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Good! The #NCAA policy allowing payments to ‘student-athletes’ - even *retroactively*! - will ‘kill-off’ #college and #university #sports programs that hemorrhage ‘red ink’.
#HigherEd institutions should focus on their #traditional mission of #teaching , #research and #service.
#China's tech firms #block #AI access during high-stakes #college entrance exams
Source: businessinsider.com/china-disa…
#China may be pushing #AI #education, but it's drawing the line at students using it to #cheat on tests.
This is total #nonsense, because a meaningful test would check whether the students can use AI in a meaningful way in the exam. You can test whether they can recognize hallucinations and prompt them in a meaningful way. Good teachers could also ask questions where AI doesn't help, where you have to interpret ethically, for example. But where can you find good teachers in today's education system?
#education #fail #problem #technology #exam #test #students #future #news #internet #school #university #teacher
China's tech firms disable AI functions during college entrance exams
AI chatbots from Tencent, ByteDance, and Moonshot AI disabled features like photo recognition and real-time question answering during the exam period.Lee Chong Ming (Business Insider)
In a letter that day, Noem accused #Harvard of refusing to comply w/wide-ranging requests for information on its #StudentVisa holders…. [Though she cited no law or regulation that the university had violated]
Harvard, the nation's oldest & wealthiest #university, enrolled nearly 6,800 #InternationalStudents in its current school year, ~27% of its total enrollment.
#Trump #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics #idiocracy #BrainDrain
The case before Judge Burroughs was filed after #KristiNoem revoked #Harvard's #SEVP certification to enroll non-US #students.
In announcing the decision, Noem, without providing #evidence, accused the #university of "fostering violence, antisemitism, & coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." [#FigLeaf]
#Trump #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics #idiocracy #BrainDrain
The #university's lawyers argued #DHS's action was part of an "unprecedented & retaliatory attack on #AcademicFreedom at #Harvard," which is pursuing a separate lawsuit challenging the admin's decision to terminate nearly $3B in federal #research #funding.
Harvard argues the #Trump admin is retaliating against it for refusing to accede to its demands to control the school's #governance, #curriculum & the #ideology of its #faculty & #students.
Louise Fraser has become the oldest person ever to graduate from the University of Saskatchewan's Indian Teacher Education Program. She hopes to teach Cree language after completing the four-year program.
#education #university #graduation #indigenous #Saskatchewan
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#HarvardUniversity sued the #Trump admin on Friday, <24hrs after #DHS said it would block #international #students from attending the nation’s oldest #university & one of its most prestigious.
#InternationalStudents #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harv…
The #Trump admin notified #Harvard about the decision after a back-&-forth in recent days over the legality of a sprawling records request as part of the #DHS’s investigation, acc/to 3 people w/knowledge of negotiations.
“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, #HarvardUniversity’s Student & Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” acc/to a letter sent to the #university by DHS Secy #KristiNoem. A copy of the letter was obtained by NYT.
