Covid crisis could see ‘learning designers’ supplant academic roles
While overhauls of workforce and institutional architecture beckon, Australian report predicts esteem for expertise in post-pandemic world
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What’s New in Commencements? Robots
Thunderbird School of Global Management used avatar robots so students could still "walk" across the stage.
Require administration layoffs before colleges get any more higher ed bailouts: scholars
Colleges and universities should be required to cut administrative bloat by 50 percent or more before they are entitled to receive any more bailout money from the feds, argues a right-leaning group of scholars.
‘Plandemic’ virus conspiracy video spreads across social media
Major social networks are rushing to take down a new coronavirus conspiracy theory video which has rapidly spread across the internet.
Corruption watchdog probes Adelaide leadership
Investigation concerns ‘serious or systemic misconduct and maladministration, not corruption
University of Michigan law students devise legal challenge to governor’s stay-at-home order
They unearthed a state and federal ‘fundamental right to intrastate travel’
Windfall for Small Colleges
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is coming under fire for spreading millions in stimulus aid to institutions with barely any students, while other colleges struggle.
University of Georgia rejects students’ calls for lax grading: ‘Reach higher, not lower’
The University System of Georgia is denying students the option for pass/fail grading this semester because of the coronavirus.
The ‘public’ in public college could be endangered
Since the Great Recession, states have taken drastically different approaches to funding colleges. The pandemic poses an even bigger challenge.
Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto
Google's sister firm Sidewalk Labs has scrapped a plan to build a smart city in Canada, citing complications caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
