Over the past 14 months, Indiana began converting 10,000 acres of corn and bean fields into an innovation park. State leaders met with the chief executives of semiconductor giants in […]
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Back to news homeTexas TikTok Ban Challenged for Threatening ‘Academic Freedom’
A ban of TikTok on state devices and networks in Texas was challenged by First Amendment lawyers on Thursday, who said that the law violated the Constitution by limiting research […]
How to Think About Financial Aid and Paying for College
The Supreme Court decisions that struck down affirmative action programs and President Biden’s student debt cancellation plan will affect millions of people, whether they’re about to apply for college or […]
How Transparency on College Costs Could Increase Diversity
Colleges and universities make applicants get admitted before quoting the price they would actually pay. Until recently, this was merely annoying.Now, it’s glaringly counterproductive to the goal of enrolling freshman […]
U.S. Semiconductor Boom Faces a Worker Shortage
Maxon Wille, an 18-year-old in Surprise, Ariz., was driving toward Interstate 17 last year when he noticed a massive construction site: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company at work on its new […]
Some Colleges Offer Quotes of Competitors’ Prices. Be Wary.
Every year, a new crop of innocents arrive in the marketplace for an undergraduate degree. Very quickly, they get an education in some unwritten rules.Families often don’t pay the listed […]
For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get
The intern selection process underscores longstanding inequities in Silicon Valley recruitment and hiring. This year, layoffs and cutbacks at leading tech companies have only narrowed intern opportunities, students say, exacerbating […]
Colleges Have Been a Small-Town Lifeline. What Happens as They Shrink?
For decades, institutions of higher education provided steady, well-paid jobs in small towns where the industrial base was waning. But the tide of young people finishing high school is now […]
JPMorgan Paid $175 Million for a Business It Now Says Was a Scam
There, she was on financial aid, and she found the forms confusing. So did her parents, according to an interview she gave to Diversity Woman magazine — including her father, […]
Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
While grading essays for his world religions course last month, Antony Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University, read what he said was easily “the best paper in […]