Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.
Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. That’s in part because of a huge batch of new tools and updated features that incorporate ChatGPT, which companies have released in recent weeks.
As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose this information to students?
Over the last several months, the higher education world has seen significant developments around online program managers, or OPMs. These are for-profit companies that generally help colleges create and market virtual degrees and bootcamps in return for a slice of tuition revenue.
The most egregious challenges with OPMs still stand, however. Colleges often don’t pay OPMs unless they recruit students into the online programs, incentivizing them to employ predatory recruitment tactics to boost enrollment.
California State University is taking the forecast of a snowballing budget gap so seriously, even a recent message touting a new hire came with the equivalent of a financial weather advisory.
The nation’s largest university system welcomed Emily F. Cutrer as the new interim president of Sonoma State University last week with the stern reminder that she must address “enormous financial pressures” facing the university, with the fall 2023 enrollment down more than 36 percent over the last decade.
Maine, which is the most rural state in the United States, has placed strategic bets on remote learning and remote work that pays dividends.
This video shares how that investment is increasing flexibility for caregivers and nontraditional students, expanding participation in the workforce for people with disabilities, and bringing new opportunities for economic success in rural areas.
There’s a lot of public debate about Title IX, but the campus offices that investigate complaints under the law tend to work behind closed doors. Nicole Bedera aims to pry them open.
Bedera was granted an unusual level of access to Title IX proceedings at a large public university, which she doesn’t name. Bedera sat in on meetings, read case files, and interviewed the students and employees who reported sexual assault, those who faced accusations, and administrators tasked with handling the cases. She discusses her experience in this interview.
Some 3,200 people were arrested this spring during a wave of pro-Palestinian tent encampments protesting the war in Gaza.
Many students have already seen those charges dismissed. Others are still waiting for a resolution. Along with the legal limbo, those students face uncertainty in their academic careers. Some remain steadfast, saying they would have made the same decisions to protest even if they had known the consequences. Others have struggled with the aftermath of the arrests, harboring doubts about whether to stay enrolled in college at all.
