Dr. Farah Bennani, Dean of Math, Science, and Engineering at Elgin Community College, shares her insights on advancing education, fostering critical thinking, and the transformative role of AI in learning.

According to the recently released Tyton Partners’ report, Driving Towards a Degree, career readiness is now the clearest measure of higher education’s value in the United States.

Higher education faces a pivotal moment. The question now facing every college and university isn’t “are our students graduating,” it’s “are our graduates getting hired?”

As the cost of higher education continues to rise, institutions that implement Affordable Access Programs save students money while improving academic preparedness and success.

As AI rapidly transforms the job market, schools are under growing pressure to prepare students for careers in fields that are emerging or may not yet exist.