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Explore the Future: Three New MTSU Data Science Courses

Sep 17, 2025 - Data Science at Middle Tennessee State University is thrilled to announce three new courses, each offering unique topics in one of today’s most important and fast-evolving fields.

#MTSU #AI #data science #education #ADSA member

Explore the Future: Three New MTSU Data Science Courses

The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated.

Sep 15, 2025 - For years, only a small portion of the people experiencing long spells of joblessness were college graduates. That’s starting to change.

#higher ed #employment #economy #AI

The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated.

Cal Poly state funding cut by $9.7 million amid statewide budget deficit

Sep 16, 2025 - Cal Poly faces $9.7 million state funding reduction, impacting operations. Tuition increase and deferred funding amidst budget deficit.

#Cal Poly #budget

Cal Poly state funding cut by $9.7 million amid statewide budget deficit

Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announce intent to merge

Sep 17, 2025 - The private North Carolina institutions said the combination would help meet the educational and workforce needs of Charlotte, the state's biggest city.

#Queens University #Elon University #budget

Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announce intent to merge

Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs

Sep 17, 2025 - UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.

#AI #robotics #HCI #UC San Francisco #UC Santa Barbara #UC Davis #biomedical #health #NIH

Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs

Maryville College plans new $80M science center focused on Southern Appalachia

Sep 15, 2025 - Maryville College is planning to build a new 65,000-square-foot science center on campus.

#Maryville College

Maryville College plans new $80M science center focused on Southern Appalachia

Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use

Sep 15, 2025 - Professors at Central Connecticut State University worry that reliance on artificial intelligence tools is already changing student behavior — less thinking abstractly, less engagement and potential cognitive decline.

#Central Connecticut State University #GAI #ChatGPT #education #pedagogy #EdTech

Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use

Anthropic Taps Higher Education Leaders for Guidance on AI

Sep 16, 2025 - The AI company Anthropic has convened two former university presidents, three campus technology leaders and the president of an education nonprofit for an advisory group to inform the company's education-focused tools.

#EdTech #Anthropic #Educause #higher ed #education

Anthropic Taps Higher Education Leaders for Guidance on AI

'Mixed blessing' | Record enrollment at University of Arkansas pressures city's housing demand

Sep 16, 2025 - "They help drive the local culture and local economy, and at the same time, they drive and fuel demand for housing," City Council member Mike Wiederkehr said.

#higher ed #University of Arkansas Fayetteville

'Mixed blessing' | Record enrollment at University of Arkansas pressures city's housing demand

Adult learners need more than tweaks, and here’s how some colleges are stepping up

Sep 16, 2025 - Colleges eager to help adult learners—especially Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Native American adults who have historically been left behind—know this goal requires more than surface-level tweaks. It demands deep, sustained, and mission-driven institutional change.

#DEI #higher ed

Adult learners need more than tweaks, and here’s how some colleges are stepping up

UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement

Sep 16, 2025 - The group will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among UW–Madison’s AI community, which includes the more than 35 new RISE-AI hires and current faculty, staff and students.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #ADSA member #AI

UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement

US faces shortfall of 5.3M college-educated workers by 2032

Sep 16, 2025 - Nursing, teaching and engineering would experience the largest gaps, per a study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.

#higher ed #economy #data #undergrad

US faces shortfall of 5.3M college-educated workers by 2032

UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs

Sp 12, 2025 - Six academic programs would be discontinued: community and regional planning, earth and atmospheric sciences, educational administration, landscape architecture, statistics, and textile, merchandising and fashion design.

#university of nebraska #statistics #budget

UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs

Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review

Sep 13, 2025 - This work highlights successes and challenges of implementing a novel responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) framework for UNC Health

#UNC Chapel Hill #AI #policy #framework

Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review

NC State Data SCience and AI Academy |Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy

Aug 11, 2025 - NC State’s Data Science and AI Academy has secured its first legacy endowment.

#NCSU #ADSA member

NC State Data SCience and AI Academy |Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy

Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab

Sep 12, 2025 - Funded in partnership with the Bank of New York Mellon, the BNY AI Lab will support faculty-led research and comprehensive multi-disciplinary projects as well as mentoring and internship opportunities for students.

#CMU #AI

Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab

Purdue's Industrial Roundtable 2025

Sep 11, 2025 - Industrial Roundtable 2025 wrapped up on Wednesday with more than 400 companies and 16,000 students in attendance.

#partnership #Purdue #career #engineering

Purdue's Industrial Roundtable 2025

UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI

Sep 12, 2025 - UT San Antonio fellow is providing specialized training that empowers community health organizations to make better use of their data.

#UTSA #health #GAI #dssg

UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI

U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems

Sep 11, 2025 - How much faster could engineering progress with an artificial intelligence oracle that could answer any physics question?

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #funding #AI #Department of Energy #physics

U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems

UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements

Sep 10, 2025 - A study published by UC Berkeley researchers used the Reddit forum, r/AmITheAsshole, to determine whether artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbots had “patterns in their moral reasoning.”

#UC Berkeley #AI #ChatGPT #sociotechnical systems

UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements

Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support

Sep 11, 2025 - The grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation, is part of a White House’s AI Action Plan.

#Brown #AI #NSF

Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support

Black, Hispanic student enrollment rises increases at Brown University

Sep 11, 2025 - The class of 2028 saw a significant drop in enrollment of Black and Hispanic students, a trend which appears to be reversing this year.

#Brown #DEI #undergrad #data

Black, Hispanic student enrollment rises increases at Brown University

‘It is a shakedown’: Columbia, Penn, Brown settle with government as peer Ivy League institutions remain in crosshairs

Sep 11, 2025 - In the first eight months of Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has escalated federal scrutiny on dozens of universities across the country, including the eight institutions that make up the Ivy League.

#Columbia College Chicago #UPenn #Brown #Trump

‘It is a shakedown’: Columbia, Penn, Brown settle with government as peer Ivy League institutions remain in crosshairs

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say

Sep 10, 2025 - Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because 'synthetic' data do not contain real or traceable patient information.

#University of Ottawa #University of Washington #data #ethics #data management #biomedical

AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say

U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says

Sep 10, 2025 - The Trump administration wants to capture potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in future upside from the work of scientists.

#Trump #higher ed #intellectual property

U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says

Education Department cancels $350M in grants for minority-serving institutions

Sep 11, 2025 - U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Wednesday decried the funding as promoting "government-mandated racial quotas."

#Department of Education #DEI #MSI #Trump

Education Department cancels $350M in grants for minority-serving institutions

Federal judge declines to restore $1B in grants cut by NSF

Sep 11, 2025 - The lawsuit over the agency’s mass grant terminations will proceed, but plaintiffs will have to seek monetary relief in another court.

#NSF #Trump #DEI #AACU #AAUP

Federal judge declines to restore $1B in grants cut by NSF

National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed

Sep 11, 2025 - By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.

#computing #ADSA member #UC San Diego #NSF

National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed

Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership

Sep 10, 2025 - The University of Utah wants to put another $50 million toward artificial intelligence to speed up cancer research and get possible cures to patients sooner.

#University of Utah #ADSA member #AI #biomedical #Nvidia

Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership

UNC-CH | Percent of Black students enrolled in fall 2025 remains low two years after affirmative action repeal

Sep 9, 2025 - While Black student enrollment has stayed stagnant since last year, the number of Hispanic, Latino or Latina-identifying students has increased from 2023 — the year affirmative action was repealed.

#DEI #UNC Chapel Hill #undergrad #data

UNC-CH | Percent of Black students enrolled in fall 2025 remains low two years after affirmative action repeal