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Federal legislation signed into law this month rewrites student loan and grant policy with the goal of frugality, with critics warning it may push students toward loans and programs with fewer protections.
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The capacity of learning analytics platforms to collect troves of student data makes them both institutional necessities and liabilities. A handful of best practices can help colleges and universities keep them secure.
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A 2023 indictment unsealed this week alleges that two men were directed by China's spy agency to target and access the emails of virologists and immunologists at two Houston-area universities.
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Over half of the private colleges in Wisconsin had budget shortfalls at the end of the 2022-23 school year, and many are focusing on in-demand fields such as computer science, AI and health care to turn things around.
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The financial advisory firm Curinos tapped the University of Washington and its innovation hub to support early-stage financial tech companies working in predictive decision-making, AI automation and customer experience.
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A new two-year program at a community college in Vancouver will train surgical technologists, who prepare equipment for medical procedures. The college also hopes to build partnerships with local health care providers.
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A recent event at N.C. A&T State University gave hundreds of students a hands-on experience with a robotic surgical machine and other medical technologies, with labs and stations nearby to answer student questions.
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The American Public University System’s online bachelor’s degree in esports earned the first official recognition for an esports management program from the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation.
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The university's new regional economic development office will work with Micron to help faculty and students conduct research and to develop curriculum tailored to jobs in the semiconductor industry.
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The Michigan Economic Development Corporation gave money to a private university to develop curricula in semiconductors, hydrogen fuel and software engineering, and to launch summer hackathon camps for PK-12 students.
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At Central New Mexico Community College, the only program of its kind in the state is training solar panel installers at a time when clean energy jobs are growing at more than twice the rate of overall U.S. employment.
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The Maryland Energy Administration offered grants to 11 colleges and universities to install solar panels and draft strategies to incorporate renewable energy into academics and workforce preparation.
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The Louisiana Board of Regents projects a 42 percent shortage of registered nurses by 2030. A nursing school dean at a private Catholic university in Baton Rouge says AI tools are helping teach and mentor students.
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The University of South Florida will put its largest-ever donation to use funding scholarships, hiring faculty and developing a new space for the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
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The university system's students and staff have free access to “AI Essentials,” a five-hour course in the Google Career Certificate program that teaches people to use AI responsibly and effectively.
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NVIDIA is lending teaching materials and upskilling opportunities in artificial intelligence to Utah's higher education students and state workers in a new partnership with colleges and universities across the state.
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An Honors Program at Central Michigan University challenges students to consider philosophical questions around artificial intelligence, like the nature of sentience and the ethics of using AI tools on assignments.
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Yale University professors flagged unusually long, elaborate answers on an exam as possible cheating with an AI chatbot. Now the student alleges they discriminated against him, a French native residing in Texas.
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The University of Chicago’s proprietary chatbot, PhoenixAI, leverages OpenAI models but serves as an open-ended platform for faculty, students and administrators to experiment and find new use cases.
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Voters in Oklahoma this week narrowly passed a bond to improve a career and technical education center, including expanding capacity for high-demand programs like cybersecurity, programming AI and aviation technology.
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In addition to almost every four-year college in the state, the Connecticut AI Alliance will also include six community organizations and nonprofit agencies working together to drive innovation and create jobs.
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