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Report Finds Students Struggling with Being Prepared for Courses and Increasingly Turning to Generative AI, Social Media to Study

Campus Technology  Kate Lucariello November 7, 2023 In its second annual 2023 “Study Trends Report,” McGraw Hill found that college students were feeling unprepared for their courses, but also that they have turned to generative AI and social media to study and would like more learning resources in a similar format. The study, conducted by Morning Consult between July […]

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Trump-era antisemitism policy expected to fuel flood of student lawsuits against universities

NBC News Jean Lee and Simone Weichselbaum November 4, 2023 As campuses across the country continue to erupt in protests over the Israel-Hamas war, a little-known 2019 presidential executive order is expected to fuel a flood of student legal claims against universities. Attorneys — from a mix of white-shoe corporate firms to Jewish advocacy groups […]

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Gainful Employment and Financial Value Transparency Regulations: Visualizing the scope

On EdTech Newsletter  Phil Hill November 26, 2023 The recently finalized Gainful Employment (GE) and Financial Value Transparency (FVT) regulations, to be in effect as of July 1, 2024, are proving to be quite confusing. Part of the problem is the Gainful Employment language, which leads people to think of the late Obama Administration version that was […]

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Judge’s Order Complicates Education Department’s Borrower-Defense Program

Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott November 7, 2023 For-profit DeVry University won’t have to pay nearly $24 million to the U.S.—for now—thanks to a court ruling that could hamper the department’s plans to make colleges that mislead their students pay up. Earlier this fall, the Education Department announced that it would forgive $109 million in loans […]

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