Welcome to the August edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
- Aug 19
- 3 min read
Inside, you’ll find practical ideas, upcoming events, and quick tips to help you make the most of Adobe tools in today’s evolving higher education landscape. Please forward this to your colleagues and encourage them to subscribe so they don’t miss a thing.
Creativity meets purpose at the University of Central Florida.
Adobe Education Institute trainer Matt Dombrowski shows what happens when creativity, tech, and social impact come together.
Through UCF's School of Visual Arts and Design and the nonprofit Limbitless Solutions, Matt uses Adobe Creative Cloud to help students turn ideas into stories that matter. His take: Everyone is creative — the right tools just amplify that creativity.
As far as AI goes, Matt believes less in feature-chasing and more in critical thinking. That's why students from engineering, healthcare, marketing, and design have teamed up at Limbitless to build personalized bionic arms for kids. And they're using Adobe tools to facilitate a shared creative language.
To see Matt in action, register to watch these Adobe Education Institute sessions on demand:
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Live webinar: Digital Storytelling and Writing Innovation at SUNY ESF
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
8am PT | 9am MT | 10am CT | 11am ET | 4pm BST | 5pm CET
See how SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry brings Adobe creative tools into its Environmental Writing Program and Digital Storytelling Studio.
The college is turning student assignments into podcasts, video stories, and multimedia essays that reach audiences far beyond the classroom.
Walk away with practical strategies and real examples for bringing digital storytelling into your own writing-intensive courses.
Can't make it? Register anyway to access the recording.
See how Weber State is fostering critical thinking in the age of AI.
As AI makes it easier for students to skip the thinking process, Weber State faculty have shifted focus from final products to the learning process. They've reimagined assessments, assigned podcasts and digital portfolios, and made the most of Adobe Express Learning Kits via Canvas Commons.
Adobe and the Chronicle of Higher Education hosted a webinar to explore the institution's process and results.
Missed it live? Check out the recording of Making Student Thinking Visible: How Weber State University is Solving the Critical Thinking Gap.
Build your fall syllabus fast.
Adobe Express Learning Kits are ready-to-use teaching bundles for seven common assignment types: multimodal reports and essays, career-skills portfolios, infographics, research posters, presentations, explainer videos, and podcasts.
Each kit includes a prompt, a rubric, and tutorial videos so you can drop it straight into your curriculum.
Apply styles.
Transform your designs with predefined color and font combinations.
Use Styles to customize templates or create designs that align with your brand identity.
Use Click Order in presentations.
Control when and how animations, video, and audio appear and play. Reveal the right content at the right moment to tell your story with motion on your own terms.
Join our Higher Education Faculty Community.
Connect with faculty and staff worldwide who are tackling the same challenges you are. Trade ideas that are actually working. Bring real resources back to your campus. Move faster on the instructional innovation that's hard to build alone.
Take control of Creative Cloud project retention.
New settings are available through Adobe Admin APIs for storage management.Now you can set content retention policies for Creative Cloud projects stored in your institution's Adobe cloud storage. Define exactly how long completed projects stick around before they're permanently deleted.
With work-in-progress (WIP) content retention, admins can:
Create one or more retention policies for WIP content across your org.
Adjust anytime. Extend or shorten retention periods. Changes apply to all active projects from their original start date.
Delete a policy to stop enforcement immediately, without deleting any projects.
Set precedence when multiple policies overlap. The earliest retention date wins.
Explore the latest features across your favorite Adobe tools.
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The Adobe North America Higher Education team
