Higher education

Higher education

If you thought it was hard to get in to a T14 as a student, imagine the uphill battle you'd be facing if you were selling them software! Most law schools are so conservative in their approach to teaching devices that their only student-focused large language model is the Bluebook. Despite the challenges, Harvey convinced Stanford, UCLA, NYU and Notre Dame to adopt the AI in order to experiment with their students keep generations of future lawyers on the cutting edge of legal tech.

I met every requirement, yet my name is missing from evacuation lists. Delays and opaque rules mean students like me face losing scholarships and futures as bombs fall and deadlines pass. On September 17, 34 students were evacuated from Gaza to the United Kingdom to begin their studies. Many of them had applied for their visas after I applied for mine. Yet, when I received the news of their exit, I felt joy and peace for them.

Steve Goodman had just completed a three-page referee's letter for an academic colleague who was going for promotion in a law department, when he received a bundle of papers that surprised him. The package contained the recommendation letters of other referees. "They were eight to ten pages long," he says, adding that he had never seen letters like these before.

The shooting, which also resulted in serious injuries to two others, took place early Saturday morning on the college town's main street. One individual, not from the city, got into a verbal dispute and then opened fire toward the people he was confronting. The three individuals he hit, however, were bystanders. In a letter sent the same day as the shooting, Choi called on city and county leaders to bolster the police presence and prosecute crimes to the fullest extent of the law.

Before the training, my instinct was to say, Oh, you disagree with me? I'm going to prove you wrong with hardcore facts that you can't dispute,' but I learned to step back from that emotion, Jeremiah says. Being right might give you a little self-gratification, but it doesn't necessarily solve the issue if you're just making the other person feel defensive. Jeremiah's reflection captures the promise of promoting constructive dialogue at a university as vast and diverse as CUNY.

Call it the "college or Chipotle" dilemma: Ted Dintersmith says schools are giving students two bad options - overpriced degrees or low-wage work - while AI is taking over the real jobs in between. Dintersmith, a former venture capitalist turned education reformer who has toured classrooms in all 50 states, said the US education system is "not just outdated, it's harmful."

The e-learning developer 1 plays a central role in this effort by collaborating with instructional designers, faculty and staff to design and deliver high-quality courses that meet compliance requirements and research-based standards. Beyond content development, the role supports faculty growth and creates opportunities to integrate new technologies, experiment with innovative solutions and strengthen both teaching and learning. This work ensures that students benefit from inclusive, engaging and flexible educational experiences in an evolving digital environment.

At least five tenured faculty members have been terminated or put on leave over comments they made on social media following the killing of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. As tenured professors, in theory they should have some of the strongest job security protections in the country, especially when it comes to freedom of expression. But the speed with which they were punished for their speech suggests an erosion of tenure protections years in the making.

Harvard has not adjusted the proportion of healthcare costs paid by Harvard and the employee for 10 years, despite rapidly rising healthcare costs. Therefore, after a series of conversations with the community and recommendations to University leaders, we are beginning the process of making modest adjustments to co-payments (co-pays) and deductibles on a more regular basis. These adjustments will help make sure that the proportion of costs paid for by Harvard

"Hateful and discriminatory language has no home in the Big 12 Conference," league commissioner Brett Yormark said Tuesday in a statement. "While we appreciate Colorado apologizing for the chants that occurred in the stands during Saturday's game, the Big 12 maintains zero tolerance for such behavior." "We denounce all forms of religious discrimination & appreciate @CUBoulder's example in rooting out these inappropriate actions. We invite all to showcase their fandom with enthusiasm & respect."

To qualify for an H-1B visa, a worker must be employed in a "speciality occupation," meaning it requires "highly specialized knowledge," and have at least a bachelor's degree that's related to their specialty, according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. The professional, scientific and technical services sector, which includes computer services and engineering, has the most H-1B visas so far in fiscal year 2025 at 129,007.

Longtime readers know that here I refer to my daughter as The Girl. It's a way to prevent my stories about her from coming up as the first responses when employers google her. (When she was little, it was also about protecting her.) She's 21 now, and a senior in college, so the name doesn't fit quite as well. But habits die hard.

Sharing engaging and creative teaching experiences and how they impact students in a course is the goal of the Center for Teaching Innovation's " What Works: Creating Engaging Learning Experiences," a teaching showcase featuring faculty presentations and poster sessions. "What Works" will be held from 1-4 p.m. Oct. 1 in Rm. G10, Biotechnology Building, with an additional poster session from 4-5 p.m. The event is open to Cornell faculty, teaching staff and postdoctoral scholars and associates.

The Robert Day Sciences Center has opened at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) as the first built project of the school's Roberts Campus masterplan. At 135,000 square feet, the new building extends the campus's north mall toward Ninth Street and Claremont Boulevard, forming a major gateway to the college and supporting a multidisciplinary approach to science and technology.

The University of Arizona is quietly shutting down its four microcampuses in China at the end of this semester, in response to a government report released earlier this month that criticizes branch campuses of U.S. institutions in China.

A new report from the Center for American Progress and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund shows that historically Black colleges and universities receive a disproportionately low percentage of federal research and development funding. While HBCUs make up roughly 3 percent of all four-year higher ed institutions, they've received less than 3 percent of R&D funding since at least 2010, according to the report. In recent years, between 2018 and 2023, they were awarded less than 1 percent of R&D expenditures.

Many bachelor's-granting institutions seek to recruit Maricopa students, but these institutions often fall short in serving them effectively by not applying previously earned coursework, overlooking their specific needs or failing to accept credit for prior learning in transfer. After years of requesting changes from transfer partners without seeing adequate response, Maricopa Community Colleges determined it was time to take action by establishing clear criteria and an evaluation process.

The Jacobs Institute Steering Committee guides the strategic direction of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a cornerstone of Cornell Tech's mission to fuse academic excellence with real-world impact through programs in health tech, urban tech, and connective media, as well as startup incubation, facilitated by the Runway program. These accomplished leaders bring deep expertise in cloud computing, urban development, financial technology, and venture capital - fields that are shaping the future of digital life.

Interestingly, given this is an administration that has said they don't want race to be a factor in decision-making, they want to count up all the admissions decisions and disaggregate by race to see how that is all working out,

Avner Arbel, an influential thought leader and visionary scholar in hospitality research and education and an emeritus professor of financial management in the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration, died Aug. 22 in Jupiter, Florida. He was 90. Arbel joined the School of Hotel Administration as a professor of financial management in 1982, after receiving his MBA and Ph.D. from New York University.

In June, in an escalation of the Trump administration's pressure on Harvard University to bow to its demands, a federal Office for Civil Rights announced that the institution was violating federal law. The office released a nearly 60-page report accusing Harvard of "deliberate indifference" to ongoing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students, which is illegal under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

When the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action, it included some words of comfort for Americans worried about declining diversity at the nation's most selective universities. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in the 2023 case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, described the goal of creating a diverse student body as "commendable" and "worthy." He wrote that universities could still consider applicants' stories of how race had affected their lives.