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Calishat

#AI #LawEnforcement #HigherEducation

'On Monday, the State Bar of California revealed that it used AI to develop a portion of multiple-choice questions on its February 2025 bar exam, causing outrage among law school faculty and test takers. The admission comes after weeks of complaints about technical problems and irregularities during the exam administration, reports the Los Angeles Times.'

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

A computer-generated gavel hovering over a laptop.
Ars Technica · AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproarBy Benj Edwards
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MediaFaro News Digest

Ghent University warns staff about working with US colleges amid Trump's crackdown.

“The United States government took several measures that threaten the autonomy of universities and academic freedom,” Ghent University said in an email to staff, adding that due to its many research collaborations with US institutions, “the university is concerned about these developments.”

mediafaro.org/article/20250423

The campus of the University of Ghent. | Jonas Dhollander/Belga/AFP via Getty Images
Politico.eu · Ghent University warns staff about working with US colleges amid Trump's crackdown.By Elena Giordano
#University#Ghent#HigherEducation
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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

In the first session of my "Introduction to data analysis in R for linguists and language education scholars" course, I asked students about their motivation for attending in an anonymous survey.

The course is optional and their answers range from brutal honesty ("It fitted my schedule and there were not many other options") to genuine interest ("Really wanna grasp some cool data knowledge"). I don't know who taught this student's last #statistics class but kudos on them for keeping up the motivation: "Learn about statistics in linguistics in a hands-on course which teaches me more than my previous one (i.e. more than nothing)"!

But hands down my favourite motivation has to be: "My boyfriend kept complaining about R for a year and I wanted to see if it was actually that difficult or also a little fun". So, there we go, this course just got a new objective: prove a boyfriend wrong! 😂

First course slide with course title: Introduction to Data Analysis in R for linguists and language education scholars. The name of the instructor: Dr. Elen le Foll, my e-mail address and affiliation (Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne) and artwork by Allison Horst showing to pink monsters at a colourful gate that reads "welcome".
#Rstats#HigherEducation#linguistics
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DoomsdaysCW

#Resist! Four Maine college presidents sign national letter decrying Trump education 'overreach'

Riley Board, Portland Press Herald, Maine
Tue, April 22, 2025

"Four Maine higher education leaders have signed on to a letter accusing the Trump administration of 'unprecedented government overreach and political interference.'

"Safa Zaki of #BowdoinCollege, Garry Jenkins of #BatesCollege, David Greene of #ColbyCollege and James Herbert of the #UniversityOfNewEngland all added their names to the letter, published Tuesday by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. More than 230 presidents of colleges, universities and scholarly societies throughout the country have signed so far.

" 'We are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight,' the letter reads. 'However, we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work on our campuses. We will always seek effective and fair financial practices, but we must reject the coercive use of public research funding.'

"Though the letter primarily represents private institutions, leaders from a handful of state colleges and universities signed on, including University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes and Eastern Connecticut State University President Karim Ismaili. A spokesperson for the University of Maine system declined to comment.

"In recent months, the Trump administration has pulled or threatened to pull federal funding from higher education institutions that don't comply with his agenda on #StudentProtesters, admissions practices and #TransgenderAthlete policies.

"The administration has also revoked the visas of hundreds of international students. On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security [#DHS] and other agencies behind the visa revocations, asking that a judge restore the visas of any New England students who have had them wrongfully removed, and protecting future students from the same actions."

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Yahoo News · Four Maine college presidents sign national letter decrying Trump education 'overreach'By Riley Board, Portland Press Herald, Maine
#MaineResists#TrumpIsABully#HigherEducation
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