Higher Education Executives

Your Wiley contract was negotiated for a different era

Jun 29, 2026

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4 min read

Your Wiley contract was negotiated for a different era

11,000 retractions, a 1.4-star courseware rating, and a renewal cycle your institution is not ready for

Higher Education Executives

Syracuse Misses, OBBBA Hits, Google Embeds AI

Jun 26, 2026

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7 min read

Syracuse Misses, OBBBA Hits, Google Embeds AI

The Ecosystem Weekly: Syracuse’s enrollment shortfall, July 1 aid-rule disruption, UIC’s Google AI accelerator, and NSF’s SBIR/STTR restart reshape vendor priorities.

Higher Education Executives

Higher Ed’s Rulebook Is Being Rewritten, Part II

Jun 24, 2026

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7 min read

Higher Ed’s Rulebook Is Being Rewritten, Part II

What changing grant rules, student aid policy, and program economics could mean for research strategy, graduate education, and institutional planning.

Higher Education Executives

Jun 15, 2026

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7 min read

Oracle and NIH Test Old Assumptions

The Ecosystem Weekly: International enrollment weakens, NIH tests grant concentration limits, federal research rules face a review, and a PeopleSoft flaw exposes risks in higher ed's tech backbone

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Harvard, Florida, and NSF Change the Buying Process

Jun 8, 2026

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5 min read

Harvard, Florida, and NSF Change the Buying Process

The Ecosystem Weekly: Harvard centralizes administration, Florida expands state control over curricula, AI governance enters procurement reviews, KBR becomes an $8B research intermediary

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Higher Education Executives

Blackboard’s July Conference Carries Higher Stakes Than It Appears

Jun 3, 2026

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6 min read

Blackboard’s July Conference Carries Higher Stakes Than It Appears

Behind the AI messaging is a much bigger battle over customer retention, market trust, and institutional migration decisions.

Higher Education Executives

Higher Ed's Summer Stress Test Has Begun

Jun 1, 2026

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6 min read

Higher Ed's Summer Stress Test Has Begun

The Ecosystem Weekly: Record FAFSA completion, unresolved graduate loan rules, a $39 million AI renewal at CSU, and emerging federal research funding uncertainty

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Higher Education Executives

May 27, 2026

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7 min read

Chegg Was the Warning

As higher education tightens scrutiny around AI, vendors face a harder question: what makes a product institutionally defensible?

Higher Education Executives

Accreditation reform, SAVE's exit clock, and AI as fundable scope

May 25, 2026

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6 min read

Accreditation reform, SAVE's exit clock, and AI as fundable scope

The Ecosystem Weekly: Four federal shifts this week are turning compliance, repayment, and AI into auditable workflows that reshape higher-ed buying committees

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Higher Education Executives

May 20, 2026

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6 min read

Why D2L’s Rasmussen Deal Matters

Rasmussen University may be an early signal that LMS platforms are evolving into broader operating layers.

Higher Education Executives

Instructure read it and didn't respond. Their higher ed competitors and customers did.

May 19, 2026

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7 min read

Instructure read it and didn't respond. Their higher ed competitors and customers did.

Five targeted intelligence briefs, simultaneously published across all sides of the post-breach LMS market. Here is everything we said.

Adil Husain

Higher Education Executives

May 18, 2026

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5 min read

Canvas Paid a Ransom, MIT Lost $300M

The Ecosystem Weekly: A 20% enrollment drop, AIM negotiations, Canvas fallout, and MIT’s research warning.

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Higher Education Executives

May 13, 2026

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16 min read

Canvas: The Contestability Window

Canvas has been breached twice by the same actor in eight months. The market is open. Here is how long it stays that way, the only move worth making, and where to point the spear.

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Higher Education Executives

May 11, 2026

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8 min read

Canvas, Claude, and Grad PLUS

The Ecosystem Weekly: A finals-week LMS disruption, new graduate borrowing limits, federal AI funding alignment, and AI-mediated grant oversight are changing how institutions evaluate operational risk

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Higher Education Executives

The Instructure Breach Exposed More Than a Security Problem

May 6, 2026

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5 min read

The Instructure Breach Exposed More Than a Security Problem

Institutions are unlikely to abandon Canvas quickly. But repeated incidents change how platforms are evaluated during renewal cycles and expose how much of the EdTech stack now depends on them

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Higher Education Executives

Trump removes NSF oversight as federal aid and research funding tighten simultaneously

May 4, 2026

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5 min read

Trump removes NSF oversight as federal aid and research funding tighten simultaneously

The Ecosystem Weekly: NSF governance is dismantled, STATS ties aid to program earnings, Grad PLUS is eliminated, LMS replacement tilts AI first, and $289M in IES funding risks expiring

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Higher Education Executives

Apr 29, 2026

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3 min read

The Budget Is Being Decided Right Now

Here is what that means for every vendor with a deal in the pipeline.

