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Protecting Your Campus in the AI Era From deepfakes that use professors’ voices to chatbots that turn against students with the very information they’ve provided, higher ed is increasingly vulnerable to nefarious, AI-powered cyberattacks...

My latest article for The Chronicle of Higher Ed - a look at AI and cybersecurity. Turns out profs are particularly prone to deepfake attacks because they often have samples of their image and voice on YouTube clips of them giving talks or online lecture videos.

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Your Campus Already Has AI—And That's the Problem If you teach on a college campus, you likely have access to a slew of generative AI tools or features that have been quietly embedded in applications you use each day.

The story of how generative AI arrived on college campuses is far more complicated and troubling than purchasing a single app, like ChatGPT. Updates in existing contacts don’t require a clearly defined decision making processes or go through shared governance
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For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here

So is Gen AI already taking away white-collar jobs?

One expert I talked to from Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce says no, but this NYTimes column by ‪@kevinroose.com‬ argues that the job losses area already happening, and that new college grads are feeling it.

What do folks think?

UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region’s AI development

UAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf

"The UAE is on a mission to become a global player in AI. The country appointed the world’s first AI minister back in 2017, and mandated this month that all primary schools add AI-based topics like algorithmic bias and prompt engineering..."

Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles As state officials anticipate Medicaid funding cuts that could strip resources for those with disabilities and chronic health conditions, an army of unpaid caregivers waits in the wings: children.

Here's a must read from Leah Fabel:

Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles

"Young caregivers report more depression, anxiety, and stress than their peers. Their physical health tends to be worse, too." and their educational outcomes are greatly impacted.

Tufts student detained by US immigration authorities must be released, judge rules A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.

It seems like everyone has seen the video of Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk getting arrested on the street because of an op-ed she co-wrote for the campus newspaper criticizing the university's response to Israel's war in Gaza. After six weeks of detention, she is now free after a judge's order

International students are rethinking coming to the U.S. That’s a problem for colleges Foreign-born students pay double or triple the tuition of domestic students — and are key to universities’ bottom line.

It's the day students decide which campus they're committing to, and colleges expect the number of international students to be down significantly because of recent Trump administration visa cancellations. And that will be a big financial blow to higher ed. hechingerreport.org/internationa...

AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent. - EdSurge News In a new book, a long-time expert on academic integrity argues that understating why students cheat is key to making adjustments in teaching to prevent ...

The EdSurge Podcast is back with our first episode of the new year.

The question is what to do about student cheating with AI, focusing on a new book by a longtime expert on academic integrity. I was surprised by some of the advice here:

www.edsurge.com/news/2025-01...

Does School Choice Need a Lemon Law? - EdSurge News Some are anticipating a further expansion of school choice incentives. Would consumer protection laws applied to education help?

Does School Choice Need a Lemon Law?

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What We Learned About Teaching and Creativity by Commissioning a New Podcast Theme Song - EdSurge News For a special music episode of the EdSurge Podcast, we talked with the artist who composed our theme song about the importance of infusing creativity ...

The latest EdSurge Podcast is kind of hard to explain, but in a good way. Our search for a new podcast theme song led to this unexpected conversation about the importance of creativity in teaching and in life. And it's about free music online. www.edsurge.com/news/2024-12...

Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies - EdSurge News A new effort uses AI chatbots to conduct interviews with human subjects, which proponents say will revolutionize measuring public opinion in a variety ...

I kind of thought that one thing AI wouldn't be doing was actually interviewing human subjects in social science research. Well... some profs are trying it:

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Want to Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-year Colleges? Look at Transfer Students. - EdSurge News Students who transfer from community colleges to four-year universities are often more motivated and engaged in the classroom than students who arrive ...

Latest episode of the EdSurge Podcast just dropped: Want to Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-year Colleges? Look at Transfer Students.

It boosted my mood to hear this student talk about campus as an academic Disneyland and how he couldn't wait to learn.

www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...

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Trump to name McMahon education secretary, CNN reports The former WWE executive has served on the board of Sacred Heart University since 2004 but has few other ties to higher ed.

Reports: Trump Picks McMahon as Education Secretary
The former WWE executive has served on the board of Sacred Heart University since 2004 but has few other ties to higher ed.

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New AI Tools Are Promoted as Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good? - EdSurge News As more AI tools hit the market aimed at helping students study, some teaching experts raise concerns, as well as point to benefits for neurodivergent ...

When it comes to new AI tools, there’s a tension in education between the efficiency prized in productivity features and the friction necessary for learning that sticks. Excited to have this @edsurge.bsky.social article republished in Fast Company.

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