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The Evolution of Higher Ed’s Federal Financial Aid Programs in the U.S.

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During the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term in office, he implemented the following actions, some of which will affect federal financial aid: Issued several executive orders Sent letters to universities inquiring about their support of anti-Semitic activities Suspended federal grants to Columbia and Harvard Cut the federal research grant administrative expense reimbursement […]

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Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn’t Matter

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Many people talk about transforming higher education. Sadly, most of their suggestions relate to common ideas such as cutting administrative costs, reducing program majors that are underenrolled or no longer relevant, and improving student retention. When I read the pre-published blurb about Scott Carlson‘s and Ned Laff’s book Hacking College, I ordered it. The book […]

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Pell Runners: Is Financial Aid Fraud Too Easy?

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A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American Journal of Cardiology: “At the suggestion of Larry Summers (the Obama Administration) ‘urged state unemployment offices to send a letter to every person receiving jobless […]

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

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I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog articles and creating audio files, aka podcasts. There were a few “hiccups,” but I enjoyed the audio output. Recently, I read that Google added more […]

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The Ongoing Debate About Online Course Pricing

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For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early years, I knew and worked with many of the major contributors to the development and improvement of online education and understood online course pricing very […]

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The Impact of AI on the Workforce and Training/Upskilling

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By now, it should be evident that generative AI tools will impact the future of the workforce. Predictions of the extent of the impact vary widely. There are several papers and articles that have come to my attention over the past few weeks that provide similar findings and viewpoints. Using AI in the Workplace as […]

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Tuition Increases Continue to Support the Thesis that College Is for the Wealthy

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I frequently write and speak about the higher-than-inflationary college tuition increases since the late 1970’s. More specifically, how the decision by Harvard’s Board in 1978 to increase Harvard’s undergraduate tuition the next year by 18% led to similar increases by its Ivy Plus peer institutions and many private colleges. Moreover, Harvard continued to increase its […]

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Generative AI Agents – Game Changers?

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(The article below was written by Stanford University’s STORM application. A summary of the article was included in my previous blog post. I decided it was worthwhile to post the article in its entirety as a separate post. STORM uses hyperlinks for each of its sources. I opted to create a list of works cited […]

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AI Agents: Trendy, Misunderstood, or the Next Frontier

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Generative AI’s release to the world less than three years ago triggered a frenzy of new “products,” as well as predictions and criticisms of the technology. Over the past year, the term AI agents began appearing more frequently in the news. The July 24, 2024 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly included an article written by […]

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U.S. Copyright Office Issues Two Reports About Artificial Intelligence

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The U.S. Copyright Office is charged by statute with administering the United States’ copyright laws. It is housed in the Library of Congress, and its mission is “to promote creativity and free expression by administering the nation’s copyright laws and by providing impartial, expert advice on copyright law and policy for the benefit of all.” […]

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Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce

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