[ad_1] Every so often I read a piece that connects familiar dots in new ways. Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter With Kansas? was like that when it was published; Frank put together stuff I knew in ways I hadn’t and brought new clarity to old questions. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed did something similar for …
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[ad_1] In three decades as chief lobbyist for the American Council on Education, Terry W. Hartle had a front-row seat for just about every important federal policy discussion that affected colleges, their students and their employees. He retired this winter after 30 years as senior vice president for government and public affairs at ACE, the …
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[ad_1] Loyola University of New Orleans students are protesting their university’s decision to not retain the director of its African and African American Studies program. Scott Heath, that program’s director and the Jesuit institution’s only Black tenure-track English professor, said his contract is set to expire at the end of this academic year. “No one …
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[ad_1] After Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of the alternatives to the social media website that users flocked to was Mastodon. It’s a decentralized network where people can choose from multiple servers or “instances,” with each one being independently operated. At the moment, there are 12,000-plus instances people can choose from, and the Mastodon …
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[ad_1] The word shrewd has appeared in 117 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 31 in “The ChatGPT King Isn’t Worried, but He Knows You Might Be” by Cade Metz: Mr. Altman, a slim, boyish-looking, 37-year-old entrepreneur and investor from the suburbs of St. Louis, sits calmly in the middle of …
[ad_1] In my last essay, I provided a financial forecast for the higher education sector. My assessment: colleges and universities face an incredibly challenging environment over the next three to five years. I predict declining enrollment, declining revenue, constraints on the ability to increase tuition and increasing costs. These factors will put many institutions in …
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[ad_1] Samsung has reportedly banned employees from using popular generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and Bing out of security concerns. The Korea-based company notified employees at one of its biggest divisions on Monday of the new policy, Bloomberg reported. The ban is out of concern that data used by AI platforms is …
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[ad_1] Imagine if you will, a pizza. Not a normal pizza, a weird pizza. A pizza that looks misshapen in ways that make your eyes dip in and out of focus. Like an M.C. Escher drawing. Except instead of endless staircases and people walking upside down, it’s pizza. Now imagine this pizza moving towards a …
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[ad_1] VPN For Teachers: Privacy, Security, And Internet Freedom Technology has transformed teaching. Many teachers now rely on online resources to create engaging curriculums, organize their work, and expand their skill sets. Thanks to global connectivity, teachers can now even deliver lectures to students thousands of miles away! However, the online world poses many security threats. …
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[ad_1] Redfall is not fit for public consumption. It may not give you salmonella, but Arkane Austin’s vampire-infused world is unpolished, underpopulated and littered with glitches. From the jump, there are signs the game would’ve benefited from another delay before launch day. That’s not to say Redfall is a bad game filled with terrible ideas, …
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