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AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2022 – NEWSLETTER #52 | Breaking news at IBL News | Noticias en Español
Higher Ed
• Biden Announced Its Plan to Cancel $10,000 in Student Loan Debt for Most Borrowers
• The U.S. Government Cancels $3.9 Billion in Loans for Deceived ITT Students
• Higher Ed’s Data and Analytics Infrastructure Is Outdated, Finds an Educause Report
• A Majority of Higher Ed Institutions Were Hit by Ransomware Attacks
• New York State Government Alerts of Scam Practices in Higher Ed
Universities
• Harvard University Starts the Search for Its Next President
• The University of Michigan Appoints a Canadian and Asian Descendant as Its 15th President
• The University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC) Buys the OPM Business of Zovio
• A Leading Cognitive Scientist Will Be the First Woman to Lead Dartmouth
• A Singapore Firm Buys a Private U.S. University and Will Create a Version in the Metaverse
Trends
• A Cengage’s Report Reveals that the Degree Stigma Causes Employment Crisis
• Half of the Students Prefer a Hybrid Class Format, While Faculty Favor In-Person Learning
• Learning Soft Skills Is Critical to Be Hired, Says a Majority of Employers
• Skill-Based Premium Pay: An Effective Way to Attract IT Talent, Says Gartner
• About 222 Million School-Aged Children Around the World Need Education Support
Initiatives
• AWS Introduces Paid Subscriptions for Learners Looking to Bolster Cloud Skills
• Google Releases an Android App that Encourages Children to Practice Reading
• YouTube Launches the Shorts Feature to Compete with TikTok
• FINRA Will Invest $90M Coming from Fines to Robinhood to Educate Newer Investors
Open Source
• An AI Model Named BLOOM, Larger than OpenAI’s GPT-3 and MetaAI’s OPT, Will Be Open Sourced
• META Engineers Build a Universal Translator of 200 Languages in Open Source Software
Financials
• College Endowments Lost 10% In the Last Year
• O’Reilly Says Its Business Grew at 45% Through Its New Platforms
• ClassDojo Achieves the Unicorn Status at a $1.25 Billion Valuation
• Web3 Learning and Talent UK’s Neol Attracts $5.2 Million from Investors
2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!
• