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Founding brand and agency board members include executives from Giant Group, Mocean, Walton Isaacson, Hawke Media, RPA, Team One, TBWA/Chiat/Day LA, Ogilvy LA, Clique-Now, The MRKT, Mixed Asian Media, IW Group, and Cal State Northridge. -- AdWeek

Late-night television shows—including these hosts’ shows, Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show—were among the first to shut down after the strike began in May. Shortly after, the Screen Actors Guild went on strike, as well, meaning even if late-night television wanted to come back without writers, the shows would likely struggle to book guests as actors are not allowed to promote work they’ve filmed during their strike. The strikes were the results of failed contract negotiations with Hollywood studios after members requested increased compensation, better residuals, staffing requirements and protections from AI job interference, among other demands. The failure to reach an agreement has cost California’s economy an estimated $3 billion as of early August, according to Todd Holmes, a professor at California State University, Northridge. -- Forbes

The first group of schools chosen for our Season of Impact Campus initiative are: American University, Arizona State University, Baruch College, California State University Northridge, Claremont McKenna College, Cornell University, Howard University, Kent State University, Lehigh University, Loyola Marymount University, Reed College, San Francisco State University, Spelman College, Syracuse University, The George Washington University, The Ohio State University, The University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University, Tuskegee University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California Berkeley, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Georgia (UGA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Miami, University of Michigan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, and Washington State University. -- Street Insider

Each year we rank roughly 850 bachelor’s and master’s institutions, as well. Many, like Elizabeth City State University, a historically Black college in North Carolina that ranks second among bachelor’s-granting schools, go unheralded by the prestige measurers even as they quietly graduate thousands of underprivileged students into well-paying jobs. Since 2021, ECSU has climbed 11 places thanks to its incredibly low cost to students and its efforts to enroll Pell recipients and keep them in school, which it does at a rate only 5 percent below the mean. SUNY Geneseo tops our master’s list, ahead of no fewer than seven Cal State campuses in the top 11. The Finger Lakes–area school excels in our research and service metrics, sending an extraordinary number of students on to doctoral degrees and the Peace Corps. Meanwhile, Cal State Northridge, the third-ranked master’s school, graduates more Pell recipients each year—3,779—than the entire Ivy League combined, and charges them about what Cornell and Dartmouth do, while splitting its $203.5 million endowment among 36,000 students and somehow also managing to rank eighth in research spending among its peers. Near the bottom is DeVry University in Ontario. This California campus of the for-profit chain charges an arm and a leg to low-income students—$28,207 a year—who go on to underperform their peers’ incomes by nearly 25 percent, a significant problem with all that tuition to pay off. -- Washington Monthly