In this CHORUS Forum event, on August 27 at 11:00am ET, Todd Toler will join a panel including Todd Ware, Emilie Delquie, and moderator Paul Sanders, for a discussion on licensing to LLMs. The conversation will include what organizations can expect, what liabilities organizations should be aware of, and how responsible use is defined.
Past Events
Catharine Bond Hill, John B. King, Jr. and David Brooks at the ATI Presidential Summit
How State and Federal Divestment is Resegregating Higher Education
This webinar, hosted by the Alliance for Higher Education, brings together leading scholars and researchers to discuss how recent state and federal policy decisions have affected efforts to expand educational opportunity in higher education. Ithaka S+R’s Dylan Ruediger will join the conversation alongside Laura Hamilton, Jackie Pedota, Kaleb L. Briscoe, Melissa Salazar, Rebecca Perdomo, and Liliana Garces. The session is scheduled for August 27, 2026 at 1pm ET. Register to attend.
Future of Higher Ed (FOHE) Coffee Hour
This panel explored the rapidly changing student-financing landscape, including new federal borrowing limits, Workforce Pell, student loan repayment and default, income-share agreements, and emerging alternatives to traditional education loans. Panelists discussed the implications of these developments for students, states, higher education institutions, policymakers, investors, and workforce-development leaders and considered what a more affordable, equitable, and sustainable student-financing system could look like by 2035.
Rethinking Who Pays for College
Need-Based Aid, Public Funding, and Employer Co-Investment
Developed in partnership with Strada Education Foundation, this session examined how need-based financial aid, state and federal investment, and emerging models of employer co-investment can help close the college affordability gap. Elizabeth Pisacreta presented findings from Ithaka S+R’s research on targeted state financial aid, which produced new insights about how states do (or don’t) direct financial aid to degrees and programs that are aligned with their specific labor market demands.
Academic Libraries Under Pressure
Insights from the US Library Survey 2025
Academic libraries are navigating a period of rapid change as they balance financial pressures, evolving campus priorities, and the growing impact of generative AI. Ithaka S+R’s US Library Survey 2025: Under Pressure offers a timely look at how library deans and directors are responding to these challenges and preparing their organizations for the future. Synthesizing responses from library leaders at four-year, not-for-profit higher education institutions across the US, this research explores strategic priorities, staffing, budgets, student success, collections, and…
Under Pressure
Highlights From the 2025 Library Deans and Directors Survey
As part of the CNI Project Briefing Series, Ellen Carroll and Tracy Bergstrom will explore new findings from Ithaka S+R’s US Library Survey. The 2025 survey cycle examined leaders’ perspectives on the library’s core role, governance, and key dimensions of strategy and operations while expanding the scope of inquiry to include emerging areas of influence, including generative artificial intelligence (AI), developments in the scholarly communication ecosystem, and change management.
Improving Accessibility and Disability Services in Higher Education in Prison
At the Correctional Education Association National Conference, Tammy Ortiz will join a panel with Jen Montag (National Center for College Students with Disabilities) Ben Wright (The Community), Dominic Winter (Washington State Department of Corrections), Dan McGloin (University of Maine Prison Education Program) on improving accessibility and disability services in higher education in prison. This panel will include experts within the community who will share their insights on the current landscape of disability services for incarcerated students, and will provide participants…
Different Contexts, Same Challenge
Building Momentum for Holistic Credit Mobility
This session at the SHEEO Higher Education Policy Conference will draw on the work of the national Holistic Credit Mobility Acceleration Cohort, a year-long community of practice developed in partnership between Ithaka S+R and Complete College America with support from Ascendium Education Group, to examine what it actually takes to move from fragmentation to momentum at scale. Grounded in the Holistic Credit Mobility Framework first published by Ithaka S+R in 2022 and advanced through a 2025 case study report…
From Strategy to Scale
Leading AI Transformation in Online Higher Education
At the Summit for Online Leadership and Administration Conference, Claire Baytas will speak as part of a panel on AI’s impact across the student lifecycle—from enrollment to student success, instructional design, and instructional operations—and strategic choices senior leaders should be making to position their institutions well with regard to AI.
Digging into the Data
Ithaka S+R’s 2025 US Library Directors Survey
In November 2025, Ithaka S+R fielded the most recent version of the US Library Survey. In an event hosted by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), Lauren Pressley, Dean of ZSR Library at Wake Forest University, will moderate a conversation with Tracy Bergstrom (Senior Program Manager) and Ellen Carroll (Senior Analyst) on the results of the survey. Join to hear about the important lessons gained from this survey, with time for questions and answers.