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Higher Education Executives

Ellucian’s SaaS surge, a new Title IV earnings test, and an NIH review shift

Apr 27, 2026

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6 min read

Ellucian’s SaaS surge, a new Title IV earnings test, and an NIH review shift

The Ecosystem Weekly: A new earnings-based Title IV test, an ADA accessibility delay for public colleges, and NIH’s continued 30–35% discussion rate in peer review all shift how institutions allocate

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Higher Education Executives

Apr 22, 2026

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4 min read

Ellucian and the Economics of Leaving

The company’s true moat is not data or technology. We spell out what it actually is.

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Higher Education Executives

Washington Opens Four New Fronts in Higher Ed Policy

Apr 20, 2026

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6 min read

Washington Opens Four New Fronts in Higher Ed Policy

The Ecosystem Weekly: DOE’s earnings-based aid proposal, the AIM accreditation rewrite, AI grant priorities, and congressional scrutiny of publishing costs

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Higher Education Executives

ETS Is Selling Its Crown Jewels and Buying Into a New Market. What Does That Tell Us?

Apr 17, 2026

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5 min read

ETS Is Selling Its Crown Jewels and Buying Into a New Market. What Does That Tell Us?

The Khan-TED-ETS announcement framed as a challenge to Harvard was clickbait. The key signal is what ETS is doing, why it is doing it now, and what it means for assessment & credentialing vendors.

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Higher Education Executives

The Workday Conversation Your Renewal Team Isn’t In

Apr 15, 2026

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4 min read

The Workday Conversation Your Renewal Team Isn’t In

The Sana acquisition gives Workday account teams a new lever within 650+ universities that already run its HR and finance systems.

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Higher Education Executives

Workday’s Higher Ed Push Meets the Enrollment Cliff

Apr 13, 2026

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7 min read

Workday’s Higher Ed Push Meets the Enrollment Cliff

The Ecosystem Weekly: Funding per student falls, accreditation rules expand federal leverage, Workday strengthens the enterprise platform model, and research cuts force universities to pursue industry

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Higher Education Executives

The Microsoft Copilot Effect on the Higher Ed AI Market

Apr 8, 2026

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7 min read

The Microsoft Copilot Effect on the Higher Ed AI Market

Campuses cannot support dozens of AI tools under tight budgets and compliance pressure. Institutions are increasingly consolidating AI access into enterprise platforms they already operate.

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Higher Education Executives

Apr 6, 2026

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6 min read

Trump’s Budget Targets Federal Programs

The Ecosystem Weekly: Proposed $2.7B funding cut lands, accessibility compliance deadlines arrive, CSU’s AI survey reveals governance gaps, and a federal certification proposal triggers ~22k comments

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Higher Education Executives

Your Wiley contract was negotiated for a different era

Syracuse Misses, OBBBA Hits, Google Embeds AI

Higher Ed’s Rulebook Is Being Rewritten, Part II

Oracle and NIH Test Old Assumptions

Harvard, Florida, and NSF Change the Buying Process

Blackboard’s July Conference Carries Higher Stakes Than It Appears

Higher Ed's Summer Stress Test Has Begun

Chegg Was the Warning

Accreditation reform, SAVE's exit clock, and AI as fundable scope

Why D2L’s Rasmussen Deal Matters

Instructure read it and didn't respond. Their higher ed competitors and customers did.

Canvas Paid a Ransom, MIT Lost $300M

Canvas: The Contestability Window

Canvas, Claude, and Grad PLUS

The Instructure Breach Exposed More Than a Security Problem

Trump removes NSF oversight as federal aid and research funding tighten simultaneously

The Budget Is Being Decided Right Now

Ellucian’s SaaS surge, a new Title IV earnings test, and an NIH review shift

Ellucian and the Economics of Leaving

Washington Opens Four New Fronts in Higher Ed Policy

ETS Is Selling Its Crown Jewels and Buying Into a New Market. What Does That Tell Us?

The Workday Conversation Your Renewal Team Isn’t In

Workday’s Higher Ed Push Meets the Enrollment Cliff

The Microsoft Copilot Effect on the Higher Ed AI Market

Trump’s Budget Targets Federal Programs

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