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US higher education cuts ‘opportune moment’ for Hong Kong to attract talent, says head of city’s top university [ Hong Kong Free Press ]
The flava:
However, Hong Kong also faces competition from other universities in the region in attracting talent, he said, citing the case of ex-Harvard chemist Charles Lieber.
Lieber, who in 2021 was convicted of lying to the US federal government about his research ties to China, joined Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, a university in Shenzhen, as a professor in late April.
Zhang told the newspapers that Lieber intended to come to HKU, but the Chinese university made a better offer. The vice-chancellor added that housing and education for children in Hong Kong posed an additional challenge in the city’s bid to bring in talent. . . .
The article:
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Crisis on campus: The future of higher education [ Connecticut Public Radio ]
GUESTS:
- Susan Raff, Chief political reporter, WFSB Eyewitness News Ch. 3
- Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Investigative reporter, Hearst Connecticut Media
- Brian Rosenberg, Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, author of Whatever It Is, I’m Against It
- Jon Marcus, Senior higher education reporter for The Hechinger Report and co-host of the podcast, “College Uncovered”
Attorney: University of Alabama student detained by ICE chooses to return to Iran [ Tuscaloosanews.com ]
A University of Alabama graduate student detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than 40 days said he wants to return to Iran, his home country.
David Rozas, an attorney representing Alireza Doroudi, said in a statement May 8 that Douroudi made the decision after a hearing in Jena, Louisiana, where he was taken by authorities after ICE agents took him into custody in March.
“Mr. Doroudi made the difficult decision to ask for and was granted voluntary departure and return to Iran in order to avoid prolonged and unnecessary detention,” Rozas said in the statement. “He turned and looked at me and said, ‘I love this country, but they don’t want me here, so I will go home.”’
The article:
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It [ NYTimes ]
The flava:
In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor?
Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to “expand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.” It was followed by a list of positive and negative leadership traits, each with a prosaic definition and a bullet-pointed example.
Ms. Stapleton texted a friend in the class.
“Did you see the notes he put on Canvas?” she wrote, referring to the university’s software platform for hosting course materials. “He made it with ChatGPT.”
“OMG Stop,” the classmate responded. “What the hell?”
Ms. Stapleton decided to do some digging. She reviewed her professor’s slide presentations and discovered other telltale signs of A.I.: distorted text, photos of office workers with extraneous body parts and egregious misspellings.
She was not happy. . . .
The article:
Monday, May 12, 2025
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