Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a full 16% of those students earning bachelor’s degrees will study abroad at some point in their undergraduate career, with the number of American students studying abroad growing 2.3% in the past year. Researchers attribute this to both the number of new non-foreign language specific programs as well as an increase in the number of shorter-term study abroad opportunities.

Reported by EdSurge, Penn State University educators helped paint a picture at the EDUCAUSE national conference of how artificial intelligence and machine learning will help complement and support the work of faculty in the classroom.

Reported by EdSurge, despite how widely available online degrees now are, students are still choosing familiar brands close to their backyard.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, most computer science majors aren’t looking to code their entire lives. That’s why institutions like MIT are pushing their faculty members to become “bilinguals”, interdisciplinary specialists who have their feet in both computation and another discipline, better matching the real-world applications of computer science.

Reported by EdSurge, when faculty hear about a new technological innovation sweeping higher ed, many are concerned of it furthering the commoditization of higher education. That the more our accrediting bodies force identical learning outcomes, and the more we play in the same technologies and systems, the less creative our faculty are able to be.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, this Stanford analysis claims that student success is much more correlated with how engaged a student is at an institution, and therefore, one should select an institution that they know they will work hard in, be engaged with, and find community within.

Reported by EAB, a recent paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research hypothesizes that this proves specific skills, not specific workers or degree graduates are actually in demand.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is spending $1 billion on a new college devoted to the study of artificial intelligence – both the technologies AI will help create, and the ethical challenges those creations will entail.

Reported by EAB, panelists at the recent Qatar Foundation conference argued that philosophy, ethics and morality will be the skillsets of the most successful global workers, not coding or programming.

Reported by EAB, The University of California at Berkeley’s FirstGen program offers an annual career conference where their first-generation students can network specifically with first-generation alumni and employers, and receive both academic and career advice from graduates who have taken a similar path to themselves.