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Audit Finds ‘Severe Noncompliance’ at Utah State University https://bit.ly/4kj9yny

Opinion | An Interim President for Every Institution What if colleges and universities hired short-term leaders for a year or three to get the really hard stuff done? https://bit.ly/4rPjXdp

Opinion | AI Tutoring and the Cost of Convenience Despite its many strengths, AI tutoring is no substitute for relationally rich peer-led tutoring programs. https://bit.ly/4qkbQEq

Inside Higher Ed: 3 Questions for Katie Tomlinson on Online Program Marketing & Enrollment Management https://lnkd.in/gtAsYMxV A conversation with a senior director of analytics and business intelligence at EducationDynamics.

My latest for Inside Higher Ed: Graduate school has become an increasingly common educational pathway; the share of U.S. adults with a graduate degree has nearly doubled over the past two decades, according to the Postsecondary Education & Economics Research (PEER) Center. But according to new research from the center, many students still do not complete their program within six years. Looking at administrative data from Texas, researchers found that only 62 percent of students who entered a graduate program between 2003–04 and 2012–13 earned a degree in six years or less. The good news is that completion rates have improved over time: While 58 percent of students who started a graduate program in Texas in 2003–04 graduated within six years, the number jumped to 68 percent for the 2012–13 cohort—a faster increase than the growth in undergraduate completion rates over a similar period. “Graduate school is in the place that undergraduates were 15 or 20 years ago,” said Jeff Denning, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the report. “Now we want to think about the success of these students—not just graduation, but also earnings and debt repayment.” #StudentSuccess #GraduateSchool #CollegeCompletion #StudentLoans https://lnkd.in/gEZiwGwB

Reflections on the Value of an AI-Assisted Textbook When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instructors’ time, the professor says. https://bit.ly/4ke7PQl

Student Success | Grad School Completion Lags Despite Growth New research finds that only 62 percent of Texas graduate students completed their degree within six years. Collecting more systematic national data can help boost that rate. https://bit.ly/4c8paYV