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How America Built the World’s University System
How ambition, innovation, and openness made U.S. higher education the world’s most powerful system.
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Higher Ed Insights - December 26th, 2025
As the year wraps up, the rules of global mobility are quietly being rewritten — from immigration caps to campus priorities.
Dec 26, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - December 17th, 2025
This week’s developments remind us that where students study, work, and settle is increasingly shaped by decisions far beyond the classroom.
Dec 17, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - November 28th, 2025
This week, we’re doing a deep dive into the wild, shifting world of global mobility — where visas tighten, borders wobble, and talent quietly redraws…
Nov 28, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - November 4th, 2025
Silicon Valley’s short on engineers, H-1B spouses just lost their work-permit safety net, and now Washington’s telling universities to behave if they…
Nov 4, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - October 10th, 2025
From dips in U.S. student visas to Australia opening doors and UK universities landing in India, here’s the latest global higher ed buzz you don’t want…
Oct 10, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - Sept 30th, 2025
Professors are fleeing Southern campuses, the $100K H-1B rule is shaking up talent, and the Supreme Court may be rewriting American education.
Sep 30, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - September 3rd, 2025
The Ivies reveal who made the cut for the Class of 2029, DHS toys with putting an expiration date on your student life, and one Texas university gets a…
Sep 3, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - August 26th, 2025
U.S. campuses are packed with record enrollments, Harvard is bending to Trump-era pressures, and Canada’s visa freeze is leaving Indian students out in…
Aug 26, 2025
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Higher Ed Insights - August 22nd, 2025
College just got a little more complicated: loan delinquencies are spiking, Google wants to be your AI professor, and Senator Rubio just yanked 6,000…
Aug 22, 2025
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Step back to explore the history, geopolitics, and long-term forces that shape the present. We dig deep to find out why—and how past decisions continue to shape today’s debates and tomorrow’s outcomes.
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