Admissions offices are slowly integrating generative AI into their tool boxes to manage ballooning application pools while also easing staff burnout and other workload issues. The post Admissions workloads are enormous. Here is how AI can help appeared first on University Business ..read more

Four schools created a new Transfer Hub aimed at helping more students earn degrees. The post Transferring college credits could get easier with new North Texas partnership appeared first on University Business ..read more

On July 19, Pennsylvania State University announced it had received a $20 million commitment from J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox for its graduate school, the largest gift in the grad school’s history. The post Historic $20 million gifts to Penn State, Paul Quinn College, U. of Oklahoma appeared first on University Business ..read more

One college has 38 athletes competing for the United States in the 2024 Olympics. The post 2024 Olympics: Which colleges have the most U.S. athletes in Paris? appeared first on University Business ..read more

David A. Thomas will leave Morehouse College having increased applications from high-achieving students and raised more funds than any of the school's previous leaders. In other moves, Berklee College of Music has picked it next president. The post President Moves: Morehouse’s ‘record-breaking’ leader announces retirement appeared first on University Business ..read more

More than 100 first-generation college students moved into their new dorms this month at Messina College, a new school run by Boston College that aims to help underprivileged students access college degrees. “This has been long in our history. Working with first-gen and also immigrant students, often with high financial need, was even the very foundation of Boston College,” founding Dean Erick Berrelleza said. The school, located in Brookline, offers two-year associate’s degrees in four fields: applied data science, health sciences, general business, and applied psychology and human developmen ..read more

Like many schools, Bondurant-Farrar High School has a bulletin board set up every spring for seniors to announce their plans for after graduation. While some students were headed to out-of-state colleges or directly into the workforce through a trade, half of the board was dominated by cards signaling one of Iowa’s public universities as students’ next step. Maggie Bruce’s card shared the same future as around a quarter of the board — DMACC. The recent graduate said the decision to attend the community college this fall came down to cost effectiveness, support from faculty and staff and the id ..read more

Savannah Hunsucker didn’t have a college counselor to talk to at her rural high school outside Wichita, Kansas. She didn’t know if her grades were good enough to get into the academically rigorous universities she was interested in. Few recruiters visited her school and she couldn’t travel to the universities she was interested in, so she leaned on Google searches to prepare her college applications. “To have college [recruiters] come out and tell us about their school, even for schools that were local — that was pretty rare,” said Hunsucker, who is now a rising junior at Southern Methodist Un ..read more

It’s been an unpredictable month in the world of politics. For college leaders, the one piece of news that might be most relevant is the possibility of a Kamala Harris presidency after President Joe Biden announced the end of his 2024 bid. How might Harris approach higher education if she wins this year’s election? Who is Kamala Harris? The Biden-Harris administration has strengthened Title IX and championed student loan forgiveness. Now, Harris is gaining support from prominent education figures even in the short time she has been the presumptive Democratic nominee. Most recently, the nation ..read more

The proliferation of AI innovations in higher education presents significant benefits for improved efficiency and enhanced learning opportunities, such as improved experiential learning, personalized assistance or tutoring for students and making complex subjects more accessible, among other advantages. However, with reward comes risk. AI raises concerns about data privacy, students and employees being subject to discrimination or bias, and uncertain legal and regulatory environments for colleges and universities. AI’s evolving legal and regulatory environment The legal and regulatory environm ..read more