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American Confidence in Higher Ed Hits Historic Low
A Gallup poll shows only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, which is down by about 20 percentage points from eight years ago.
AI Has a Language Diversity Problem. Humans Do, Too.
AI writing tools sometimes “correct” students’ dialects. But fixing the tech’s shortcomings may be easier than addressing human language biases.
Weekly Wisdom | Interview with Georgia State University President Brian Blake
Get inspired by this incredible conversation about leadership with Georgia State University President Brian Blake.
Living in Los Angeles, Studying at Berkeley
When Bill Zhou was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley last year, he checked out housing and found it...
Improving Learning Through Interactive TV Shows: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Mark Warschauer, professor of education and informatics at the University of California, Irvine, explores how...
After Supreme Court Ruling, Can the Essay Get You In?
It may help to identify minority students, but experts caution against expecting essays to replace affirmative action.
UNC Responds to Supreme Court Ruling
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill responded on Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week barring...
Education as Privilege Laundering
The most powerful contemporary magic is to transform money into “merit,” Musa al-Gharbi writes.