[ad_1] Sister Candace Introcaso, president of La Roche University, died Monday. The provost, Howard J. Ishiyama, who has been named acting president, issued a statement on Twitter: “The La Roche University community is heartbroken. We have lost our leader, our mentor and our friend. We are remembering Sister Candace for her caring nature, her efficient and direct …
[ad_1] Truth be told, vendors are rushing chat bots out to the market, many of them in beta version, in order to meet their competition and secure a place for a much better version that is still under development. As we watch the growing number and variety of apps using generative AI, we are seeing …
[ad_1] A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with a colleague who opined that we’re missing entire categories of what should count as general education. For example, how many homeowners actually understand what goes on behind an electrical outlet? How many adults could repair a clogged drain if they had to? How many …
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[ad_1] The American Federation of Teachers and the Student Borrower Protection Center say in a new report that an effort to block the Biden administration’s debt-relief plan would do far more than just that, throwing “a monkey wrench” in the student loan system and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The report says the student …
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[ad_1] This year’s commencement speakers were blunt in describing the country’s bleak state of affairs, but they also shared poignant personal reflections, messages of hope and words of inspiration—none of which were attributed to ChatGPT. Inside Higher Ed reviewed only a small share of the season’s speeches—plenty are still to come, after all—so this sampling …
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[ad_1] New College of Florida faculty members voted to censure the Board of Trustees this week, accusing them of failing to fulfill their fiduciary duties, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported. A letter from New College faculty to President Richard Corcoran argued that the board has failed in its fiduciary duties by not “caring for the institution’s …
[ad_1] The Texas Legislature has passed a bill to ensure the University of Texas at Austin would not have to completely change how it selects its freshman classes, The Texas Tribune reported. Current law requires the university to admit 75 percent of its students from those in the top 6 percent of their classes in Texas high …
[ad_1] John Schlueter, chair of the English department at Saint Paul College, was shocked when he started teaching creative writing on a volunteer basis at county jails in Minnesota. He and other members of a local nonprofit group called Freewriters found little educational programming to speak of in the jails other than Alcoholics Anonymous and …
[ad_1] U.S. News & World Report has announced changes in the formula it uses to calculate its “Best Colleges” lists. The magazine will be removing “the following factors as ranking indicators: alumni giving, faculty with terminal degree, class size and high school standing; such factors will be included in school profiles and comparison tools for …
[ad_1] After two years of free-falling college and university enrollments, head counts seem to be settling into a slow descent, according to a new report on spring enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Over all, enrollments declined by 0.5 percent across all higher ed sectors since spring 2022, according to the report. That’s …
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