Welcome to the June edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
- Jun 12
- 3 min read
Read on for learning opportunities and resources designed to help you boost your creativity, productivity, and impact on campus.
LAST CALL! Adobe Institute kicks off in 5 days. Register now, even if you can't attend live.
Join us for free, virtual, hands-on sessions built for higher ed faculty, academic leaders, and professional staff.
June 8 is right around the corner — register now to secure your spot for the Adobe Education Institute (AEI), an interactive learning experience designed to help higher education teams move faster, work smarter, and show up for students with confidence.
Whatever you teach, support, lead, or manage, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can put to work right away — like streamlining everyday tasks in Adobe Acrobat or creating engaging, on-brand content in Adobe Express.
Bring a colleague (or your whole team) and learn together. Click here for promotional assets to forward to other faculty and staff.
Can’t attend live? Be sure to register anyway — every session will be recorded and sent to registrants, so you won’t miss a thing.
Class is out. Skills are in!
Summer is the season for stretching new creative muscles. Whether you want to refresh assignments before fall, you need polished campus comms, or your admin team is struggling with stacks of documents, the picks below offer something for every role — many are free, most are self-paced, and all are worth a few summer hours. We have curated suggestions for Adobe Express, PDF Spaces, and Adobe Creative Cloud Pro. See our suggestions.
Most of these are accessed through LinkedIn Learning or Coursera subscriptions. Adobe-hosted sessions are free for everyone at Adobe partner institutions.
A few planning tips for summer skill-building:
Block 30–60 minutes on the calendar. Short, scheduled bursts beat “I'll get to it” every time.
Pair up with a partner. Going through Adobe Express or PDF Spaces together means you'll both walk away ready to start fall in high gear.
Save the AEI Labs page. Adobe adds new live higher ed sessions every month.
Do you have students who are graduating or moving on?
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Spread the word → Get the full feature overview and grab ready-to-send email templates so no student walks across the stage and leaves their best work behind.
Free webinar on June 10: Building a Campus AI Strategy
Most institutions have moved past "Should we use AI?" and are figuring out how to build a strategy that actually works across departments, faculty, and leadership
Join Jeff Selingo and other higher ed leaders on June 10 (2pm ET / 11am PT, between two of our AEI sessions) for a free virtual session on practical frameworks for campus-wide AI. They'll cover AI governance, digital literacy, and preparing students for an AI-driven workforce.
Join our Higher Education Faculty Community.
The best ideas in higher ed seldom come from a single campus — they come when you're comparing notes with faculty facing the same challenges a continent away. Join your peers in our new community to trade tips about what's actually working, gather resources to bring back to your campus, and move faster on instructional innovations that can make a big difference.
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Our new newsletter hub includes our latest edition along with past issues. Add the following link to your institution’s Adobe website to keep everyone up to date.
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Thanks for reading! We’d love to hear your thoughts on how we can improve future editions.
Best,
The Adobe North America Higher Education Team
