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From the Trump administration's multimillion dollar pause on the University of Pennyvania's research budget to conservative efforts to raise the endowment tax, weâre rounding up the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.
The University of Michigan has scrapped its multimillion dollar university-wide strategic plan to promote diversity, equity and inclusion amid increasing pressure from the Trump administration on the sector.
Adopting the bill's framework now â "by disclosing foreign funding, establishing robust oversight, and ensuring that no outside power undermines the pursuit of knowledge â can help preserve the free exchange of ideas and innovations that are central to our academic institutions," he said.
AFT alleged the department had âunlawfully shut down access to income-driven repayment plans for student loan borrowersâ and requested a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction forcing it to reopen statutorily required parts of the program.
The financial state of American higher education is more uncertain right now than even in the darkest days of March 2020, and colleges are starting to implement cost-cutting measures in order to avoid having to make even more difficult decisions down the road.
âThe fundamental premise of this is, if you throw a whole bunch of data away, youâre not going to get quality outputs on the other end, whether thatâs a graphic showing the progression of student success and graduation rates for your school or the response to a question about financial aid through a chatbot,â Andriola says.
A: I now have to work with my mentors to generate a new dissertation proposal and send it to my committee and get it reapproved, which means I have to access data sets at my institution that have either already been collected or that are safe from future rounds of cuts like this.
But assuming you have a competent tech stack, a skilled team and youâre building something the market favors, you can launch a 30-credit online masterâs degree for roughly $900,000 to $1.2 million in the early years before breaking even as enrollment comes in.
In a news release Tuesday, the same day they filed the lawsuit, the AAUP and AFT alleged that the Trump administration used âcuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution to adopt restrictive speech codes and allow government control over teaching and learning.â
âWhile I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University,â Khalil said in a statement from an ICE detention center in Louisiana.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal described colleges and universities as testing grounds for new ideas and therefore a place where the First Amendment right to free expression must be protected.
Make sure whoever is pitching an AI project isnât going for the buzzword du jour but really has selected the correct technology to solve a real problem.