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fromFortune
9 hours ago

'They'll lose their humanity': Dartmouth professor says he's surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI | Fortune

In a recent interview, the former consultant at McKinsey and Innosight, a boutique firm cofounded by Clayton Christensen and Mark Johnson in 2000 and acquired by Huron in 2017, revealed the prevailing mood among the next generation of business leaders isn't just excitement-it is fear. "One of the things that really surprises me consistently is how scared our students are of using it," Anthony said.
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#gaza
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 day ago
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Palestinian immigrant achieves American dream in Contra Costa County

Johny Khalilieh immigrated from Beit Jala to the Bay Area and built careers in teaching and restaurant ownership through persistence, education, and entrepreneurship.
fromKqed
3 weeks ago
California

Misinformation Spreads as Trump Moves to Cut Aid for Some California Students | KQED

California's policy granting in-state tuition and state financial aid to some undocumented students faces a federal lawsuit alleging federal-law violations and unconstitutional benefits.
fromKqed
3 weeks ago
California

Misinformation Spreads as Trump Moves to Cut Aid for Some California Students | KQED

#erasmus
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fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago

Universities risk becoming passive arms of Silicon Valley if they don't question how AI shapes truth, a professor says

Universities risk losing intellectual autonomy by adopting Big Tech AI systems that reshape definitions of knowledge, truth, and academic values.
fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago
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Universities risk becoming passive arms of Silicon Valley if they don't question how AI shapes truth, a professor says

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 day ago

AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir's Work for Ed Department

The AAUP says it learned of the partnership when FedScoop reported that it noticed a message referencing Palantir on the website foreignfundinghighered.gov Dec. 4. An hour later, the website showed "a login page with the Palantir logo," and, a couple of hours after that, "the Palantir logo was replaced with an Education Department logo," the outlet wrote. Foreignfundinghighered.gov tracks foreign gifts and contracts data for higher ed institutions.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 days ago

Public Trust Requires Both Reform and Defense

Higher ed cannot restore public trust in colleges and universities unless the sector reckons in a clear-eyed fashion with the causes of the current crisis. Simply put, the fundamental problem is that when the sector or its individual institutions draw public criticism, we are unable either to make quick changes in response, to explain compellingly why we should not do so, or to redirect public attention effectively toward the overall value and purpose of our work.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 days ago

OpenAIinks deals with colleges, seizing early lead in education market

OpenAI secured an early lead on US college campuses by selling hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT licenses and driving widespread student and faculty usage.
#philanthropy
fromSFGATE
1 week ago
Higher education

This Calif. university is the latest to score millions from Mackenzie Scott

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Fundraising

MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune

fromSFGATE
1 week ago
Higher education

This Calif. university is the latest to score millions from Mackenzie Scott

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Fundraising

MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune

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fromAbove the Law
3 days ago

Get Ready For U.S. News Law School Rankings To Make No Sense - Above the Law

U.S. News law school rankings once provided crude but useful prestige guidance, but recent projections produce implausible ties undermining their credibility as a prestige barometer.
fromBusiness Matters
3 days ago

Erasmus scheme set to return for UK students from 2027

At the time, the then prime minister Boris Johnson described leaving the scheme as a "tough decision", arguing that participation had become "extremely expensive".
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fromCornell Chronicle
5 days ago

Historic gift endows Cornell CALS Ashley School | Cornell Chronicle

$55 million endowment establishes the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment, merging global development and natural resources departments.
fromTruthout
5 days ago

Texas Universities Use AI to Rewrite How Courses Mention Race and Gender

A senior Texas A&M University System official testing a new artificial intelligence tool this fall asked it to find how many courses discuss feminism at one of its regional universities. Each time she asked in a slightly different way, she got a different number. "Either the tool is learning from my previous queries," Texas A&M system's chief strategy officer Korry Castillo told colleagues in an email, "or we need to fine tune our requests to get the best results."
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fromBusiness Insider
5 days ago

Trump is taking on America's college debate

The Education Department will expand Pell grants to fund short-term credential programs, offering low-income students faster, lower-debt pathways into the workforce.
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fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

Stop Trying to Make the Humanities 'Relevant'

Humanities must defend rigorous, difficult inquiry against demands for immediate practicality and the commodification of knowledge by frictionless technologies.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

AI Isn't Killing Education

AI exposes education's reliance on ritual and signaling, revealing brittle institutions that traded judgment for compliance and polished fluency for real thinking.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

I'm an entrepreneur who never went to college and taught my kids to avoid debt. They both decided to go to college anyway.

My mom has been a salon owner in Baltimore for over 35 years. The salon was my after-school program, my social circle, and my introduction to business. I learned early that work is more than a paycheck. It is the foundation for the kind of life you want to live. My mom didn't talk about freedom in a motivational sense. She lived it. She set her own schedule and ran the business in a way that made sense for her.
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fromFortune
1 week ago

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations-but it's become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate | Fortune

College disability accommodations have surged since the pandemic, driven by rising mental-health diagnoses, broader access to care, and debate over potential misuse.
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fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

Columbia Law School unveils new library named for outstanding alum amNewYork

Columbia Law School opened the 50,000-square-foot Li Lu Law Library, funded by a $15 million donation from alumnus Li Lu, featuring a two-story reading room.
#mackenzie-scott
fromFortune
1 week ago
Fundraising

'This year, I really see education and climate': Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott's massive giving emerge with time | Fortune

fromFortune
1 week ago
Fundraising

'This year, I really see education and climate': Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott's massive giving emerge with time | Fortune

