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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. But I thought [online learning] is a card we can play.

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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

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Their poignant voices were published a joint white paper entitled, “ Having Our Say: Examining Career Trajectories of Black Male Educators in P-12 Education.” While the paper spotlighted their valuable insights, observations and opinions, voices alone won’t increase the representation of Black males in the classroom.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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Founded in 1804 on hills beside the Hocking River in a city named Athens for its ambition to be a center of learning, O.U. Last fall, a white paper by O.U.’s — are fueling conflicts with administrators that, amplified by the coronavirus pandemic, have ignited protests by faculty, staff and some students and alumni. Others agree.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. But we also have had a persistent sense of all that book learning may just be too excessive for what people really need.

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