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Vanderbilt | Accelerate your AI an “Un-Hackathon”

Vanderbilt University Data Science, AUC Data Science Initiative, and the Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing are collaborating with leading companies to foster innovation and explore ethical AI practices. This ‘un-hackathon’ welcomes all students, regardless of their proficiency in data science

Vanderbilt | Accelerate your AI an “Un-Hackathon”

What one state learned after a decade of free community college

36 states have since followed Tennessee’s lead and offer some version of free tuition to residents. Advocates say the Tennessee Promise scholarship program, which now costs about $29 million a year, has helped more students go to college and earn two-year associate degrees. It remains unclear if increases in associate degrees in Tennessee can be attributed to the free tuition program. Researchers are still crunching the numbers to make causal conclusions, but the signs are positive.

What one state learned after a decade of free community college

Nearly 90 Portland State University faculty face potential layoffs

The public university’s AAUP chapter has criticized leadership for turning to job cuts while spending on construction and has questioned its budget stance.

Nearly 90 Portland State University faculty face potential layoffs

The Harvard Crimson | Class of 2027 By the Numbers

Florida universities are culling hundreds of general education courses

Universities that keep general education courses against recommendations from the Board of Governors run the risk of losing critical state funding.

Florida universities are culling hundreds of general education courses

Western Washington University to nix about 55 jobs amid $18M budget cut

The public institution blamed the structural deficit in part on “lingering pandemic revenue shortfalls,” salary increases and inflation.

Western Washington University to nix about 55 jobs amid $18M budget cut

Congress Is Underfunding Tribal Colleges by $250 Million Per Year

Decades ago, Congress made a commitment to fund a higher education system for Indigenous communities. But a quarter-billion-dollar annual shortfall has led to crimped budgets and crumbling buildings, even as enrollment rises

Congress Is Underfunding Tribal Colleges by $250 Million Per Year

Pioneering Causal AI for Precision Medicine and Beyond

Professor Cai was awarded an NSF grant to design cutting-edge algorithms that automate the analysis of large-scale and heterogeneous text data and develop novel methodologies with solid theoretical properties and efficient algorithms for impactful applications in precision medicine and personalized recommendations.

Pioneering Causal AI for Precision Medicine and Beyond

Local Innovation, Global Impact: Insights from a Visit to the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings should do away with peer assessment

The rankings rely too heavily on feedback from leaders at peer institutions, one administrator argues.

U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings should do away with peer assessment

LSU to further dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs • Louisiana Illuminator

The LSU Board of Supervisors passed a resolution to eliminate some DEI programs in its university system.

LSU to further dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs • Louisiana Illuminator

Colorado State Hosting 'AI and Disinformation' Workshops

Colorado State University's Northeast Colorado Engagement Center is holding a series workshops titled "AI & Disinformation," aimed specifically at seniors but available to anyone.

Colorado State Hosting 'AI and Disinformation' Workshops

AAC&U Launches AI Institute for Pedagogy and Curriculum

The American Association of Colleges and Universities recruited 124 institutions to participate in its Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum, an online program to help educators incorporate AI into their courses.

AAC&U Launches AI Institute for Pedagogy and Curriculum

Getting to know Stanford’s first data science faculty

Two researchers are named as inaugural faculty of Stanford Data Science. Their work spans multiple disciplines but is united by the desire to explore and leverage large volumes of real-world data.

Getting to know Stanford’s first data science faculty

UM-Ann Arbor | Institutional Efforts to Help Academic Researchers Implement Generative AI in Research

May 31, 2024 - Academic institutions and their research organizations must develop new mechanisms to help researchers adopt new technologies, especially those that cause major seismic shifts such as generative AI.

UM-Ann Arbor | Institutional Efforts to Help Academic Researchers Implement Generative AI in Research

UTSA | Enabling Widespread Engagement in DS and AI: The Generation AI Curriculum Initiative for Community Colleges

Mar. 15, 2024 - Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

UTSA | Enabling Widespread Engagement in DS and AI: The Generation AI Curriculum Initiative for Community Colleges

3 Virginia universities face some viability risk

Radford University, University of Mary Washington and Virginia State University have struggled with enrollment or pricing challenges, or both.

3 Virginia universities face some viability risk

AAUP: DEI statements can be valuable to faculty recruiting

The increasing attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts often conflate "institutional values with imposed orthodoxies,” the group said.

AAUP: DEI statements can be valuable to faculty recruiting

University of North Dakota Opens Lab to Build Satellites

The university's new facility includes dedicated lab space for designing and building satellites, a digital engineering lab, and a nanofoundry to develop new materials for satellite construction and quantum computing.

University of North Dakota Opens Lab to Build Satellites

Nvidia Partners With Pitt, Carnegie Mellon for AI Community

Nvidia will work with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh to make Pittsburgh the company's first "AI Tech Community," with joint technology centers focusing on robotics and health sciences.

Nvidia Partners With Pitt, Carnegie Mellon for AI Community

Stanford Researchers Use AI to Simulate Clinical Reasoning

Researchers at Stanford University are designing Clinical Mind AI to be a customizable chatbot that can function as a virtual patient with which medical students can interact and practice forming diagnoses.

Stanford Researchers Use AI to Simulate Clinical Reasoning

Brown | Tech policy fellowship co-led by Brown undergraduate awarded a PIT-UN 2024 Network Challenge grant

Oct. 10, 2024 - The Paragon Policy Fellowship, co-led by Brown senior Jenn Wang and advised by CNTR Director Suresh Venkatasubramanian, connects students to local governments to work on tech policy issues and plans to develop a playbook for building lasting talent pipelines.

Brown | Tech policy fellowship co-led by Brown undergraduate awarded a PIT-UN 2024 Network Challenge grant

UPitt RDS | Introducing Our Advisory Board

RDS@Pitt’s mission to foster responsible data science is significantly bolstered by its Advisory Board.

UPitt RDS | Introducing Our Advisory Board

Computational Sciences Pioneer Mary Wheeler Retires

Wheeler's career spanned more than five decades in applied mathematics, computational science and petroleum engineering.

Computational Sciences Pioneer Mary Wheeler Retires

Free community college in Massachusetts expected to draw 45,000 students within a year

The new free community college policy is proving to be popular in Massachusetts.

Free community college in Massachusetts expected to draw 45,000 students within a year

Erickson steps down, Arpaci-Dusseau to lead School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences

University of Pittsburg Data Science, BS | Dietrich Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Studies 2024-25

Program: Data Science, B.S. - University of Virginia - Modern Campus Catalog 2024-25

Data Science Major, B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Data Science Major, B.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill