Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States

AI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations.

AI and education: A watershed moment for MIT

It’s rare that a successful institution has to take a fresh look at many aspects of its mission. But I’m convinced that the opportunities and risks generative AI poses for our model of education and research now constitute such a watershed for MIT – and for all of higher education.

One Million Apprentices, Two Years to Go

Ambitious apprenticeship goals meet slowing growth and limited new funding.

Failure to Measure Learning Is Hurting Higher Education

The public doubts the value of what colleges are providing. That could change if institutions proved that students actually develop the capabilities and skills we promise them.

Now That Workforce Pell Is Here, Colleges Must Quash These Three Myths About Stackable Credentials

Short-term credentials are booming in part because many promise an immediate payoff. The Workforce Pell program that launched this month introduces something else for learners and workers to get excited about: Eligible short-term programs must stack toward a degree.

Borrowed expertise: Why AI’s productivity boom may not survive the generation that built it

The productivity numbers from generative artificial intelligence (AI) are remarkable, and they are real. Across knowledge industries, output per worker is rising in ways that would have been hard to imagine three years ago. The natural conclusion, drawn by many, is that we are at the early stage of a long economic boom, with the gains compounding as adoption deepens.

Getting in the Front Door in the Age of AI: Policies to Help Early-Career Workers

Rachel Lipson discusses how a lot of the AI policy debate uses the China trade shock as a key analogy. But if an AI disruption hits young workers the hardest initially, she worries that looking at manufacturing job loss might not be the right model...

Can America retrain workers before AI leaves them behind?

Success will require investing in employees as seriously as America invests in chips

Will AI Break the University?

Field Notes from a Tough Year

Higher Ed’s Big Restructuring: Adapting to the Era of the Modern Learner

The challenge is not any one force in isolation. Demographic shifts are shrinking the traditional college-going population just as learners of all ages are demanding more affordable, flexible and career-connected pathways. Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills students need and how institutions deliver value—all while sweeping federal policy changes are altering the rules of the game. This report examines the economic, regulatory, technological and demographic forces pushing the sector past mere recalibration of a familiar model.