Coronavirus: How can AI help fight the pandemic?
Executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook met officials at Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss their role in the coronavirus crisis.
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House kills higher education budget after citing BSU diversity letter
Legislators killed the higher education budget on the House floor Monday morning, offering a sharp rebuke to Idaho’s college and university system and casting doubt on the Legislature’s ability to adjourn the 2020 session next week.
Time to re-examine the Humboldtian model, says Schmidt
Funding designed around a ‘false premise’ that every university is research-intensive, says Nobel laureate
Another professor caught shilling for China
Yet another American professor has been caught lying to his home university about his work for Chinese research institutions.
Prisons, sports, clothing stores examples of ‘straight and cis privilege,’ says college display
Sports, clothing stores — even prisons — that divide people by sex and gender are examples of “straight and cis privilege,” according to a large-scale display recently presented at Guilford College.
How Google.org accelerates social good with artificial intelligence
After realizing the potential to affect change while studying systems engineering at the University of Virginia, Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink began her journey to discover how technology might have a scalable impact on the world.
In Defense of the ‘Impostor’ Learning Community
An unhappy reader says a recent column cast aspersions on cash-starved colleges trying to do the right thing. Plus: We seek your advice on how we should cover teaching and learning during corona frenzy.
Harvard to move online, tells students to go home
Ohio State University suspended all in-person classes through the end of March
Active learning ‘reduces performance gap’ for minority students
Use of flipped classroom model in STEM courses narrows gap on exam scores and course pass rates, study finds
VCU police reportedly have enough security footage to identify campus newspaper thieves
Campus police at Virginia Commonwealth University allegedly have enough security footage to make a positive identification of campus newspaper thieves there, a week after hundreds of the school’s newspapers were stolen and trashed reportedly by members of the school’s student government.
