(Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) Elon Musk facies himself at the cutting edge of every technological advance, so obviously he had to get into the generative AI game. It’s a space that he attempted to enter as an OpenAI investor. But like the other kind of space Musk tries to enter, that blew up soon…
Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center. The object is egg shaped, suggesting its potential for something to hatch from it, and appears to be metallic, but of…
It’s widely accepted that students won’t learn how to be lawyers just by virtue of going to law school, but the American Bar Association (ABA) is now cracking down on law schools to make sure students learn from their classes, period. As noted by Reuters, the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and…
If you are a grantmaking organization, there are more reasons than ever to be excited about this year’s bbcon, happening September 24-26, in Seattle. With dedicated to the work you do as grantmakers (twice as many as last year), plus extra networking opportunities to learn from each other, you won’t want to miss Blackbaud’s annual…
The Francophone Minority Communities Student Pilot program is set to launch on August 26, in partnership with designated French-language and bilingual post-secondary learning institutions. The Canadian government has said it recognises that large pools of French-speaking prospective international students exist in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas, and that the study permit approval rate…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Aug 19, 2024 at 10:16 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Monday, August 19, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 19, 2024, 10:16 AM),…
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* Current Supreme Court has opened the door to patchwork state-by-state banking laws. Because that’s how to build a global economy! [Bloomberg Law News] * How to sue NASA for fallen space debris? Seems like a one-off practice area unless some idiot tries to build personal spaceships. [Law.com] * Apropos of nothing at all, Elon…
At a time when higher education is facing enormous challenges, including attracting and retaining good leaders, Dr. Alvin J. Schexnider — a retired university president — has given us much to reflect upon in his newly published memoir titled, Confessions of a Black Academic (McFarland & Company, Inc.). Schexnider — the former chancellor of Winston-Salem…
By mid-July, the attorney F. Bryan Brice, Jr., and his client Dr. Darren Masier, an assistant professor of human resource management at Meredith College, had petitioned for an independent examination of the potential cancer cluster at Poe Hall at North Carolina State University (NC State). Getting access to perform testing has been Brice and Masier’s…