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How Universities Can Prepare Graduates for an AI-Driven World

How Universities Can Prepare Graduates for an AI-Driven World

March 11, 2024

Nido Qubein, president of High Point University (NC), writes:  When the AI-powered ChatGPT made its big debut, higher education leaders naturally questioned how their students would use high-tech tools like it to write essays and research papers for class. Just a short time later, we know that’s only a microscopic way that AI is impacting higher education. There’s a bigger question that universities should answer: How can we help students succeed and lead in a complex, AI-powered world after graduation? I believe the answer is life skills — the kind that outlast and extend beyond inevitable technological changes. We should stop fearing AI and instead teach students to be resilient, self-reliant, compassionate and capable of sound judgment.
Nido Qubein, president of High Point University (NC), writes:  When the AI-powered ChatGPT made its big debut, higher education leaders naturally questioned how their students would use high-tech tools like it to write essays and research papers for class. Just a short time later, we know that’s only a microscopic way that AI is impacting higher education. There’s a bigger question that universities should answer: How can we help students succeed and lead in a complex, AI-powered world after graduation? I believe the answer is life skills — the kind that outlast and extend beyond inevitable technological changes. We should stop fearing AI and instead teach students to be resilient, self-reliant, compassionate and capable of sound judgment.

March 11, 2024

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard

Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard

January 05, 2024

Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, writes:  Last month the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were summoned to appear before a congressional committee. For five hours, they were subjected to withering interrogation about the response of their universities to the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students following the massacre of 1,200 people in Israel and the subsequent invasion of Gaza. In response to repeated questions about how their universities would deal with students calling for “intifada” or chanting “from the river to the sea,” the answers the presidents gave in seeking to explain the intricacies of the First Amendment provoked an angry response from several members of the committee for being too legalistic and even calls by a few for the presidents to resign.
 
Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, writes:  Last month the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were summoned to appear before a congressional committee. For five hours, they were subjected to withering interrogation about the response of their universities to the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students following the massacre of 1,200 people in Israel and the subsequent invasion of Gaza. In response to repeated questions about how their universities would deal with students calling for “intifada” or chanting “from the river to the sea,” the answers the presidents gave in seeking to explain the intricacies of the First Amendment provoked an angry response from several members of the committee for being too legalistic and even calls by a few for the presidents to resign.
 

January 05, 2024

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The New York Times

What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me

What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me

January 04, 2024

Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, wrote: On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I’ve devoted my professional life have been under attack. My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My inbox has been flooded with invective, including death threats. I’ve been called the N-word more times than I care to count.
Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, wrote: On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard’s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I’ve devoted my professional life have been under attack. My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned. My inbox has been flooded with invective, including death threats. I’ve been called the N-word more times than I care to count.

January 04, 2024

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Trinity Washington University

3 Presidents Walk Into a Trap and We All Suffer

3 Presidents Walk Into a Trap and We All Suffer

December 12, 2023

Patricia A. McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, writes:  Genocide is pure evil.
Advocacy for genocide is complicit with evil. Advocacy for genocide is not protected speech. Fight me.
Three university presidents went up to the Hill and fell into a trap.  They took books to a knife fight.  Confronted by the worst forms of anti-intellectual bullying by manipulative politicians, they responded as intellectuals, much to their sorrow.  The result was a debacle for them, for their universities, for higher education and for our nation.
Patricia A. McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, writes:  Genocide is pure evil.
Advocacy for genocide is complicit with evil. Advocacy for genocide is not protected speech. Fight me.
Three university presidents went up to the Hill and fell into a trap.  They took books to a knife fight.  Confronted by the worst forms of anti-intellectual bullying by manipulative politicians, they responded as intellectuals, much to their sorrow.  The result was a debacle for them, for their universities, for higher education and for our nation.

December 12, 2023

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Times Dispatch, Richmond, VA

Virginia Is Lagging in University-Level Research. Investing in Private Colleges Can Change That

Virginia Is Lagging in University-Level Research. Investing in Priv...

December 01, 2023

Irma Becerra, president of Marymount University, and Christopher K. Peace, president of Virginia Private Colleges, write:  Virginia's educational landscape is hampered by not having private universities classified as R1 or R2, designations indicating high levels of research activity. This situation places the responsibility for advanced research and the production of doctorates solely on its public universities, creating the need for a balanced approach that includes private research universities.Private colleges and universities in Virginia, each with unique educational attributes, play vital roles in the state's workforce development and talent creation. 
Irma Becerra, president of Marymount University, and Christopher K. Peace, president of Virginia Private Colleges, write:  Virginia's educational landscape is hampered by not having private universities classified as R1 or R2, designations indicating high levels of research activity. This situation places the responsibility for advanced research and the production of doctorates solely on its public universities, creating the need for a balanced approach that includes private research universities.Private colleges and universities in Virginia, each with unique educational attributes, play vital roles in the state's workforce development and talent creation. 

December 01, 2023

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