3 charts that tell the story of spring 2025 enrollment
Jul 7, 2025 - Recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed which cohorts are driving the sector's slow-moving recovery from the pandemic.
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Making the Case for the CS Degree in the Age of Artificial Intelligence » CCC Blog
Jul 3, 2025 - Boise State University Associate Professor Casey Kennington's recent article draws directly from The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models
This AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies
Jul 2, 2025 - The Centaur model goes beyond single tasks and predicts a wide array of human behaviour.
Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year
Jul 2, 2025 - Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large language models.
MSU to begin layoffs due to increasing costs and uncertain state and federal funding
Jul 1, 2025 - The layoffs are part of a larger plan to reduce general fund spending by 9% over the next two years.
Yale pauses hiring, tightens budget in anticipation of endowment tax hike
Jul 1, 2025 - The University will implement a 90-day hiring pause alongside other financial constraints as it navigates financial uncertainty in anticipation of a potential increase in the endowment gains tax.
NIH makes taxpayer-funded studies public
Jul 3, 2025 - It's the latest move by the Trump administration to challenge the scientific publishing industry.
Appalachian State University Develops AI-Driven Robotic Microscope
Jul 1, 2025 - Researchers used a $2.3 million grant from NCInnovation, which supports commercializing research discoveries, to develop a robotic microscope to help farmers find and count animal parasites.
Indiana public colleges to shed or consolidate over 400 degree programs
Jul 2, 2025 - The dramatic restructuring comes in response to a statute that aims to end programs that produce low numbers of graduates over a three-year period.
Columbia University formally notified its accreditation "may be in jeopardy."
Jul 1, 2025 - This comes on the heels of the Education Department claiming the university had violated antidiscrimination laws.
Chris Kanich earns highest UIC teaching honor
Jun 25, 2025 - Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Chris Kanich received UIC’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2025-2026.
Georgetown's MDI is Hiring: Fall 2025 MDI Scholars
Jul 1, 2025 - A call for applications for the Fall 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program
2024-2025 Digital Accessibility Fellows Champion Access and Inclusion at UC Irvine
Jun 27, 2025 - To enhance the culture of digital accessibility across campus, associate professor of Informatics Stacy Branham partnered with UC Irvine’s Information
Emory | When talking about AI, definitions matter
Jun 25, 2025 - In this Q&A, Joe Sutherland, director of the Center for AI Learning, answers common questions about artificial general intelligence and what it means for our future.
UW eScience Staff Spotlight: Bryna Hazelton
Jun 26, 2025 - Bryna Hazelton is the Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Scientist.
Conversation at UC Berkeley workshop shares perspectives on AI and humanity
Jun 30, 2025 - A recent discussion at the National Workshop on Data Science Education illustrated the value of open conversation about the impact of AI on humanity.
UNC-CH SDSS Faculty Member Alex McAvoy builds bridges between AI and population dynamics in special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Jun 27, 2025 - his special feature presents nine articles that explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, evolutionary dynamics and game theory.
UVA SDS | Courtney Hodge discusses how data science is helping realtors on CBS19's ‘Inside The Numbers’
Jun 27, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science graduate Courtney Hodge discusses data science and its importance in the real estate industry on this month's "Inside the Numbers."
UVA SDS | Jonathan Swap discusses capstone on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’
Jun 27, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science graduate Jonathan Swap discussed his capstone, "Detecting Temporal Anomalies in Multispectral Satellite Imagery," on "Inside the Numbers."
UChicago's Hank Snowdon Took a Swing at Data Science and Landed in the MLB
Jul 1, 2025 - After graduating from the MS in Applied Data Science program in Dec. 2024, Hank Snowdon packed his bags and headed west, joining the Seattle Mariners as a data scientist.
U-M Ann Arbor | Yeyuan Chen wins Best Student Paper Award at STOC 2025
Jun 25, 2025- His winning paper, coauthored with Zihan Zhang from Ohio State University, is titled “Explicit Folded Reed-Solomon and Multiplicity Codes Achieve Relaxed Generalized Singleton Bounds.”
UPenn Engineering Impact of Research
Jun 30, 2025 - Each day, in every school at Penn, researchers are making strides to cure diseases, improve lives, and better understand our world.
The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France
Jul 1, 2025 - Aix-Marseille University is wooing researchers who feel targeted by the Trump administration.
Sluggishness and defensiveness helped enable an executive order on research integrity
Jun 24, 2025 - The scientific community has largely reacted negatively to the directive, fearing that the way oversight by political appointees is specified in the order will lead to interference in the curiosity-driven process of science.
Why the traditional college major may be holding students back in a rapidly changing job market
Jun 30, 2025 - A scholar and former college dean explains why higher education’s reliance on majors to measure academic quality may be an outdated approach.
HHS accuses Harvard of violating antidiscrimination law after antisemitism probe
Jul 1, 2025 - The latest salvo from the Trump administration threatens "the loss of all federal financial resources.”
Brown University preps for ‘significant cost-cutting’ amid federal funding disruption
Jun 30, 2025 - The Ivy League institution's top officials signaled possible staff reductions along with scaled back capital spending and other measures.
Wake up call for AI: computer-vision research increasingly used for surveillance
Jun 25, 2025 - One analysis suggests that 90% of studies in the field involve data relating to humans.
NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal
Jun 30, 2025 - Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant materials despite court order.
If AI can do your classwork, why go to college?
Jun 30, 2025 - How students are using AI to finish their assignments, how colleges are (and aren’t) responding to these challenges, and whether you can learn to think when something else does the thinking for you.