Supporting Basic Needs Through Library Partnerships
Join Ithaka S+R for a webinar highlighting key findings from the Maximizing Public-Academic Library Partnerships project. We will explore how community college and public library partnerships can support basic needs initiatives and share lessons from our national research, case studies, policy analysis, and partnership framework. Attendees will gain insights into how community college and public libraries are supporting basic needs initiatives, what partnership models are being used across the country, and what lessons emerged from Ithaka S+R multi-year research.
Who Owns AI Literacy?
Building a Whole-Campus Approach
Ruby MacDougall will share a presentation on building a whole-campus approach to AI literacy at the AI Literacy + Learning for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) Summit at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The in-person convening is scheduled to take place on July 21-22, 2026.
Sick of Credit Mobility Systems That Don’t Talk? Join a Movement in the Making!
This interactive session with the Credit Mobility Technology Collaboration and Interoperability Partnership—which includes members such as AACRAO, NASH, Arizona State University, ITHAKA Transfer Explorer, and the AI Transfer and Articulation Infrastructure Network—will explore and co-develop solutions for interoperability and data standards. The session is scheduled for July 19 in Arlington, Virginia.
Improving Legal Information Services for Incarcerated Patrons
Shifting institutional policies, communication restrictions, and shrinking budgets continue to limit access to legal information for incarcerated individuals and create confusion for those providing services from the outside. What does meaningful access look like in today’s carceral settings, and what legal information is most needed? How can law librarians navigate these constraints to deliver effective services? This panel at the AALL 2026 Conference will explore the current state of legal information services to incarcerated patrons and how law libraries…
Financing Program Sustainability and Scale
A Conversation with CUNY ASAP Replication Partners
At the Student Financial Aid Research Network 2026 Conference, Bethany Lewis and Ioana Hulbert will highlight findings from a forthcoming playbook on financing student success program sustainability and scaling, featuring case studies with both ASAP and non-ASAP programs. Diana Strumbos will then moderate a panel with leaders from three ASAP replication sites to discuss the opportunities and challenges they have faced in their pursuit of on-going funding and how systems and states may strategically design programs to maximize possible funding…
Understanding How Academic Libraries in the United States Navigate Uncertain Times
Results from Ithaka S+R’s 2025 US Library Deans and Directors Survey
At the Association of European Research Libraries annual conference, Ithaka S+R’s Tracy Bergstrom and Ellen Carroll will share key findings from Ithaka S+R’s 2025 US Library Deans and Directors Survey, with a particular focus on evolving perceptions of the core values that underpin academic libraries and the changing nature of library work. Since its inception in 2010, this triennial online survey has provided foundational data on both longstanding and emerging priorities for library leaders. Each cycle offers longitudinal insights…
Bridging the Legal Information Gap in Prisons
A Dialogue Between Librarians and Jailhouse Lawyers
For individuals who are incarcerated, accessing legal documents and information is often difficult, if not impossible. While law libraries located in facilities and tablets that provide access to Westlaw and LexisNexis are typically the first stop, these resources are limited. When materials are unavailable—or when navigating them requires additional expertise—individuals who are incarcerated often turn to law librarians in state, academic, and county libraries for assistance. Providing this support, however, is far from straightforward. Correctional policies and security restrictions often…
Adequate Access
The Role of the Law Library in Serving System Impacted Communities
At the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Tammy Ortiz will present a poster on an Ithaka S+R project focusing on the role of the law library for system impacted communities. The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. For individuals impacted by the legal system, access to the law is of critical importance. A series of Supreme Court rulings, notably Bounds vs. Smith (1977) and Lewis vs. Casey (1996), established a limited…
Exploring Online Enrollment Trends in the Era of State Authorization Reciprocity
At the Midwestern Higher Education Compact M-SARA Annual Meeting, Ini Umosen will present findings from Ithaka S+R’s recent reports related to State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA), “Exploring Online Enrollment Trends in the Era of State Authorization Reciprocity” and “Examining Employers’ Perceptions of Online Credentials: A Discrete Choice Experiment.” The session is scheduled for June 25, 2026.
Research Communities
The Role of the Research Enterprise in Student Success and Society
At the ConnectUR 2026 Annual Conference, Ithaka S+R’s Chelsea McCracken will present on current and past projects that relate to undergraduate research, including a workshop on sustaining open source software in the research enterprise, a recent researcher survey, and a project on open source program offices on university campuses. The session will include time for a Q&A session on topics attendees think would be most helpful to the undergraduate research community.