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Zoom’s Changing Stances on AI and User Data Have Faculty Alarmed
Faculty members joined the social media outrage over Zoom’s ambiguity on using data to feed its AI and machine learning platforms.
WSJ Report Finds Sharp Spending Increase at Flagships
A Wall Street Journal analysis looking at two decades’ worth of financial documents found that spending at flagship institutions has...
How Grading Veered 'Off the Mark'
A new book by two education professors explores why assessment became so fraught and what we can do to restore its original purpose: helping students learn.
San Francisco to Clear City College Students' Debts
The city of San Francisco is clearing the debts of 13,000 people who could not take courses at the local...
Research Halted at Columbia-Linked NY Psychiatric Institute
The federal government halted human research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Columbia University psychiatry department’s flagship site...
Rethinking Responding to Student Writing
New book argues that students respond more effectively to peers’ writing than professors do and that they’re skilled at self-assessment, too. Still, professors can lay the groundwork for this feedback through scripts and other scaffolding.
Poaching From the Neighbor’s Yard
Enrollment and demographic declines are leading some regional public colleges to entice students from neighboring states, stoking tensions and spurring competition.