Higher Education

Global esports organization Gen.G purchased an analytics company specific to the League of Legends game and will use the technology to develop student prospects in its academy program.

The University of Texas at Austin is working with the AI-powered writing assistant platform Grammarly for Education to study what generative artificial intelligence tools might do for academia.

The college tabled a proposed agreement with CampusWorks for managed IT services, which would have required members of the college's IT department to either agree to work for CampusWorks or resign by Friday.

A new website includes articles, profiles and other information on institutions and educational programs to help prospective undergraduate and graduate students chart their course through school to their job of choice.

The finance software company Sage made donations to the HBCU Morehouse College and its Center for Broadening Participation in Computing in support of classes in artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship.

A growing number of students and working professionals are returning to school to learn about artificial intelligence, hoping to cash in on the buzzy market and millions of dollars in support from large tech companies.

The Phoenix-based Canyon GBS’ first community college client is Joliet Junior College in Illinois, which intends to launch an enterprise AI assistant for a variety of instructional and administrative purposes.

Whether they major in creative writing, fine arts, film or virtual reality development, students at the Ringling College of Art and Design can add an AI certificate and develop a project portfolio for job searches.

New "patients" made of plastic, metal and microchips are designed to sense their environment and simulate human patient experiences for students in the University of Oklahoma's College of Nursing.

Video surveillance for security reasons is fairly common on college campuses, but as law enforcement increasingly uses facial recognition to identify suspects, protestors worry they could be targeted for expressing opinions.

Courses will cover topics including mathematics, computing, machine learning, applications of AI, and large-scale data sets, with the goal of preparing students to influence policies and fill jobs that don't yet exist.

The searchable database of ed-tech tools and institutions gives users a snapshot of technological infrastructure at colleges and universities across the U.S. to help them make informed technology purchases.

Now that students know what generative artificial intelligence is, it's time to make it more reliable by training new LLMs on educational content and large data sets fine-tuned by human subject-matter experts.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre has partnered with the cybersecurity company Fortinet to offer students training and certifications in Fortinet systems while getting their degrees, at no extra cost.

Campus union activists and professors say they worry that the growing popularity of AI tools for administrative tasks at colleges and universities could lead to fewer jobs and more student frustrations.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will name the best student programming teams in the world based on their performances in timed challenges.

CIO, University of California, San Diego

The department is giving money to 16 colleges for programs that train or upskill students for work in fields such as advanced manufacturing, IT, and infrastructure-related sectors like transportation and renewable energy.