DePaul engages first-year students in cultural immersion
Similar to many first-year seminars, each course is co-led by a faculty instructor, staff member and peer Chicago Quarter Mentor.
Non-tenure-track faculty demand Harvard stop forcing them out
Sara Feldman, a Harvard preceptor who teaches Yiddish, described the policy as “cruel, destructive and frankly ridiculous.” She said her position “has been the joy of my life, and, at the same time, I’m limited in what I can do because I don’t have the opportunity to build past eight years.”
AI as a Service (AIaaS): What Higher Education Needs to Know
While the university’s supercomputing center allows in-house AI development, private sector companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are integrating GenAI and other learning automation functionality into their software platforms.
Survey: Student confidence in career prep, future success
VanDerziel worries about this, too, saying that “higher ed needs to help students with these life skills and provide services that will set them up for future success.” But he says that graduates are taking job security and well-being, including mental health, into account choosing where to work, according to NACE research.
Johnson & Wales University debuts 3-year bachelor’s programs
Brigham Young University-Idaho and Utah’s Ensign College, both of which are owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, won approval from their accreditor last year to begin offering a limited selection of three-year online bachelor’s programs.
Ed Dept. forgave $17.2B in student loans, report finds
North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx, the Republican chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, who originally requested the GAO report in 2016, cited the findings as further evidence that the Biden administration is trying to foist unpaid student loans on taxpayers.
State ballot measures would help improve college facilities
But opponents, such as Assembly Member Bill Essayli, a Republican, and Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, argued that increasing state debt is not the right approach.
Low-income students work more amid rising college costs, analysis finds
Lower-income students worked more hours to cover the rising net cost of college, while middle- and upper-income families have taken out more loans, according to a recent analysis from the Brookings Institution.
Employers, four-year colleges provide community college internships
HICCC leaders hope it helps build a diverse talent pipeline and provide students with experiences for economic mobility in the field of health sciences.
Q&A with author of “Smart University”
The technology, while pitched as a way to reduce costs and improve campus sustainability, can actually perpetuate racial and economic inequalities in the higher education system, argues Weinberg, a clinical associate professor at Purdue University.
Teaching Romance languages in a nonbinary world (opinion)
Through the committee’s work, we’ve incorporated nonbinary pronouns and gender-diverse language into reading, writing and speaking exercises that reflect the diversity of situations that students might encounter in real life.
Harvard faculty suspended from library over protest
According to a copy of the suspension notice shared by faculty members, protest participants “assembled with the purpose of capturing people’s attention through the display of tent-card signs.” That move violated university policy, according to the letter signed by the Widener Library administration.
Penn State cancer researcher faces retractions, research ban
Pennsylvania State University has barred a biomedical engineering professor from conducting further research following an investigation that found “unreliable data” in numerous publications she authored, The Philadelphia Inquirerreported Thursday.
EDUCAUSE 2024: Top 10 IT Issues List Seeks to Restore Trust in Higher Ed
Susan Grajek, vice president of partnerships, communities and research at EDUCAUSE, presented this year's list at the organization's annual conference in San Antonio.
EDUCAUSE 2024: Institutions Embark on Cross-Campus Generative AI Initiatives
“We worked with stakeholders to identify the six key limitations of engaging with generative AI: security and privacy, hallucinations, misalignment, bias, ethics and cognitive offloading,” Schell said.
Another advance for the three-year degree
“Offering three-year bachelor’s degree programs with just 90 credits allows more students to begin their career journeys sooner—and with a lower financial obligation,” said Mim L. Runey, chancellor of Johnson & Wales.
World college leaders discuss academic freedom threats in U.S.
Matei was provost at Central European University when the parliament led by Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, passed a law in 2017 essentially forcing his institution out of the country.