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fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

DACA was once a lifeline for undocumented youth. It's leaving the next generation behind

Frozen DACA applications and intensified enforcement leave many undocumented students excluded from education, work authorization, and future mobility.
fromNieman Lab
1 week ago

Student journalists rise to an unprecedented challenge

It's called CollegeWatch. For this job, I am reading constantly about the topic - stories we're publishing, yes, but also stories from publications big and small. What quickly struck me is the power of the work coming out of campus publications, and how little we would know about the full scale of this assault if it were not for these student journalists.
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Higher education
fromNature
1 week ago

What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

Generative AI avatars can teach university courses with LLM-driven real-time responses, and avatar realism influences student trust and acceptance.
fromNature
1 week ago

Will young universities set the pace in the age of AI?

Universities are facing mounting challenges. From falling enrolments to dwindling support from populist governments, many institutions are in survival mode. Throw AI into the mix as a possible solution, and it's either a lifeline or a distraction, depending on whom you ask. In the four years since our last Young Universities supplement, the context for these institutions (aged 50 or younger) has changed dramatically.
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fromHarvard Business Review
1 week ago

Setting Goals for Your Team When the Path Isn't Clear

To be able to see students, to get to know them, to get to see how they grow and change during these four years, and then to see them have success as they launch into the world, and then to see that they reach back so quickly to give back and to see the way that our community supports our students as they are navigating, exploring their values and their purpose and what they're feeling called to do. All of that is just really rewarding.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

A welcome pit stop: the US university using parking lots to help unhoused students

Safe parking programs provide students experiencing homelessness essential dignity, hygiene access, and temporary stability while persistent instability harms mental health and academic progress.
#religious-discrimination
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago
US politics

Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' After Flunking Psychology Paper in Which She Only Cites the Bible

fromJezebel
2 weeks ago
US politics

Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' After Flunking Psychology Paper in Which She Only Cites the Bible

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fromABC7 San Francisco
2 weeks ago

Some California universities seeing decline in enrollment: Here's why

San Francisco State's enrollment fell 26% since 2015 due to regional demographic decline, increased competition from UCs/Cal States, and San Francisco's high housing costs.
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fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks ago

Vallejo mayor also a professor at Pleasant Hill's Diablo Valley College

Andrea Sorce balances duties as Vallejo mayor and DVC economics professor, using teaching to advance government transparency, accountability, and civic engagement.
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
2 weeks ago

Vallejo mayor also a professor at Pleasant Hill's Diablo Valley College

At 39, she divides her time between shaping young minds as an economics professor at the Pleasant Hill campus of Diablo Valley College (DVC) and steering the city of Vallejo toward transparency, accountability and trust. It has been a challenge balancing the dual roles, especially because there is a lot of work to do in Vallejo, said Sorce, who says she wishes she had 40 hours in a day.
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fromPeople Work
3 weeks ago

The Junior Hiring Crisis

It's not very encouraging. According to very recent research from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, published in August of this year, companies that adopt AI at higher rates are hiring juniors 13% less. Another study from Harvard published in October of this year cites that early-career folks from 22-25 years old, in these same fields, are experiencing greater unemployment while senior hiring remains stable or even growing.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

ICE Detains Ferris State Prof., DHS Calls Him "Sex Offender"

ICE arrested Sumith Gunasekera in Detroit on Nov. 12, DHS announced in its Nov. 25 release. That's the date Ferris State "became aware of accusations regarding" Gunasekera, university spokesperson David Murray said in an emailed statement. Murray didn't answer further questions from Inside Higher Ed Monday, including whether the university performed a background check on Gunasekera before hiring him. "He has been placed on administrative leave while the university gathers more information," Murray wrote.
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fromAdvocate.com
2 weeks ago

Oklahoma University instructor suspended for failing student's unscientific anti-trans psychology essay

Graduate teaching assistant Mel Curth, who graded the paper, wrote that the zero was based on academic criteria, not retaliation for the student's religious views. Curth wrote that the essay "does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive." Curth also noted that portraying a marginalized group as "demonic" is "highly offensive," and urged the student to use empirical sources rather than doctrinal statements when critiquing course material.
LGBT
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Musk: AI will make skills obsolete, but college still has social value

"AI and robotics is a supersonic tsunami. This is really going to be the most radical change that we've ever seen,"
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago

University punishes trans educator for "discrimination" after student calls her "demonic" - LGBTQ Nation

A transgender TA was placed on administrative leave after giving a student a zero on an essay that labeled trans people "demonic".
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fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Shakespeare and Company

Mark Twain advised colleges to learn less, criticizing excessive accumulation of impractical research and the burdens of classical and certain mathematical studies.
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago

Babson College supports student deported to Honduras

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she tried to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas. She was sent to Honduras two days later despite a court order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States, according to her attorney. Lopez Belloza, whose family emigrated from Honduras when she was 7, is now staying with her grandparents.
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fromIntelligencer
3 weeks ago

The Trump-Administration Change That Could Cripple Nursing

As part of the funding package, the U.S. Department of Education is ending the Grad PLUS loan program, which allows prospective graduate students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance. Instead, the agency will be instituting borrowing caps, making the maximum figures dependent on whether a student is pursuing a "professional degree." Currently, the list of the graduate programs designated as professional spans a variety of fields, from medicine, dentistry, and law to more surprising inclusions like theology.
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