Cuts were driven by financial constraints, federal policy fallout and low program enrollment. The need to tighten purse strings and enrollment issues drove plans in March to cut hundreds of jobs and programs.

A data-driven autopsy of higher education's great unraveling. 🎓 What Is This? The higher education landscape is shifting — fast. Rising costs. Falling enrollments. Shifting value. It’s a perfect storm, and some universities won’t survive it. The University Deathpool is your data-driven look into which schools are at risk, which

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Other sticking points for journalists at the investigative nonprofit included demands for wage increases and layoff protections.

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A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own