Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a Kaplan survey found that while 67% of MBA programs have waived their admissions exam requirement, often the GMAT, during COVID, 88% of those institutions still claim that submitting a competitive score will indeed help the student’s chances for admission.

Reported by EdSurge, while we’ve seen the promise of disruption for years, with competency-based education, MOOCs, open badging and more, the bachelor’s degree still sets atop the leaderboard as the broad credentialing standard.

Reported by EdSurge, The Catherine Project gives us a small preview. Largely organized by college professors for free, and meeting with adults to discuss works of literature and philosophy, this is an attempt to reclaim a liberal arts learning the modern academy doesn’t seem to as deeply believe in anymore.

Reported by Campus Technology, the latest college phishing scam is using a promise of COVID updates and communications to gain access to college network login credentials. And in some of these instances, the scammers have also created mock multi-factor authentication sites to also gain secondary identification information from university users.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans delivers $20 million in college scholarships every year. The change they made this year? Awarding them a year earlier, to high school juniors.

Reported by EdSurge, the edtech company Byju’s has raised $4.5 billion in investment capital over the last decade, and is using part of that funding to invest in moonshots through its Byju’s Lab.

Reported by Government Technology, Google has designed an AI Tutor Platform designed specifically to uplevel the feedback in online courses, through personalized feedback, assessments, and guidance.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while the speed of Google’s education growth is remarkable, what may be even more so is Google’s commitment to treating these certificate completers as equivalent to four-year degree completers.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the length of presidential tenure is shortening, with some very notable presidential hires in the last several years that didn’t even make it to the 2 year mark.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a devastating survey from ECMC Group suggests that fewer than half of all teens currently plan on pursuing a four-year college pathway, from 71 percent in May 2020 all the way down to 48 percent today.