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Report Describes Pandemic Impact on College Choices of the COVID Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now, as the COVID cohort graduates and gets ready for higher education, a new report shows how the pandemic affected their college and career choices, both positively and negatively. There was so much negativity in the world and the focus on social media had become huge because of how lonely we all felt from being isolated.” “The

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USC cancels valedictorian’s speech after alleged antisemitic posts

University Business

In letters sent to USC administrators, critics accused her of posting on a social media account a link to a website that “takes a swinging bat at over 10% of the USC student body and mudslings by calling Zionists `racist-settlers.”‘ ” Read more from CBS News. .”‘ ” Read more from CBS News.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

19, 2023 edition announcing the Emerging Scholars of the Year will be released to Diverse paid subscribers on Jan. We request that news organizations and higher education media outlets do not report this story until that date.

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Microsoft Makes a Major Investment in ChatGPT Tech

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Microsoft has extended an existing partnership with OpenAI, the company behind the much-discussed artificial intelligence-based language processing tool ChatGPT, with an investment that could be worth as much as $10 billion, according to the company and media reports. In a press release issued Jan.

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Undergraduate enrollment climbs for first time since the pandemic, despite freshmen drop-off

University Business

This is good news for community colleges and for the growing numbers of continuing and returning students who had lost momentum from the start of the pandemic,” he said in a press release. “[They] are less expensive, shorter time commitments and perhaps more direct connections to employment.”

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Why is West Virginia University eliminating 9% of its academic programs?

University Business

Per the university’s preliminary recommendations released on Friday, it suggests cutting 32 academic programs, 12 of which are undergraduate majors. It then merged the College of the Creative Arts and Reed College of Media in June of this year. Gordon Gee said in a news release. “We We do not take that lightly.

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How Does U.S. News Rank Colleges?

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

News Best Rankings? News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. News in the hopes of generating more interest from prospective students. News College Rankings The 2022 Best Colleges list reflects nearly 40 years of ranking colleges for U.S. Critics of the U.S.

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