An NYU professor introduced AI-powered oral exams after students struggled to explain polished, AI-assisted assignments. The move reflects how colleges are rethinking assessment in the generative AI era.
Across the country, universities are adding AI-focused courses, launching new majors, and retraining professors to prepare students for a world where algorithms handle the grunt work and humans provide the judgment.
Newly confirmed Education Secretary Linda McMahon called for the removal of "red tape and bureaucratic barriers" and an "effective transfer of educational oversight to the states."
