Grace Peasley, Author at Wally Boston

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

Posted on March 11, 2025 (March 31, 2025)

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 […]

Generative AI Agents – Game Changers?

Posted on March 3, 2025

(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 […]

AI Agents: Trendy, Misunderstood, or the Next Frontier

Posted on February 26, 2025 (February 26, 2025)

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 […]

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

Posted on February 21, 2025 (February 21, 2025)

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.” […]

Regular LLM Content Creation Versus LLM Reasoning

Posted on February 14, 2025 (May 13, 2025)

Artificial intelligence tools, particularly those offered by well-funded companies like OpenAI, are constantly changing. Some of those changes occur thanks to the software’s machine learning design. Other changes are based on observations and implemented by programmers with access to the code. An emerging feature that’s been getting attention recently is LLM reasoning. One of my […]

Continuing the Conversation With ChatGPT About the Cost of Knowledge

Posted on February 3, 2025

After my last post, a few friends and colleagues contacted me and noted that the article posing several questions to ChatGPT about the cost of knowledge was excellent. A few of them indicated that they might pursue a similar series of prompts with ChatGPT or another AI tool. As I noted in my post, I […]

ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

Posted on January 27, 2025 (February 3, 2025)

Paul LeBlanc, long-time president of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), stepped down on June 30 to co-found and lead Human Systems, an artificial intelligence (AI) and education startup funded by SNHU. During a recent discussion at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. LeBlanc was asked what types of people he hires for his new venture. His […]

AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

Posted on January 22, 2025 (January 22, 2025)

I’ve been writing about artificial intelligence off and on since 2010. After the release of ChatGPT-3 in November 2022, I increased my pace of reading and writing substantially. During a recent Academic Affairs Board Committee meeting, one of the committee members asked me if I would send her a list of relevant AI publications and […]

WICHE Projection of High School Graduates

Posted on December 18, 2024 (December 18, 2024)

For a while, various reporters and writers have mentioned the pending demographic cliff, the year in which the number of U.S. high school seniors peak. The data, based on birth rates, indicates that graduating seniors will peak in the Spring of 2025, and colleges will experience fewer applicants for the next dozen or so years […]

College Affordability: Is the Market Driving the Cost of Tuition?

Posted on December 10, 2024 (December 10, 2024)

Every state in the U.S. provides free education to its residents from grades K-12. Some states have added Pre-K to that free education continuum, and others have added funding for free community college tuition. The higher education initiatives aim to improve college affordability for certain students. Unlike other countries, the U.S. does not have a […]

Author: Grace Peasley

Posts by Grace Peasley

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

Generative AI Agents – Game Changers?

AI Agents: Trendy, Misunderstood, or the Next Frontier

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

Regular LLM Content Creation Versus LLM Reasoning

Continuing the Conversation With ChatGPT About the Cost of Knowledge

ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

WICHE Projection of High School Graduates

College Affordability: Is the Market Driving the Cost of Tuition?

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