Higher Education

AI agents are customizable tools with more decision-making power than chatbots. They have the potential to automate more tasks, and some schools have implemented them for administrative and educational purposes.

Part of Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal would cover tuition at any public community college in New York for adults studying fields such as advanced manufacturing, technology, engineering, AI or cybersecurity.

Starting in May, a college in central Pennsylvania will offer a five-course,15-credit online program focused on emerging AI trends, online learning practices, and strategies to improve student engagement and outcomes.

The university's new policy requires anyone who wants to send a mass email to file a request to be evaluated by the UI Office of Strategic Communication, which will then use written standards to determine its validity.

The idea that any latest technology will change education forever is a familiar one. Artificial intelligence’s adaptability and expertise make it different, experts said, but further reflection is needed.

Many schools struggle to keep up with artificial intelligence and navigate between third-party solutions. Working with Pathify has helped the College of Eastern Idaho aggregate numerous information sources in one dashboard.

If approved by the college's accrediting body, the Computer Information Systems (CIS) program will become the school's second bachelor's degree offering.

A new brief from the U.S. Department of Education outlines five key suggestions for the future of artificial intelligence in higher education. Partnerships, it said, can aid in creating solutions.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a balanced state budget would spend $168 million to “standardize and streamline data collection” across state community colleges. It would also create two new entities.

As many as 350 electric vehicle charging stations could go in to State University of New York campuses as a result of $15 million in recently announced federal funding. The stations will be spread across its 64 campuses.

Learning opportunities in correctional facilities help prepare inmates to successfully transition back into society. Nucleos and iCEV are working together to make that experience easier and more accessible.

The federal funding will go to buy new devices, improve public library infrastructure and offer digital literacy training. The money, a grant, is estimated to reach more than 2,000 people over five years.

Colleges and universities are important record keepers for history and research. With the help of artificial intelligence, archivists can transcribe, search for and interact with records in new ways.

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface.

The funding, coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, will be used for purchasing new library devices, improving public library computer infrastructure and digital literacy training.

Software that detects AI use and plagiarism in writing now offers a function to assess the credibility of claims in a body of text, offering Internet sources that either support or contradict the author's claims.

A $9.9 million federal grant will help the college use extended reality, in the form of virtual tours and VR videos, to give people with disabilities a glimpse into what a typical workday in manufacturing looks like.

A new AI-powered app aims to improve U.S. math proficiency by giving college students one-on-one math support while cutting educators’ workload by taking on course planning, assignment creation and grading.