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Howard University’s redesigned Intro to AI course, supported by the nonprofit CodePath and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, introduces industry-aligned training for entry-level engineering roles. -
UW-Stout has received about $2 million of federal grants for special projects to promote civil discourse, enhance understanding of AI and expand short-term, non-degree training programs.
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The University at Albany's embrace of IBM's artificial intelligence hardware and expertise is paying quick dividends for researchers in academic departments across the school.
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The state is looking to expose more Pre-K-12 and college students to career paths in STEM fields as the country looks to increase domestic microchip production — a key goal of the CHIPS Act.
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Many educators and college faculty are OK with students consulting ChatGPT for help on admissions essays, but chatbots can't be a replacement for a student's own voice, subjective experience and thoughts.
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Rather than simply adding language about ChatGPT to her syllabus, a media-history professor at Cal State Northridge is teaching students about AI chatbots by incorporating them directly into interactive lessons.
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An ongoing education equity deals with a policy whereby researchers, in order to gain access to private education data, must agree not to release information from the data or testify about it without advance permission.
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Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports found that ChatGPT got a similar or higher average grades than students in 12 of 32 courses, with students outperforming AI in math and economics.
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The master’s program, available through the digital learning platform Noodle, will train students to create business strategies that mitigate risk and protect organizational data against cyber attacks.
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After learning in July that an unauthorized party claimed to possess sensitive data taken from the university's systems, officials contacted the FBI and hired outside global forensics experts.
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A handful of English classes developed at the University of Colorado Boulder in recent years combine literary studies with data science, challenging students to learn how to code and then analyze literature using data.
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The University of Missouri will open a new lab in 2024 to familiarize students with technologies involved in smart manufacturing, such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain and robotics.
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The University of Michigan is embracing generative artificial intelligence by providing a custom AI platform to students and staff, including a ChatGPT-like chatbot and a tool to query in-house data sets.
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As schools and universities formulate their own policies on AI, ed-tech and AI experts are cautioning state and federal policymakers against rushing into overly broad regulations without understanding the technology.
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Some educators at both the high school and college levels are torn between the need to incorporate AI into their lessons and the need to be skeptical about its reliability, security and other trade-offs.
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Colleges and universities spent much of the past year adopting ad-hoc approaches to generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, and uncertainty remains about how to use it most effectively and where the constraints should be.
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The pace of change and technological innovation over the past few years has given education and IT leaders a lot to think about. Five things that stand out are online learning, AI, cybersecurity, staffing and diversity.
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The Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Act will offer grants to college students majoring in computer science, information technology or related fields, covering up to the full cost of tuition.
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A recent report from the risk management company AAAtraq found that 97 percent of U.S. college and university websites do not fully comply with requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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UMass Chan Medical School learned about a security incident on June 1 that may have compromised names, birthdates, social security numbers, financial accounts or other sensitive information of more than 134,000 people.
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A public college in Texas last week broke ground on a $24 million facility that will provide training in diesel equipment technology, electrical lineworker and management technology, HVAC and plumbing technology.
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