ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are no longer “new” news. However, the interest that they unleashed in AI from a user and producer perspective continues to accelerate. In the early days of ChatGPT, I could cover many of the latest AI advances with a monthly article. That’s impossible now. It’s hard not to write about […]
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It’s almost impossible for a week to go by without reading about financial difficulties for institutions in the higher ed sector. From small private colleges with projected enrollment declines to large public universities dealing with declining per student subsidies from the state legislature, the stories abound. Earlier this year, I wrote about projected losses in […]
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Pennsylvania’s Higher Education system has been struggling for a few years. Triggered primarily by declining enrollments, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) proposed cost cuts and campus consolidations in 2019 in return for increased funding from the state’s legislature. Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) announced on Monday, January 22, that it plans to […]
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The volume and frequency of news about Artificial Intelligence applications and tools has been unprecedented. Over the past year, I have attempted to provide coverage of singularly important releases like ChatGPT or occasional summaries of the AI news as it hits my inbox. My most recent update about AI was January 8. This update does […]
Forecasts of future operating losses for private and public colleges and universities have appeared fairly frequently in recent months. When a newspaper article written by Times Union reporter Kathleen Moore showed up in my newsfeed, I took the time to read it. Ms. Kathleen Moore wrote about a report from the SUNY System that was […]
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I’ve been writing about Artificial Intelligence for over 10 years. The field of AI research dates to the 1950’s. Advances in the field over the years since have accelerated as the costs of computing power decreased. The public’s awareness of AI was accentuated by the free access to ChatGPT a year ago. Last month, I […]
Whenever I talk about increases in college tuition over the past four decades, I begin with the 18% tuition increase implemented by Harvard University in 1978 followed by a decade of high single digit annual increases. Other elite universities followed suit. It wasn’t long before the non-elite private colleges implemented tuition discounting. In 1994, economist […]
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The trials and tribulations of small college economics are not something new. Pre-pandemic, Bob Zemsky, Susan Shaman, and Susan Baldridge published The College Stress Test outlining a methodology to determine whether or not a college was in financial difficulties. The College Stress Test Methodology For the four-year, private non-profit sector, The College Stress Test created […]
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During my tenure as president at the American Public University System (APUS), APUS was a member of UPCEA (University Professional Continuing Education Association). UPCEA now markets itself as the Online and Professional Education Association. UPCEA recently issued a report titled Predictions 2024: Insights for Online & Professional Education. UPCEA believes that online and professional continuing […]
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I was listening to a podcast interview last week and heard one of the speakers mention that if there was a feature length movie in the future about the history of artificial intelligence (AI), that we are currently in the first 10 seconds of the trailer. That triggered me to write a few thoughts about […]
