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AI as a Service (AIaaS): What Higher Education Needs to Know

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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)

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

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

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

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.