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Higher Ed News Roundup: Key Podcast

Inside Higher Ed

This week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, features a conversation about some of the hottest news developments unfolding in higher education today.

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Higher ed’s guide to the U.S. News rankings drama

Higher Ed Dive

The undergraduate Best Colleges list is due to publish in a couple of months. Where do things stand after colleges’ defections?

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U.S. News escalates battle over rankings, saying ‘elite’ colleges don’t speak for higher ed

Higher Ed Dive

The magazine also wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, a rankings critic, suggesting he require more data from institutions.

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Good news for higher ed: Applications are on the rise for fall 2023

University Business

The post Good news for higher ed: Applications are on the rise for fall 2023 appeared first on University Business. . “The majority of applicants continue to hail from the wealthiest zip codes and test score reporting behaviors have fallen slightly from last season and still vary significantly across demographic subgroups.”

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News Report Documents Conservatives’ Plan to Undermine DEI in Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed

Conservative academics and politicians started organizing a campaign in 2022 to undermine efforts to increase racial diversity in American universities and turn public opinion against these initiatives by convincing policymakers that the efforts are corrupting higher education, according to a New York Times investigation.

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Generative AI vs AI tools in higher education Carlie Rutledge, the Prairie News

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Turnitin has an AI detector embedded in its website to detect when students have used generative AI and/or AI tools. When students submit assignments to Turnitin, the site compares their work to other sources to see how similar it can be. It will produce a similarity grade and alert the professors of this grade.

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Higher Education in the News

Inside Higher Ed

Articles you may have missed over the long Labor Day weekend. Did you know that 37 percent of the Harvard Class of 2025 attended private schools or that the figure at Princeton was 40 percent, at Brown, 41 percent, and at Dartmouth, 44 percent?