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Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Syracuse University will eliminate 93 academic programs identified as having low or no enrollment, the private New York institution announced Wednesday. But unlike many colleges making cuts, Syracuse is not doing so out of financial necessity, according to Lois Agnew, the university’s provost and chief academic officer. The downsizing came from a desire to make the institution’s offerings “more focused, more distinctive and more aligned with student demand,” Agnew said in a campus letter. No positions or departments have been…

A Complete Guide To Continuous Growth In Work And Life If one thing has been true lately, it’s that the only constant is change. All around us, industries evolve rapidly and new technologies emerge, making it essential for employees to continuously add new skills to their arsenal. In other words, in the modern business landscape, the concept of lifelong learning has become more relevant than ever. But what is lifelong learning exactly, and why does it carry so much significance? Whether you’re an employee looking to stay competitive, a leader investing in talent, or simply someone curious about personal growth,…

More than a year after the California State University system invested millions in a plan to grow the state’s artificial intelligence–ready workforce, new data shows that the majority of students, faculty and staff at the nation’s largest university system are using AI-powered tools—despite some reluctance and skepticism. ChatGPT, which the entire CSU system has access to through a partnership with OpenAI, is by far the most popular tool. On Wednesday, the CSU system—which has 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff across 23 campuses—published a report detailing those and other findings from a fall 2025 survey of 94,060 respondents—including 80,626…

As I watched the 68 teams in the NCAA women’s March Madness tournament winnow to a Final Four, I was proud of how far the tournament has come. With superstars like UCLA’s Lauren Betts, South Carolina’s Raven Johnson and Louisiana State’s Flau’jae Johnson, it’s easy to forget that less than five years ago, the women’s tournament didn’t even get to use the “March Madness” name. Only after an outcry on social media about the stark differences between men’s and women’s championship tournament training facilities did the NCAA scramble to level the playing field; in 2022 it expanded the number of…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Tuesday said it reached its cap for H-1B visas for fiscal year 2027, including the advanced degree exemption, according to a news release. USCIS annually allows 65,000 H-1B visas and an additional 20,000 for workers with a master’s degree or higher from a U.S. institution, the agency said. This year’s lottery is the first subject to a new weighted selection process favoring higher-skilled and higher-paid workers. Dive Insight: Immigration and the H-1B visa program…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter An incident where schoolchildren were hit with pepper spray at an Oʻahu school has added momentum to calls for counselors, not cops, on campus.  In late February, a Honolulu police officer deployed pepper spray against Kapolei Middle School students while trying to break up a fight, a rare use of force against Hawaiʻi minors in an educational setting.  Emily Hills, senior attorney with the ACLU of Hawaiʻi, said she would like to see more counselors and mental health professionals addressing issues on campus rather than…

Yesterday was April Fool’s Day, the one day a year when a college can poke fun at its students without ruffling too many feathers. Institutions have once again come out in full force, taking to social media to announce everything from new curricula to massive renovation projects that may or may not be real. Here are some of the most fun—and, in some cases, most convincing—pranks colleges played this April Fool’s Day. AI Faculty In a prank that doesn’t feel too far from reality, Indiana Tech, a private university in Fort Wayne, announced that it was launching the world’s first…

Very few of us have ever set foot near a gen­uine medieval cas­tle, espe­cial­ly if we don’t hap­pen to live in Europe. Yet prac­ti­cal­ly all of us still, here in the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry, refer with some fre­quen­cy to their com­po­nents in our every­day speech. When we invoke moats, draw­bridges, dun­geons, and even cat­a­pults, we almost always do so metaphor­i­cal­ly — assum­ing we’re not active mem­bers of a his­tor­i­cal re-cre­ation soci­ety — yet we also have no prob­lem see­ing them before our mind’s eye with what feels like per­fect clar­i­ty. The dif­fi­cul­ty comes if we attempt to inte­grate all of those…

Many criteria go into making a college list. Is the school a good academic and social fit for your applicant? Does it have a good reputation? Is it affordable? How many graduates have jobs six months after receiving their diploma?Here’s another one to think about: location.What to consider: geographic features, climate, urban vs. rural, regional culture – and, of course, distance from home.How much location overshadows other factors will vary from family to family. My son wanted a city environment with considerable history, on the East Coast, no farther south than William & Mary. Those criteria shaped his search, though…

U.S. News: What do you see as the value of a liberal arts education in today’s age of rapidly growing technology and artificial intelligence? Tetlow: AI has made the liberal arts more important than ever. In this changing economy, the jobs that will survive will be those that require the most human of skills. Ironically, the most technical and pragmatic professions are the easiest to replace with technology.  We teach those human skills in the liberal arts, especially the critical thinking necessary to question an algorithm. Through literature and art, we teach empathy and emotional intelligence necessary for leadership and teamwork.…