Mark Cuban’s insights highlight four job skills rendered obsolete by AI: routine coding, basic data analysis, generic finance and legal work, and non-creative tasks. As AI enhances efficiency, the focus should shift to preparing the workforce for roles requiring creativity and critical thinking. Educational institutions must adapt to these evolving demands. Continue reading Mark Cuban and the Job Skills that are Worthless Today
A recent survey indicates that while most academics have not utilized AI for writing, 58 percent support its limited use. Though resistance exists, many students embrace AI, highlighting a divide with faculty. AI enhances research efficiency, prompting discussions about ethical use in academia as the landscape shifts dramatically. Continue reading AI, Research, and the New Academic Divide
By Watson Scott Swail, President/CEO & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute In the mid-1990s, I created the Swail Geometric Framework to help higher education practitioners better understand the primary factors that contribute to student attrition and the strategies they can use to address them. Since then, dozens—if not hundreds—of universities have used the model successfully. First published in the ASHE-ERIC/Jossey-Bass volume “Retaining Minority Students in Higher … Continue reading The Geometry of Student Success
For decades, international students have been a cornerstone of American higher education, helping universities fill classrooms, sustain graduate programs, conduct cutting-edge research, and generate billions of dollars in tuition revenue. Today, however, a combination of restrictive immigration policies, declining student mobility, and growing uncertainty about studying in the United States is creating one of the most significant challenges the sector has faced in years. The cost of these losses will be in the tens of millions for individual institutions and hundreds of billions for the US economy as a whole. Continue reading America’s International Student Reckoning: New Visa Restrictions and Enrollment Declines Threaten Higher Education
by Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scientist I grew up at a special, prosperous time in history. Born in the early 60s, I didn’t have the burden of living through a world war. In fact, we didn’t think of war much in my youth. Raised in Canada, Vietnam wasn’t our issue. We read about it. But because it wasn’t us, it mattered … Continue reading Putting College Costs in Perspective: A Brief History in Time (and CPI)
