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• Benchmarking Online Enterprises: Insights into Structures, Strategies, and Financial Models in Higher Education - UPCEA
  With online education continuing to play a pivotal role in expanding access and improving outcomes for learners, accurate benchmarking data is essential for universities, colleges, and other educational entities committed to the growth of online learning. The report examines the structures, functions, finances, and policies of online education units across a diverse range of higher […]
• What are AI guardrails? - McKinsey
  AI guardrails help ensure that an organization’s AI tools, and their application in the business, reflect the organization’s standards, policies, and values.But just as guardrails on the highway don’t eliminate the risk of injuries or fatalities, AI guardrails don’t guarantee that AI systems will be completely safe, fair, compliant, and ethical. For the best results, […]
• Readers can’t accurately distinguish between AI and human essays, researchers find - Anya Geist, Yale Daily News
  In a project organized by four researchers, including three from the School of Medicine, researchers tasked readers with blindly reviewing 34 essays, 22 of which were human-written and 12 which were generated by artificial intelligence. Typically, they rated the composition and structure of the AI-generated essays higher. However, if they believed an essay was AI-generated, […]
• The Impact of Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Improving The Quality of Educational Services /Case Study at The University of Baghdad (Provisionally accepted) - Namaa Fargan, et al; Frontiers in Education
  The utilization of artificial intelligence techniques has garnered significant interest in recent research due to their pivotal role in enhancing the quality of educational offerings. This study investigated the impact of employing artificial intelligence techniques on improving the quality of educational services, as perceived by students enrolled in the College of Pharmacy at the University […]
• AI models work together faster when they speak their own language - Andrew Sparkes, New Scientist
  Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth to English, could accelerate their task-solving abilities. Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth to English, could accelerate their task-solving abilities. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2455173-ai-models-work-together-faster-when-they-speak-their-own-language/
• UC faces half-billion-dollar budget shortfall and increases tuition for new nonresident students - Mikhail Zinshteyn for CalMatters, Sacramento News Review
  The University of California is eyeing a looming budget gap of half a billion dollars next year. To help balance the books it’s relying in part on its out-of-state undergraduates. Meanwhile, the system is pouring tens of billions of dollars into construction projects for seismic retrofitting, new classrooms and medical centers — while also acknowledging […]
• Engaging the Learner and Optimizing the Learner Experience in Online Education - Ron Stefanski, Market Scale
  The rapid evolution of online education has ushered in new challenges and opportunities for engaging learners and improving outcomes. With millions of students relying on virtual platforms, educators and ed-tech innovators face the critical task of creating dynamic, relevant, and impactful learning experiences. The stakes are high, as effective education not only shapes career trajectories […]
• AI policy directions in the new Trump administration - John Villasenor and Joshua Turner, Brookings
  The new administration will likely relax agency regulation, focus more on competition with China, and decrease AI-related antitrust enforcement, among other possibilities. Although predicting technological progress is difficult, the next four years will bring some unexpected developments in AI, and effectively stewarding this extraordinary technology will require a nimble and balanced set of federal policy […]
• Scale Is All You Need? Part 4-3: The Post-AGI-World - Kim Isenberg, Forward Future
  “If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility.” -OpenAIThis could give rise to a new kind of culture, one that differs greatly from today's ideals and values, since many […]
• Colleges Wonder if They Will Be ‘the Enemy’ Under Trump - Vimal Patel and Sharon Otterman, NY Times
  For many years, Republicans portrayed colleges as bastions of leftism, awash in bias against conservatives and impervious to change. With Donald J. Trump’s victory to a second presidential term and a Congress potentially under unified G.O.P. control, Republicans are now poised to escalate their efforts to root out what they see as progressive ideology in […]
• US international enrollment reached record highs. Will the trend last? - Laura Spitalniak, Higher Ed Dive
  The number of international students at U.S. colleges hit an all-time high in the 2023-24 academic year, growing 6.6% year over year to reach more than 1.1 million students, according to the annual Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State. U.S. institutions enrolled over 502,000 international graduate […]
• How Higher Ed Can ‘Safeguard’ for Democracy - Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed
  Amid a tense and polarized election cycle, conversations about higher education’s role in democracy have been bubbling, spurring a renewed focus on civic engagement and constructive discourse. But a white paper released Thursday argues that to preserve a healthy republic, higher education leaders must also focus on making colleges more accessible and improving completion rates. […]
• RIP DEI. - Amber Cabral, Fast Company
  Unfortunately, depending on where you sit on the U.S. political divide DEI or diversity, equity, and inclusion can mean wildly different things. But as I shared at the start of my TED talk, what I really do is teach people how to be good humans. Despite what has been portrayed by some folks, I do […]
• AI vs. Labor Unions: The Future of Work in the Age of Automation - Curt del Principe, HubSpot
  Unlike knitting machines, which have a fairly niche use, there are few industries that AI can’t touch. Its ability to analyze data or create customized content at scale in mere seconds makes these tools unlike any tech revolution that’s come before. Suddenly, AI appears in everything from accounting to zookeeping. In fact, around 80% of […]
• The educational divide driving American politics to the right - Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post
  We don’t have stellar data yet — clerks in some states are still out there counting votes — but it seems that at the very least, Trump solidified the educational divide that has defined his era. In fact, if exit polls are to be believed, he appears to have expanded his White base of support […]
• Agentic AI: 6 promising use cases for business - Grant Gross, CIO
  AI agents will play a vital role in software programming and cybersecurity, but they will also change enterprise workflows and business intelligence, experts say. Agentic AI, which Forrester named a top emerging technology for 2025 in June, takes generative AI a step further by emphasizing operational decision-making rather than content generation. With AI agents popping […]
• AI is already taking jobs, research shows. Routine tasks are the first to go - Mark Sullivan, Fast Company
  Researchers from Harvard Business School, the German Institute for Economic Research, and Imperial College London Business School studied 1,388,711 job posts on a major (but undisclosed) global freelance work marketplace from July 2021 to July 2023, and found that demand for such automation-prone jobs had fallen 21% just eight months after the release of ChatGPT […]
• The Third Wave Of AI Is Here: Why Agentic AI Will Transform The Way We Work - Bernard Marr, Forbes
  The chess pieces of artificial intelligence are being dramatically rearranged. While previous iterations of AI focused on making predictions or generating content, we're now witnessing the emergence of something far more sophisticated: AI agents that can independently perform complex tasks and make decisions. This third wave of AI, known as 'agentic AI,' represents a fundamental […]
• Some colleges have an answer for students questioning the value of higher ed: work-based learning - Olivia Sanchez, Hechinger Report
  At Drexel, about 94 percent of students take at least one six-month break from classes to get a job – most are paid jobs – in their prospective career field, according to Ian Sladen, the university’s vice president for cooperative education and career development. These work experiences, known as co-ops, have been part of Drexel’s […]
• New Jersey initiative brings back over 8,600 stopped-out students - Natalie Schwartz, Higher Ed Dive
  A statewide effort in New Jersey to bring back students who left college before completing their credentials has spurred reenrollment for over 8,600 stopped-out students, according to a Tuesday announcement from the state higher education secretary’s office. Eighteen colleges will receive $1.6 million in grants to help stopped-out students cover things like unexpected expenses and […]