Reported by University Business, despite an 85% on-campus vaccination rate, a nearly 50 student COVID case count triggered the decision to shift university-wide to virtual learning.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while The University System of Georgia has opposed both mask and vaccine mandates across their 26 institutions, many USG faculty are concerned about the personal health risk this opens themselves up to in the classroom.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, private nonprofit Brandman University will now become UMass Global in exchange for $130 million over the next 10 years.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, one of the most invisible inequities during last year’s emergency remote learning experiment was the fact that many students had very varied access to high-speed internet, including 57 percent of students claiming that accessing high-speed internet was difficult for them as reported in a Third Way and New America research study.

Reported by EdSurge, while the buzzword of “AI” gets thrown around a lot in education, this often means fairly basic adaptivity - merely rearranging learning sequence - at its most generous.

Reported by EdSurge, a recent College Innovation Network survey reported that a full 20% of our students struggled with the EdTech tools required in their online courses during the pandemic.

Reported by EdSurge, this pandemic has hit our student mothers the hardest, with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research labeling this crisis a “shecession” due to limited in-person schooling options for their children.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, Intel’s program is attempting to develop their own future workforce in partnership with local community colleges. The curriculum includes more than 200 hours of technical content as well as ethical training regarding AI use cases.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a Pearson+ subscription will cost a student $14.99/month for access to the platform’s full library of books and other academic content.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, this pilot only includes four transfer colleges who will also be providing the courses, including Baker College, Franklin University, Western Texas College, and Strayer University. Eligibility requirements include junior year standing and a 3.0 GPA.