Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm. He immediately suspected “massive cheating,” because the grade distribution was, in his words, “absurd.”
In September, 23-year old Bella Ramirez will become the first person in her family to attend graduate school, after navigating the law school admissions process largely on her own.
At Messina College, students take small classes and labs, and work closely with mentors. The college says most students pay an average of $2,000 per year for tuition, room and board.
AI is transforming industries from software development to construction management and architecture. To prepare students, colleges are rethinking what—and how—they teach. Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston is meeting the challenge with a new degree in applied artificial intelligence.
Facing enrollment declines and financial strain, Clark University plans faculty cuts and academic restructuring to stay afloat. The changes reflect broader challenges in higher education, including shrinking student pools, AI-driven job shifts and growing skepticism about college value.
If Congress signs off on that plan, campuses like UMass—which are already hurting from terminated grants—could lose more than half their federal research support.
A growing number of colleges offering direct admissions, a little-known practice that gives students a fast-track to college, bypassing essays, recommendation letters and sometimes even the application itself. The practice is gaining steam among colleges hoping to balance their enrollment.
Thanks to the rise of generative artificial intelligence, what one instructor considers a tool in another context could be considered a slippery slope into academic dishonesty.
Hampshire College in Amherst announced cuts to staff benefits just months after the school’s leaders said it had recovered from enrollment and financial problems.
