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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UPitt RDS | Introducing Our Advisory Board
RDS@Pitt’s mission to foster responsible data science is significantly bolstered by its Advisory Board.
Computational Sciences Pioneer Mary Wheeler Retires
Wheeler's career spanned more than five decades in applied mathematics, computational science and petroleum engineering.
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.
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
NSF invests $2.8M to strengthen technical AI education at two-year institutions | NSF - National Science Foundation
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Expands its AI in Science and Engineering Training Effort to Africa
Nov. 4, 2024 - MIDAS has announced the launch of a new global initiative: the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science African Faculty Fellows Program.