College and university leaders attending Ellucian Live are on the verge of using AI to transform the student digital experience. The biggest challenge: overhauling IT infrastructure.
Despite colleges and universities slowly turning to AI for help with attracting students, their commitment to a "human-centered approach" is keeping some schools at shoulder's length in the application stage.
Facing a watershed moment in human agency, we must fiercely preserve spaces for human-only decision-making, especially in spaces demanding emotional intelligence, ethical judgment and creative thinking.
Academic programs at four-year universities must rebuild themselves to amend wilting employer and public trust and changing workforce competencies, says three higher education leaders at the cutting edge of academic and research innovation.
From 2023-2024, job postings rose by an average of 16% year-over-year in the top 10 computer science occupations. However, some fields are showing signs of market disruptions.