Students and staff question UMich AI investments
Over 50 University of Michigan students, staff and community members attended a hybrid workshop about artificial intelligence’s current impact
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UVA Wise receives $11.2 million from Bill Gatton Foundation
Nov. 7, 2024 - UVA Wise receives $11.2 million from Bill Gatton Foundation. It's the largest gift in University of Virginia’s College at Wise’s history.
Penn State Behrend Awarded $6.5M for High-Tech Manufacturing
Nov. 6, 2024 - A state grant will support the Center for Manufacturing Competitiveness, a research facility that will accommodate the nation’s first heavy-haul battery testing for the rail, marine and mining industries.
UC San Diego Launches Data-Sharing Resource for Wildfire Research
A new data-sharing platform at UC San Diego will bring the latest research and technology on wildfire ecology into one place, allowing researchers, government officials and other experts to collaborate on solutions.
Statistics and Biostatistics Degree Data | ASA
Number of Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees Awarded for Statistics and Biostatistics back to 1987
UW-Madison | MadPrompts 2024 highlights generative AI during Wisconsin Science Festival
Nov. 7, 2024 - Following the success of MadPrompts 2023, the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt battle on an American university campus, WARF and the UW-Madison DSI hosted MadPrompts 2024 on Oct. 18 in the Discovery Building’s H.F. DeLuca Forum.
Texas State University Adds 18 New Online Programs
Oct. 1, 2024 - Texas State University partnered with the ed-tech company Risepoint to offer more bachelor's and master's degree programs in high-demand fields, part of a national trend of moving classes online to attract more students.
University of Akron braces for workforce cuts
Nov. 5, 2024 - The public Ohio institution’s president said that rising expenses and cuts in state appropriations have weighed on its budget.
California State University pilots direct admissions program
Nov. 5, 2024 - The 461,000-student system will inform certain public high school students in Riverside County that they’ve been automatically accepted to 10 campuses.
Central Connecticut State's 'AI Corridor' Features Holograms, Robots
CCSU is the first university in the U.S. to work with AI companies on developing a holographic synthetic human, and the first to integrate it alongside students and faculty.
Midland College, Texas, Stays Flexible for Workforce Education
Nov. 5, 2024 - With a division dedicated to workforce education and continuing education, a public community college in Texas can tailor programs to the specific needs of local businesses, and adjust formats to the needs of students.
Diversity in Backgrounds, Careers a Major Theme in Survey of Master’s Graduates | Amstat News
The 2023 statistics and biostatistics master’s graduates who responded to the ASA follow-up survey in spring 2024 came to their graduate program with undergraduate majors in 45 fields and then—in an embodiment of John Tukey’s quote, “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard”—diverged into careers and studies in a variety of sectors, regions, and fields.
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
States are taking on fewer college costs. Who is picking up the bill?
The gap between what states and students pay toward higher ed shrunk from 2008 to 2022, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association found.
Harris vows to nix ‘unnecessary degree requirements’ for federal jobs on Day 1
Both the vice president and former President Donald Trump have expressed support for alternatives to college.
More than half of UConn academic programs at risk of being slashed
Roughly 240 undergraduate, doctoral, master’s and graduate certificate programs — more than half of UConn’s academic offerings — could be on the university’s chopping block after meeting the provost’s office criteria for a low enrollment program.
New College Board report shows tuition across most colleges is down
Public university tuition has dropped 40% over the last decade.
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Vanderbilt | Transforming Automotive Insights: The Nissan-Vanderbilt Collaboration
Oct. 24, 2024 - The Nissan-Vanderbilt Collaboration Innovation in Automotive Design Vanderbilt Data Science is excited to spotlight an innovative collaboration between Nissan and our dedicated Data Science students, focused on developing an AI chatbot that embodies diverse customer personas.
Penn Engineering Launches Responsible Innovation Initiative - Penn Engineering Blog
Penn Engineering has launched a new initiative to promote the responsible development of new technologies like artificial intelligence.
NJIT | Research Team Innovates in Princeton FlyWire Codex Challenge
Oct. 30, 2024 - An NJIT computational research team, led by David Bader, made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge.
Howard U. Expects to Be Classified as R1, Making It the Only HBCU With Such Status
Jim Crow laws severely restricted HBCUs’ ability to build graduate programs, limiting the number of Black people with graduate degrees and the amount of research on Black communities.
Who's really in charge of our universities?
As state and federal funding shrinks and schools depend more heavily on private donations, colleges are navigating an erupting tension between upholding principles of academia and making their billionaire donors happy.
UMass schools to offer free tuition for low-income students starting fall 2025
Amid competition from free community colleges, UMass schools will waive tuition and fees for in-state students from families earning $75,000 or less.
State universities reallocate more than $2 million from DEI programs • Iowa Capital Dispatch
The Iowa Board of Regents will receive details of universities' efforts to comply with state law banning certain DEI offices.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Annual Data Science & AI Summit x ADSA Conference
The ‘24 Summit is partnered with the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Annual Meeting to bring national leaders in data science and AI research and education to the Summit.
How publicly traded higher education companies are performing
Enrollment ticked up at Adtalem's colleges, while MOOC provider Udemy reported growth in its enterprise segment.
Ohio’s Central State University placed under fiscal watch
Although enrollment remains strong, the historically Black institution has struggled with rising costs and the end of federal pandemic relief funds.