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Pell Runners: Is Financial Aid Fraud Too Easy?

April 23, 2025

A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American…

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

April 10, 2025

I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog…

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The Ongoing Debate About Online Course Pricing

March 28, 2025

For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early…

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The Impact of AI on the Workforce and Training/Upskilling

March 24, 2025

By now, it should be evident that generative AI tools will impact the future of the workforce. Predictions of the extent of the impact vary widely. There are several papers…

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Tuition Increases Continue to Support the Thesis that College Is…

March 11, 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…

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Generative AI Agents – Game Changers?

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…

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AI Agents: Trendy, Misunderstood, or the Next Frontier

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,…

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

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…

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Regular LLM Content Creation Versus LLM Reasoning

February 14, 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…

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