Across the broad spectrum of LinkedIn notifications and unsolicited email, I found out about Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science’s series of virtual events related to generative AI. May 19 was the date for the icebreaker events with a keynote talk by Dr. Tom Mitchell, the founding professor of CMU’s Machine Learning department which […]
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Inside Higher Ed’s Susan D’Agostino’s recent article, Colleges Race to Hire and Build Amid AI ‘Gold Rush’, was as thoroughly researched and thought provoking as any of her previous publications. In fact, I decided to paraphrase the article and use the facts she presented as a baseline for tracking and updating college and university initiatives […]
I’ve been a fan of computers since I learned to program COBOL as a 12-year-old. Although I chose not to become a professional programmer, I’ve had direct and indirect supervisory roles of technology throughout my career beginning with my first job as a consultant with Price Waterhouse. Major innovations in IT have always fascinated me. […]
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During my summer break between 9th and 10th grades, I decided to teach myself how to touch type. My high school offered a Typing class, but I thought I would be better off teaching myself how to type that summer and taking an Advanced Placement class instead of Typing class. Fortunately for me, my mother […]
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There are many ways that people and companies are utilizing the features of ChatGPT. I thought I would try to utilize the AI tool to see if it could suggest a reasonable way to solve the very large problem of transferring credits from one college to another. The prompts are in bold and the ChatGPT3.5 […]
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On May 13, Preston Cooper published Why is Graduate School So Expensive? on the FREEOP substack called The Tassel. At the beginning of the article, Mr. Cooper provides a few hard-hitting facts. Graduate students will account for 48 percent of new federal student loans in 2023. Graduates of master’s degree programs owe more than $55,000 […]
In an April 2023 article titled How Fast is the Dual Enrollment Market Growing?, Eduventures Senior Analyst at Encoura Clint Raine tackles a topic made more relevant this Spring when it was revealed that dual enrollment was the major reason for community college enrollments increasing for the first time since the pandemic. Mr. Raine writes […]
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Workcred and the University of Texas System released a report last month titled Integrating Microcredentials into Undergraduate Experiences. Workcred is an affiliate of the American National Standards Institute also known as ANSI. ANSI oversees standards and conformity assessment activities in the United States. The UT System is the umbrella organization for 13 public institutions in […]
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The World Economic Forum just published its Future of Jobs Report 2023. The 295-page report doesn’t have to be read cover-to-cover, particularly if you are only interested in global trends and specifically, what is predicted to happen in the United States and one or two other countries. I found the first 60 pages to be […]
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Earlier this week, Liam Knox’s Inside Higher Ed article, Slimming Down to Stay Afloat, compared the decision by West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee to pare down expenses to offset projected enrollment declines as either an act of surrender or a prudent choice. President Gee revealed his decision to a group of faculty, administrators, […]
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