This week in 5 numbers: Tuition discounts inch up
We’re rounding up top recent stories, from rising tuition discounts at private colleges to Indiana professors suing over a new state tenure law. #week #numbers #Tuition #discounts #inch
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UK sector urged to “campaign in your constituency”
Meeting on the same day as the MAC review was published, MPs supportive of the industry acknowledged that there is still work to be done to defend the industry’s success and limit risk to the graduate route – despite the MAC’s recommendation for it to remain. “There is an expectation that you know everything about…
Combating Gender-Based Violence on College Campuses Must Start at the Top
Gender-based violence, harassment, and sexual assault continue to be rampant on college campuses across the country. More than one out of every eight students experiences rape or sexual assault, and one-in-five female students reports receiving assistance from a victim-services agency. Faculty and staff are also at risk of harm. Collectively, higher education must give this…
News Roundup – North Carolina Criminal Law
It sounds like there’s a criminal trial of some kind going on in New York, but the big trial this week here in North Carolina was the retrial of self-proclaimed billionaire insurance magnate Greg Lindberg. Lindberg was once the state’s leading campaign donor. According to this AP story, a federal jury in the Western District…
Financially struggling 2U adds 6 new programs to Pepperdine University partnership
Dive Brief: 2U has added six new programs to its partnership with Pepperdine University, a Christian institution in California and one of the online program manager’s largest clients. The expansion brings the total number of online programs 2U has developed with Pepperdine to 12. The latest include online master’s in teaching and speech-language pathology and…
English UK launches ELT manifesto after a successful year
The membership body for English language schools is feeling bullish since new published student booking data reveals the best year in 2023 for member-wide business since the pandemic. Student numbers rose to 76% of 2019 levels while student weeks rose to 71% for English UK members, while private members fared best in terms of member type….
Harvard Avoids Cops as Protest Goes From Gown to Town
Emil GuillermoOn Monday of last week, when Harvard Interim President Alan Garber sent out his letter to alumni, I shook my head. After other universities — most notably MIT and George Washington University were resorting to police violence to end encampments — Garber was standing firm but going a different route. He told students they…
Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs for Community College Classrooms: Strategies to Ensure Reliable and Trustworthy AI-Powered Learning Tools – Faculty Focus
According to Jandrić (2019) in “The Post-digital Challenge of Critical Media Literacy,” Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can exhibit unpredictable and biased behaviors that their creators and researchers are unable to directly control. Jandrić argues that AI systems do not merely reproduce or embed existing biases found in their training data but can also recombine these…
Manage Law Firm Leads with Law Ruler (2024)
Clients have more ways to find and communicate with attorneys than ever before. For attorneys, this represents an opportunity and a challenge. As an opportunity, it’s easier to directly target potential clients when they need your help. Compare the potential “right time, right place” effectiveness of a Google Local Services Ad versus an old-school yellow…
ApplyBoard partners with Canada’s TD bank
TD, which hosts over 27 million customers as of January 2024, will help students coming to Canada from India, China, Pakistan, the Philippines, Morocco, Senegal and Vietnam, to meet eligibility requirements under the Student Direct Stream. The specific collaboration – The TD International Student GIC program – pertains to demonstrating proof of financial ability, helping…