Inside Higher Ed Liam Knox July 16, 2023 The law firm Cozen O’Connor released its full external review of California State University’s Title IX and Discrimination, Retaliation and Harassment (DHR) procedures yesterday, recommending a slew of reporting and adjudication changes that it estimates will cost the system about $25 million a year. The […]
U.S. Department of Education July 18, 2023 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov Last week, the Department of Education began notifying impacted borrowers they were eligible for automatic loan relief The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today released state-by-state data on the number of borrowers who are eligible for automatic loan relief […]
Campus Technology David Nagel July 17, 2023 D2L has partnered with Copyleaks to integrate AI-based plagiarism detection into its D2L Brightspace learning platform. Copyleaks technology is designed to “identify potential plagiarism and paraphrasing across 100 languages, uncover AI-generated content, verify authenticity and ownership, and empower error-free writing,” according to information released by the companies. […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott July 17, 2023 The debt discharge is the result of an effort to give borrowers credit for more payments and rectify failings in the student loan system. More than 804,000 borrowers will have their student loans forgiven in the next month following moves by the […]
The American Independent Oliver Willis July 14, 2023 Republicans attacked President Joe Biden after his administration announced on Friday that it would forgive $39 billion in student loans, aiding over 804,000 people. The Department of Education said in a statement that loan forgiveness was made possible through fixes made to the federal […]
Inside Higher Ed Jessica Blake July 11, 2023 A Gallup poll shows only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, which is down by about 20 percentage points from eight years ago. Americans’ confidence in higher education is at an all-time low, […]
UB University Business Alcino Donadel July 12, 2023 The median parental income for dependent first-generation students is $41,000. For continuing-generation students, it’s $90,000. More than half of today’s college students are first-generation (56%), according to the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). As more institutions and nonprofits emphasize incentivizing these […]
Inside Higher Ed Jessica Blake July 13, 2023 Mildred García, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, will be the next CSU chancellor. The California State University Board of Trustees has appointed Mildred García, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and an experienced […]
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 […]