7 Tips for Success – A Note From A Friend

  Usually when I write a blog article, most of the comments I receive are from LinkedIn connections who read my message and link to the article. My recent post about legacy admissions triggered an email from a long-time friend, Lee. Lee and I worked together at Price Waterhouse before the partnership merged with Coopers […]

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WCET Surveys Institutions to Determine AI Policies & Practices

WCET may be known to more colleges and universities for its support of the State Authorization Network that ultimately became NC-SARA, the framework to allow colleges and universities offering distance education courses across state lines to avoid the complexity of going through licensing in many states. However, WCET has been the source and impetus for […]

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The AI Revolution | Are Humans Being Replaced?

In a recently published article, New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks quotes scientist Douglas Hofstadter for its title, “Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed.” Mr. Brooks writes that he was happy when he read a Hofstadter essay from 2018 that argued that Google Translate was a shallow product, not capable of replacing […]

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Should Legacy Admissions Be Eliminated?

Legacy admissions are typically defined as the preferences given by colleges to applicants who have a relationship to alumni of the institution. They can also include preferences extended to the children of individuals who made significant donations to the college or its programs. After the Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action was announced on June […]

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Benefits of Higher Education | Is It Worth It?

NYU Stern marketing professor Scott Galloway’s No Mercy/No Malice blog is one of his many media forums. In an article published last week titled Super Drug, Professor Galloway talks about the benefits of higher education on people’s lives comparing higher education to a super drug for its benefits. He writes that America manufactures the drug […]

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Covid Deprived Students of Learning in Reading and Math

Sarah Mervosh’s article in today’s New York Times reports that U.S. students’ progress in reading and math stagnated last year despite billions in federal funding to make up for Covid-related losses. Where is the hue and cry from the public regarding news like this? It will be surprising if the Times article becomes viral and […]

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Ancestry Surnames

One of my good friends is writing a book about a prominent family in Maryland. He recently commented about discovering various members of that family with notable accomplishments whose last names are not the same. He remarked that many people conducting ancestry research identify with their father’s last name and don’t spend as much time […]

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Thoughts About Generative Textbooks in Higher Education

A few days ago, David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, posted a blog article titled Generative Textbooks. After a short introduction, he wrote that he “started wondering – what if, in the future, educators didn’t write textbooks at all? What if, instead, we only wrote structured collections of highly crafted prompts? In linear […]

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Student Loan Debt Forgiveness | Why There’s No Easy Solution

After Friday’s Supreme Court decision affirmed the lawsuits that challenged the legality of the Biden Administration’s loan forgiveness program, it appears that the Biden Administration was prepared to lose their legal appeal. Later that day, President Biden announced that he will create a new loan forgiveness program based on a law different than the HEROES […]

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Subjects of Interest

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Student Persistence

Workforce