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A new report on faculty representation sheds light on the wide-ranging effects of pervasive inequities.

Whether they major in creative writing, fine arts, film or virtual reality development, students at the Ringling College of Art and Design can add an AI certificate and develop a project portfolio for job searches.

The Phoenix-based Canyon GBS’ first community college client is Joliet Junior College in Illinois, which intends to launch an enterprise AI assistant for a variety of instructional and administrative purposes.

The Ohio community college faces a reported $6.8 million deficit and has cut 14 positions as it realigns resources.

This marks the 11th year in a row for appropriations increases, according to an annual report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

A growing number of students and working professionals are returning to school to learn about artificial intelligence, hoping to cash in on the buzzy market and millions of dollars in support from large tech companies.

The University of Texas at Austin is working with the AI-powered writing assistant platform Grammarly for Education to study what generative artificial intelligence tools might do for academia.

The finance software company Sage made donations to the HBCU Morehouse College and its Center for Broadening Participation in Computing in support of classes in artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship.

Nature - An analysis of the academic employment and doctoral education of faculty members at all PhD-granting US universities from 2011 to 2020 shows that a small minority of universities (20.4%)...

Responding to critics, the publication made its biggest changes to its method in four decades. But it’s unclear whether that is enough to quiet the naysayers.

They’re anxious about an uncertain future that is beyond their control.

We introduce a new survey of professors at roughly 150 of the most research-intensive institutions of higher education in the US. We document seven new features of how research-active professors are compensated, how they spend their time, and how they perceive their research pursuits: (1) there is more inequality in earnings within fields than there is across fields; (2) institutions, ranks, tasks, and sources of earnings can account for roughly half of the total variation in earnings; (3) there is significant variation across fields in the correlations between earnings and different kinds of research output, but these account for a small amount of earnings variation; (4) measuring professors' productivity in terms of output-per-year versus output-per-research-hour can yield substantial differences; (5) professors' beliefs about the riskiness of their research are best predicted by their fundraising intensity, their risk-aversion in their personal lives, and the degree to which their research involves generating new hypotheses; (6) older and younger professors have very different research outputs and time allocations, but their intended audiences are quite similar; (7) personal risk-taking is highly predictive of professors' orientation towards applied, commercially-relevant research.

Workers are interested in applying new tech skills, as well as developing “human” skills that AI can’t replace, according to the learning platform.

Most University-OPM partnerships are with small institutions and involve relatively modest amounts of money

CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we are recapping each session. This week, we will summarize the highlights of the session, “How Big Trends in Computing are Shaping Science.” In Part 1, we will hear from Dr. Neil Thompson, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will explain the computing trends shaping the future of science, and why they will impact nearly all areas of scientific discovery.   CCC’s third AAAS panel of the 2024 annual meeting took place on Saturday, February 17th, on the last day of the conference. The panel, comprised Jayson Lynch […]

The rural institution will leave nearly two dozen jobs unfilled, cut a handful of staff and raise tuition.

Dozens of two-year colleges have started data science and analytics programs, with many offering degrees or certificates. Learn about the County College of Morris, Wake Tech, Montgomery College, and College of DuPage here.

With help from a $1 million donation from Google, an all-male historically Black college in Georgia set up a new multipurpose space to serve as a classroom and collaborative computer lab for students and researchers.

Although the two sites together enrolled around 5,500 students at their peak, they hosted just one class between them this semester.

Looking at state-level and city-level application and completion data for new FAFSA