The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Essay from The Review: Mark Rivett's decision to attend the Art Institute of Pittsburgh was based on fraud. His education did not open the opportunities that college promised but burdened him with debt. "It wasn’t just the money that was stolen from me — it was time," he writes. "And I am one of the lucky ones."

Many athletes headed to the Paris Olympics received much of their coaching and experience playing sports on American campuses. Colleges have been a major training ground for elite athletes for decades — much of it funded by college football revenue. With new changes that would allocate more money directly to football and basketball athletes, other sports — like swimming, field hockey, and tennis — might be on the chopping block. So how can these sports get funding to continue to create Olympians? “The will is there, the money is not,” said Jack Swarbrick, the recently retired vice president and director of athletics at the University of Notre Dame, which sponsors some two dozen sports. “So it’s going to take creativity.”

As higher education struggles with the emergence of #AI, Morehouse College is taking a different approach: Using a "digital mini-me" of professors to help support learning. These AI TAs — which resemble the instructors in physical appearance and demeanor — exist in a digital classroom. There, it can reteach students lessons when they miss class, answer questions, and use images and 3-D models to explain complex ideas. The hope is these AI TAs can offer students a low-pressure environment to ask questions, without fear of embarrassment or wasting class time. This isn't Morehouse's first foray into computer-generated classrooms; The college has “metaversities,” digital recreations of campuses and classrooms where students attend classes through virtual-reality headsets. These AI TAs are separate from that, accessible through an internet browser. However, some experts still worry about how accessible these AI TAs might be. “Students need to ask good questions and the AI needs to give good answers,” one said. “A lot of the other stuff is just window dressing.” https://chroni.cl/3Wh46an

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Attempts to regulate how online-program managers work with colleges have, to date, been largely stymied. So how did Minnesota succeed? We chatted with the lead legislator shortly after the law went into effect.

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Opinion: It’s not enough for colleges merely to transfer knowledge and skills to AI’s future programmers and stewards. Colleges have a pivotal role to play in preparing all students for life with AI, and advancing human well-being in a digital world.

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