Rick Clark, the executive director of undergraduate admission at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his staff spent weeks this summer pretending to be high school students using A.I. chatbots […]
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Back to news homeWe Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.
A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate.As high school seniors begin working […]
How Schools Can Survive A.I.
Last November, when ChatGPT was released, many schools felt like they’d been hit by an asteroid.In the middle of an academic year, with no warning, teachers were forced to confront […]
Discharging Student Loans in Bankruptcy Show Mixed Results
Alista Lineburg is not a lawyer, but she assumed the role when she couldn’t find one to help her discharge $146,000 of federal student debt in bankruptcy. The process requires […]
As China’s Youth Unemployment Soars, Pressure on Colleges Grows
At this year’s commencement ceremony for the Chongqing Metropolitan College of Science and Technology in southwestern China, the graduating class did not receive the usual lofty message to pursue their […]
Indiana Tests if the Heartland Can Transform Into a Chip Hub
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 […]
Texas 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 […]