More from Kiosk's blog — Page 4

From USA Today: “The administration is leveraging the country’s primary higher education law to write a regulation that will allow the government to cancel some… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Wesleyan University will no longer consider applicants’ ties to alumni in admissions decisions, the institution announced last week. Wesleyan president Michael… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Yesterday the Education Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policy of preferential admissions treatment for the children… Read More

From The New York Times: “Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Dozens of famous employers—including investment bank Goldman Sachs and other luminaries like Deloitte, GE, IBM, JPMorgan, Nestlé, UBS and Rolls-Royce—have begun… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “The number of high schoolers taking college classes has been surging for more than two decades. In what is called dual… Read More

From Forbes: “A recent report by McKinsey and Company issues a bold challenge: graduate ten million more students than currently projected over the next 20… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Congress has a chance in the coming months to close a loophole that has allowed states to deprive Black… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “A university where students can start at any of six times during the year, take just one subject at a time… Read More

UNC responds to Supreme Court ruling From Inside Higher Ed: “In a message to the campus, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said, ‘Our responsibility to comply… Read More

With the exception of Elon Musk’s true blue believers, anyone familiar with the social space has been watching Twitter’s chaotic new era with the kind… Read More

US Supreme Court blocks affirmative action in admissions From Times Higher Education: “The nation’s top court voted 6-2 and 6-3 against race-based considerations in cases… Read More

Apprenticeships are on the rise. They’re one answer to the so-called ‘skills shortage’ From Reworked: “‘There’s a disconnect between work and school,’ Harvard professor Joseph… Read More

‘I can’t afford groceries’: Why one-third of US college students don’t have enough to eat From The Guardian: “Students face an uphill battle when trying… Read More

Grasping for a foothold on the enrollment cliff From Inside Higher Ed: “Higher ed experts gathered in D.C. … to take stock of a three-year… Read More

Apprenticeships on the rise From Education Next: “Before the pandemic, the number of people starting apprenticeships had more than doubled over the previous 10 years…. Read More

The end of the english major From The New Yorker: “According to Robert Townsend, the co-director of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities… Read More

The AI chatbot ChatGPT was launched in late November of 2022, and its output has been a ubiquitous topic of human conversation ever since. While… Read More

Holding executives responsible From Inside Higher Ed: “In the Education Department’s latest move to ramp up oversight of for-profit colleges, it outlines its authority to… Read More

ChatGPT is truly fascinating. A real-life manifestation of ideas found in science-fiction stories. However, we don’t know how to feel about it … yet. Articles… Read More

Lawmakers expand their assault on colleges’ DEI efforts From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “State lawmakers in 13 states have introduced at least 21 bills… Read More

We just got a fresh sign that Biden’s plan to give millions of student-loan borrowers who fell behind on payments a shot at debt relief… Read More

Black history month: A time for reflection, assessment From Community College Daily: “In a recent six-year tracking study, Black students had the lowest college completion… Read More

Microsoft confirms it’s investing billions in the creator of ChatGPT From CNN: “Microsoft … confirmed it is making a ‘multibillion dollar’ investment in OpenAI, the… Read More