Welcome to the May edition of the Adobe Higher Education newsletter!
- May 13
- 4 min read
Dive in for actionable ideas, upcoming events, and tips and tricks designed to empower your work in today's evolving higher education landscape.
Adobe Education Institute kicks off June 8. Don’t forget to register — even if you can’t attend live!
Join free, virtual, hands-on sessions created for higher ed faculty, academic leaders, and professional staff.
Ready to level up your digital toolkit? The Adobe Education Institute (AEI) is an interactive learning experience built specifically to help higher education teams move faster, work smarter, and support students and colleagues with confidence.
No matter your role, AEI delivers practical strategies you can use immediately, whether you’re optimizing workflows with Adobe Acrobat or creating engaging, on-brand content in Adobe Express.
You’ll enjoy the event even more if you attend with colleagues! Access promotional assets to share the news with other faculty and staff.
All sessions will be recorded and sent to registrants, so please sign up even if you can’t join us live.
Adobe Express has a new look.
You might have noticed that the look of Adobe Express has changed. We’re excited to share some fantastic updates to the Adobe Express experience — all designed with simplicity and speed in mind.
Based on customer feedback, we've streamlined the interface to help you create faster and with less friction. The navigation has been decluttered, search is now front and center, Action Cards have been redesigned for clarity, and templates are easier to browse. These changes reflect a cleaner foundation we'll continue to build on, so the best is still to come. See what’s changed and why.
We’d love to hear what you think. To provide feedback and offer suggestions from within Adobe Express, click the flask icon on the home page.
Do you have students who are graduating or moving on?
Give your students and recent graduates a smooth send-off with their work in hand. They can quickly copy Adobe files from school-assigned accounts to new or existing personal Adobe accounts using the Student File Transfer feature. This will ensure that they have access to their projects and portfolios to share with future employers.
Want to spread the word? Learn more about the feature, and use our ready-to-send email templates to let students know about this valuable benefit.
Concerned about PDF accessibility at your institution?
Our API, brought to you in partnership with The Ohio State University Libraries, Arizona State University Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Center, and Amazon Web Services, makes it easy to scale PDF accessibility. Auto-tag content more accurately with the API and ensure that every document is easy to navigate when accessed with screen readers and other reading devices.
Key benefits include improving accessibility of PDF backlogs, remediating PDFs at scale, and moving toward compliance with greater ease.
Adobe Acrobat Pro accessibility resources
Upcoming event: Collaborating Smarter with Adobe PDF Spaces
Marshall University will host this session in person, with a virtual option open to all Adobe Creative Campuses. The session will include a sneak peek of Student Spaces, featuring members of the Acrobat team who'll share a brief overview and demo.
📅Date: May 13
🖥️Virtual access: Lunch and Learn: Collaborating Smarter with Adobe PDF Spaces
Collaborating Smarter with Adobe PDF Spaces
What to expect: This session will spotlight Marshall University’s partnership with Adobe and the innovative ways the institution is using PDF Spaces to enhance teaching, learning, and academic collaboration. We’ll explore real examples, from curriculum development and shared review workflows to interactive feedback and improved access to course content. You’ll also see how AI-supported workflows are helping reduce version confusion and streamline collaboration.
To round things out, we’ll offer a preview of Student Spaces, including a short demo that highlights how student-centered collaboration is evolving within Acrobat.
Thursday, May 27 / Friday, May 28, 2026 — Adobe Academic Innovation Café
Growing Student Success through Story, Identity, and Design at Western Sydney University
9pm PT (May 27) | 12am ET (May 28)
Get an inside look at how Western Sydney University is redesigning the first-year experience using reflection, identity-building, and digital storytelling.
Leave with practical ideas and a ready-to-use learning module you can adapt to spark student-centered innovation on your campus.
Can't make it? Register anyway to receive access to the recording.
Join our brand-new Higher Education Faculty Community.
Connect with higher education peers around the world, collaborate on ideas and resources you can bring back to your campus, and accelerate instructional innovation with a network that helps you try new approaches faster and with more support.
Adobe Express feature spotlight
Create images with AI.
Get step-by-step help using generative AI to create and edit images in Adobe Express and see how to download and use those images in your work.
Generate similar images
Find out how to create a new image using the style of an existing image with the Generate Similar feature.
Create social media clips.
Learn how to turn long-form videos into engaging short clips for social media with the Clip Maker feature.
Explore the latest features across your favorite Adobe tools.
Useful resources
Newsletter Archives
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 regards,
The Adobe North America Higher Education team
