e27 Shane Duggan July 13, 2023 AI has the potential to provide a higher quality online course experience by making it more personalized, interactive, and efficient. Artificial Intelligence is becoming part and parcel of our everyday lives, and soon, we will be seeing it in every industry — the online […]
Insider Noah Sheidlower July 11, 2023 The US may be experiencing a factory boom, but finding the workers to staff them may be a more difficult task. Data from the Census Bureau released last week shows construction spending on US manufacturing at its highest levels of the 2000s, nearly doubling from $110 billion […]
Semafor Joseph Zeballos-Roig July 7, 2023 The Biden administration is giving student debt forgiveness another shot. But don’t expect this sequel to work out much better than the original, experts are warning. “Everything seems set up to fail, but in an elongated way,” Braxton Brewington, press secretary of the Debt […]
EDUCAUSE Katie Branson June 29, 2023 The current Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) Agreement requires higher education institutions to attest to full compliance with new Safeguards Rule provisions. A new version of the SAIG Agreement coming this fall may include new cybersecurity obligations related to the redisclosure of federal tax […]
The Hill Adam Barnes and Lexi Lonas July 10, 2023 Americans with student loans could see thousands of dollars in interest added to their tabs as part of President Biden’s backup relief proposal. The Biden administration is attempting to use a proposed aid program to help millions of student debt holders handle […]
The Heritage Foundation Jack Fitzhenry July 10, 2023 Can limits be found even to an emergency? Can the Constitution’s tripartite division of federal powers withstand the blows and novel respiratory viruses that history lobs at us from time to time? Can they withstand the enterprising legal justifications of an administration […]
Ed Surge Daniel Mollenkamp July 11, 2023 William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to […]
Gallup Megan Brenan July 11, 2023 STORY HIGHLIGHTS 36% have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education Confidence down from 48% in 2018 and 57% in 2015 All major subgroups less confident, with Republicans dropping the most WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ confidence in higher education […]
faegre drinker July 6, 2023 At a Glance Both public colleges and universities, and private institutions receiving federal funds, are prohibited from considering race in admissions decisions. Colleges and universities must carefully review and assess their admissions policies to ensure compliance with the Court’s rulings. There may be significant implications […]
The College Fix Garrett Marchand July 6, 2023 A new report from an influential conservative think tank calls on Congress to fix the college accreditation process and end accreditors’ stranglehold on higher education. With the stated aim of returning “accreditation to its original function as a mechanism for quality assurance […]