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• Universities urged to prepare students for AI‑driven economy - Jamaica Gleaner
  A pointed warning about the future of work and education took centre stage as the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM), UWI, Mona brought together leaders from academia and industry to confront a pressing question: is the Caribbean truly ready for the age of artificial intelligence? At the recent George Willie Lecture Series, David […]
• 4 higher education leaders on AI’s biggest benefits and risks - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  Artificial intelligence is rapidly progressing and poised to reshape the workforce in the near future. The higher education sector is in a unique position, as both an employer of millions of workers and a system that prepares students for the labor force. At the annual ASU+GSV Summit last week, four college leaders talked to Higher […]
• Research cuts are now having a chilling effect on academia - Alcino Donadel, University Business
  Some experts see early and dire consequences for the science and education research community. “We’ve been hearing about the cuts coming down, but this spring, you’re really starting to see the effects,” says Chenjerai Kumanyika, assistant professor at New York University and council member for the American Association of University Professors. In February, Congress passed a fiscal year […]
• YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities - Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
  YouTube is expanding its new “likeness detection” technology, which identifies AI-generated content, such as deepfakes, to people within the entertainment industry, the company announced on Tuesday. The technology works similarly to YouTube’s existing Content ID system, which detects copyright-protected material in users’ uploaded videos, allowing rights owners to request removal or share in the video’s […]
• College Students Are More Polarized Than Ever. Can AI Help? - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  Over the past few years, higher education institutions have adopted emerging artificial intelligence tools in an effort to enhance nearly every aspect of campus life—not just teaching and learning but also admissions, alumni networks, fundraising and advising. Now some are even experimenting with AI’s ability to advance one of the hottest trends on college campuses: […]
• This is the fastest-growing job for young workers, LinkedIn says - Mary Cunningham, CBS News
  As the rise of artificial intelligence stirs anxiety over the technology taking people's jobs, AI is also opening pathways to new careers, according to LinkedIn. The fastest-growing job title for young workers on the networking platform is "AI engineer," a recent report from the company found. LinkedIn analyzed millions of member profiles to determine the […]
• AI fears drive some young adults to grad school — ‘people shelter in higher education,’ expert says - Jessica Dickler, CNBC
  Typically, enrollment in graduate school increases during recessions as workers seek to advance or to move to another industry with better career prospects or pay. Today, more people in a survey said they plan to go back to school within a year, even though the economy is doing well. Experts say young adults are exploring […]
• Learn essential AI skills - Google Skills Lab
  We're building AI skills programs, trainings, and tools to address the specific needs of workers everywhere. Discover Google's courses and resources designed to help you succeed in an AI-driven world. Check out this free resource site from Google.https://ai.google/learn-ai-skills/
• Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators - Todd Wallack, Washington Post
  It takes most college students at least four years to earn a bachelor’s degree. Christie Williams finished in three months. The North Carolina human resources executive spent two months racking up credits through web tutorials after work in 2024, then raced through 11 online classes at the University of Maine at Presque Isle in four […]
• Is Your AI Ethical, Human-Centered and Pro-Social? - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  Many of us utilize AI daily in our higher education work, yet we may not have assessed the ethical and human-centered nature of the tool we have selected and trained through our prompts. AI tools are no longer a relatively simple search engine that is driven by marketing metrics to help us conduct our research. […]
• Rewired 2.0: How leading companies are (still) winning with AI - McKinsey
  Companies that successfully transform with AI can boost their EBITDA by roughly 20 percent, according to Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI. In this newly released second edition of the Rewired bestseller, five McKinsey leaders draw on more than 30 case studies to show how organizations turn AI ambition into measurable value. […]
• Provost's office funds 24 transformative initiatives - Rob Schweers, Iowa State University
  The office of the senior vice president and provost has announced $2.4 million in funding across two years for 24 transformative initiatives to support new academic programs, student success and career readiness, and build additional capacity in artificial intelligence (AI). Senior vice president and provost Jason Keith announced the one-time funding initiative in December, and […]
• New microcredentials launched to meet workforce and adult learner needs - University of Southern Indiana
  The University of Southern Indiana has launched a new slate of undergraduate and graduate microcredential programs, expanding flexible, short‑term learning options for working professionals, adult learners and students seeking targeted skill development. Introduced in fall 2025 and expanding in 2026, USI’s microcredentials align with the University’s core value of transformative learning and reflect a growing demand […]
• As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt - Lexi Lonas Cochran, the Hill
  A recent poll shows AI’s increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities that are still struggling to determine how the technology will shape higher education. The Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education survey found 47 percent of currently enrolled college students have thought about switching majors […]
• Nation’s first Online J.D. Program graduates share special camaraderie at St. Mary’s Law - Nathaniel Miller, St. Mary's University
  Together, the cohort known as Section O is the inaugural group for the law school’s Online J.D. Program. When it launched in Fall 2022, it was the first fully online J.D. program accredited by the American Bar Association. Now, additional law schools have followed the St. Mary’s Law example with their own online programs. Created […]
• How a master's in AI can prepare you to lead in business - Chloë Lane, GMAC
  In our most recent GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey Report, ‘skills in AI tools’ rose significantly in importance year-over-year—reflecting the growing demand for this proficiency. One effective way to build these desirable skills is by studying a master’s in AI—a specialist master’s degree that bridges the gap between technical expertise and business application. One such program […]
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  We have months left... in the Wake of Mythos and Glasswing Response - Wes Roth, YouTubeThe emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos model marks a significant shift in the AI landscape, particularly regarding cybersecurity. As Wes Roth details, the model possesses an "emergent" ability to autonomously identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in codebases that were previously thought […]
• Students are becoming AI fluent. Universities aren’t. - James L. Norrie, University Business
  Across higher education, artificial intelligence is too often being governed as though it were primarily an academic integrity issue. It is clearly not just that. AI is already reshaping how universities teach, advise, recruit, admit, communicate, assess risk, and make decisions. Yet many institutions continue to approach it through fragmented policies, uneven faculty guidance, and […]
• Economists Starting to Admit They May Have Been Wrong About AI Never Replacing Human Jobs: They're taking it seriously - Joe Wilkins, Futurism
  As a sweeping economics paper by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Forecasting Research Institute (FRI), and numerous top universities found, that attitude may be shifting. As time goes on, top economic experts are increasingly factoring extreme AI disruption into their models. Yet acknowledging a possibility and accepting its inevitable are two very […]
• The AI Transformation Manifesto - McKinsey
  The companies that are truly innovating with AI are doing something very different from their peers: They are conceptualizing and developing AI capabilities that reshape their products, services, core business processes, and organizational systems. These leading companies—many profiled in the second edition of our seminal book, Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI—are […]