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From Higher Ed Dive: “Best Buy is expanding its education benefits to offer no-debt, no-cost pathways to college degrees for all full- and part-time employees… Read More

From HR Digest: “Since 2018, the program provided employees with support for completing their college education while they continued to work, guaranteeing assistance for both… Read More

From Inside Higher Education: “Ray Li, who previously worked as an attorney in the Office for Civil Rights, said the tone of the FAQ differs… Read More

From The New York Times: Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy…. Read More

On Valentine’s Day, just before the President’s Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Dear Colleague letter that… Read More

From Inside Higher Education: “Nearly four years ago, President Biden took office with ambitious plans to relieve millions of borrowers from student debt, protect trans… Read More

From Higher Ed Dive: “Over the course of eight years, the Obama Administration worked to promote affordability, access, cost management and transparency in higher education…. Read More

From Inside Higher Education: “As Secretary of Education, (in George W. Bush’s administration) Margaret Spellings put together one of the most high-profile commissions on higher… Read More

From The Hill: “In the late 1990s, the Clinton Administration spearheaded an effort to make it dramatically more difficult for Americans with student loans to… Read More

From The Chronicle: “As president, he tackled discrimination in intercollegiate athletics, segregation in the nation’s public colleges, and fraud in student-aid programs. He sought to… Read More

From The Chronicle: “California still boasted a system of public higher education that was the envy of the world. And on February 28, 1967, a… Read More

February 28, 1967. Almost sixty years ago today. That’s when newly elected Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, stood at a press conference and suggested that… Read More

From Evolllution: “As AI learns to automate knowledge-worker tasks, it will become increasingly important for individuals to develop uniquely human skills like communication and critical… Read More

From Inside Higher Education: “Highly customized admissions information and processes. Credit transfer evaluations that take minutes, not days or weeks. Precision tuition discounting estimates. Student… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “Academics believe that students are using AI to complete nearly half (43 per cent) of their university work, whereas students themselves… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “The issue of academic integrity is increasingly complex. If there is any consensus among academics on these issues it is that… Read More

From The Chronicle: “The University of Texas at Arlington’s AI policy allows faculty members to choose whether and how to allow AI use, but it… Read More

From The Chronicle: “In my own courses and as director of an AI institute for instructors at my university, I’ve adopted and suggested this method:… Read More

From The AI Report: “OpenAI has finally released real-time vision capabilities for ChatGPT, to celebrate the 6th day of the ‘12 Days of OpenAI.’ Users… Read More

From The Chronicle: “People have nightmares of AI-powered killing machines turning our world into a robotic dystopia. But a less-bloody yet equally striking transformation is… Read More

From The Chronicle: “I wouldn’t say we have robot professors. But what I would say is that we have technologies that are capable of doing… Read More

From Higher Ed Dive: “Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, especially those at colleges, have faced an onslaught of conservative-led legislative and policy attacks in recent… Read More

Higher education is at an inflection point where artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging trend but a transformative tool reshaping the student experience,… Read More

In 1948, as a student at Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an article in the student newspaper, “Maroon Tiger” providing his views on… Read More