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Colgate adds vocational ed to benefits for employee children

[ad_1] Colgate University has added vocational and trade schools to its benefit for employees’ children. Colgate, like many colleges, has offered all children, aged 25 and under, of employees who have worked full-time at the university for at least seven years a grant of $33,311, not to exceed the tuition of a college. The college …

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Amazon Web Services Wants to Teach You How to Use Generative AI

[ad_1] Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that it will offer seven new courses designed to help people understand and use Amazon’s generative AI services. Amazon will offer most of the initial courses for free, and the courses are intended for developers, business executives and anyone else interested in using AI. The free courses include Amazon …

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American Council on Education to join UCLA in managing Freshman Survey

[ad_1] Fifty years ago, one of higher education’s foremost researchers, the late Alexander (Sandy) Astin, left his professional home at the American Council on Education for the University of California, Los Angeles—taking his prized creation, the Freshman Survey, with him. The longitudinal survey, an annual look at the experiences, attitudes and behaviors of incoming college …

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Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation

[ad_1] Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here A coalition of a half-dozen open source AI stakeholders, — Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons, LAION and Open Future — are calling on EU policymakers to protect open source innovation as they finalize the EU AI Act, which will be the world’s first …

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What has to happen for academic leaders to prioritize climate risk?

[ad_1] The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters by Juliette Kayyem  Published in March 2022 The book that has had the most significant impact on how I think about my higher ed job is Bryan Alexander’s Universities on Fire. In that book, Bryan connects the macro trends related to climate …

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AI boom creates concerns for recent graduates, study finds

[ad_1] More than half of recent graduates question whether they are properly prepared for the workforce in light of the rise of artificial intelligence, a survey finds. In addition to the 52 percent who question their preparedness, 46 percent feel threatened by the new technology, according to Cengage Group’s “2023 Graduate Employability Report.” This year’s survey of …

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