[ad_1] Harvard University has placed a business administration professor who studies dishonesty on administrative leave, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The professor, Francesca Gino, was one of the authors of a 2012 article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. One of the article’s authors told The Chronicle that Harvard found more …
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[ad_1] Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a nonprofit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix, KTVB7 News reported. “We see that this transaction has potential, but we also see that it has risk. And as elected representatives, we on this committee specifically have the duty of fiscal …
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[ad_1] After reading the umpteenth profile of ChatGPT, I decided to test it out this week. I asked it how many vice presidents of the United States later became presidents. It said nine. The correct answer is 16. It’s slightly over a third of the total number of presidents. It listed the nine it claimed: …
[ad_1] the executive director of Arizona State University’s T. W. Lewis Center for Personal Development said she’s being fired next week and her center is closing because she organized an event featuring Charlie Kirk, Robert Kiyosaki and Dennis Prager. Ann Atkinson wrote in The Wall Street Journal Monday that the February event “outraged” faculty members at …
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[ad_1] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is committed to leveraging generative AI to support education. He often speaks about his concern for higher education and student debt. On March 20, 2022, @sama tweeted, “I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears.” His concerns motivated him to reach out to Sal …
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[ad_1] A majority of student loan borrowers who are incarcerated have likely defaulted on their loans and would benefit from President Biden’s debt-relief plan, a new report from the Student Borrower Protection Center argues. “Without student loan cancellation, most incarcerated borrowers will be locked out of higher education and the improved post-release outcomes it brings,” …
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[ad_1] Colleges are still waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on affirmative action in their admissions programs. A final decision is expected in the next two weeks. As they wait, college and university officials are continuing to explore what they will do to enroll diverse classes in the likely event that Harvard University …
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[ad_1] Seattle Pacific University has announced plans to cut its academic budget by 40 percent in the next year, The Seattle Times reported. The cuts will mostly be achieved through faculty layoffs. The university blamed falling enrollment for the cuts. “My heart is breaking,” said Jeffrey Overstreet, an assistant professor of English and a former student …
[ad_1] Colleges and universities and those representing them in Washington, D.C., are concerned about a set of proposals from the Education Department that could potentially usher in a new era of accountability for all types of programs. Under the plan, the department would report more data about all programs on students’ debt loads and earnings …
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[ad_1] For Father’s Day, my daughter took me on a walking tour of Princeton and offered to pay for any book I wanted at Labyrinth Books. I picked Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, by Henry Grabar. My wife thought that was the most preposterous thing she had seen in years. It’s worth reading. …
