Wally Boston, Author at Wally Boston

How Much More Do College Graduates Earn as Compared to High School Graduates?

Posted on April 4, 2023 (August 1, 2024)

For years I’ve read articles and listened to speakers who have touted the difference in lifetime earnings between college graduates and high school graduates. Usually, they mention that the average college graduate will earn approximately $1 million more than the average high school graduate over a lifetime of working 40-45 years. I’ve been suspicious of […]

Pause Giant AI Experiments?

Posted on April 3, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

The Future of Life Institute issued an open letter this week that called for a six month pause on giant AI experiments, specifically those that are greater than Chat GPT4. The letter’s original signees write that despite many endorsements of the Asilomar AI Principles, AI development is on the verge of getting out of control. […]

Why Limit a College Program Reboot Due to Generative AI to only MBA Programs?

Posted on March 30, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

Last week, I read a Forbes article written by Villanova University graduate business school professor Noah Barsky that argued for MBA programs to utilize generative AI for a massive reboot. Mr. Barsky cited Microsoft’s announcement about the release of Co-Pilot, a generative artificial intelligence tool to be integrated into its Office 365 suite, as a […]

The Crisis Facing the US Higher Education System: Part Two

Posted on March 22, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

A few months ago, I published a blog article about the Crisis in American Higher Education: Evolution and Continuing Disruptions. The article was a summary of a five-part series that outlined a speech I gave for a group of business executives. Dr. Bjorn Mercer, Department Chair, Communication and World Languages, School of Arts and Humanities at […]

Hands-on Training ChatGPT

Posted on March 20, 2023 (January 19, 2025)

In my most recent project, I prompted ChatGPT to design a ChatGPT training course for college employees. It provided me with the title of the course, the objective, the duration, and the agenda. I changed nothing from its response. I prompted it again to provide me with an overview of ChatGPT, its capabilities, potential applications, […]

You Don’t Have to Know How to Code AI; You Have to Learn How to Use It

Posted on March 17, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

I worked as a management consultant for Price Waterhouse & Co. in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. As a recently minted MBA who was also a CPA, much of my work involved building financial forecasting models utilizing time sharing software. In October of 1979, VisiCorp released a product for the Apple II personal computer […]

My Quest for the Best Cheeseburgers in Austin

Posted on March 16, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

Friends of mine from Penn relocated to Austin shortly after I did. I live in South Austin, and they live on the north side. We enjoy sharing restaurant recommendations as we continue to find out more about the city. I’m not a restaurant critic, but I consider it a waste of time, money, and calories […]

Random Thoughts About College Tuition, Student Loans, and Return on Investment

Posted on March 15, 2023 (November 4, 2024)

The history of federal and state involvement in subsidizing the cost of higher education has filled books. From the federal perspective, Congress opted to support the students’ cost of college attendance through student loans versus grants beginning in the 1950’s. The need-based Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (now known as a Pell Grant) was initiated for […]

Digital Credentials and Talent Acquisition Tech

Posted on March 14, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

A recently published research report from Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy in partnership with 1EdTech attracted my attention. Report co-authors Sean Gallagher, Mark Leuba, Christopher Houston, and Emilee Trieckel wrote that in 2021 the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy in conjunction with 1edtech conducted […]

Remembering Richard G. Trefry

Posted on March 13, 2023 (October 17, 2023)

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Richard (Dick) G. Trefry died on February 25, 2023, at the age of 98. He was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts and graduated from Marblehead High School in 1942. He spent a year at Dartmouth College before dropping out of college in 1943 and enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II. […]

Author: Wally Boston

Posts by Wally Boston

How Much More Do College Graduates Earn as Compared to High School Graduates?

Pause Giant AI Experiments?

Why Limit a College Program Reboot Due to Generative AI to only MBA Programs?

The Crisis Facing the US Higher Education System: Part Two

Hands-on Training ChatGPT

You Don’t Have to Know How to Code AI; You Have to Learn How to Use It

My Quest for the Best Cheeseburgers in Austin

Random Thoughts About College Tuition, Student Loans, and Return on Investment

Digital Credentials and Talent Acquisition Tech

Remembering Richard G. Trefry

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Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce