Pro-woke professors leave Florida universities in protest
University professors in Florida are leaving in droves, and blaming the state’s fight against woke policies. Read more
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University professors in Florida are leaving in droves, and blaming the state’s fight against woke policies. Read more
Despite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way Read more
Research by UCLA psychologists shows that, astonishingly, the artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performs about as well as college undergraduates when asked to solve the sort of reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and standardized tests such as the SAT. The study is published in Nature Human Behaviour. Read more
A committee that oversees the University of California system’s admissions standards recently voted to stop accepting high school data science classes as advanced math courses, saying students who take these classes are not fully prepared for college-level STEM courses. Read more
Following news stories in the past few days, it's understandable you might be concerned about your data. Read more
The newly minted university is just the latest institution attempting to reframe its image at a time of enrollment declines and public skepticism about higher education. Read more
Companies consistently don’t pay full value for medical discoveries in what Bentley study calls a ‘systematic problem’ Read more
The 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) is the survey’s first iteration to ask students about food insecurity and homelessness, and it may have unearthed a different kind of pandemic students have long been struggling with in pursuit of postsecondary education. Read more
The exams pass rate in Scotland has fallen for the second successive year after the grading system became stricter after the Covid pandemic. Read more
Zoom has updated its terms of service after a backlash over fears that it trained its artificial intelligence (AI) models on customer calls. Read more