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A longtime faculty member at the medical school is being threatened with termination after interviews he gave to CNN and The New York Times. A Mayo Clinic medical school department chair, in a letter a free speech group shared online, threatened to fire a professor after a CNN interview in which he criticized the National Institutes of Health for not backing a COVID-19 treatment and after a New York Times interview where he suggested testosterone improves athletic performance.

Tennessee Tech University established a partnership with a local environmental cleanup organization focused on career-readiness for engineering students to work in western Tennessee. Starting in fall 2024, Tennessee Tech University will offer a nuclear engineering major for students looking to work in the nuclear energy industry. Local contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) is supporting the launch of the program, which establishes a formal talent pipeline between the two groups and aims to ...

State legislation to improve transparency about the cost of a degree has earned bipartisan support. Some worry about political motives and unintended consequences. The Ohio State House of Representatives passed a higher education bill last week to ensure that colleges are transparent in their communications about the cost of their degree programs and the returns their graduates can expect on that investment.

ChatGPT and other generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools appear to be on track to reshape the landscape of higher education, and universities across the country are scrambling to adjust to the changes that are coming. Portland State isn’t immune to the challenges—and opportunities—that AI too

Legislators approved a 2% teacher pay increase.

The technology promises to assist students with disadvantages in developing skills needed for success. But AI also threatens to widen the education gap like no tech before it. When it comes to artificial intelligence, faculty members across disciplines have had a demanding year. Many have redesigned assignments and developed new course policies in the presence of generative AI tools. At conferences and in idle moments, some have pondered what makes prose human.

Relationship between disgraced financier and small liberal arts school highlights need for gift-acceptance policies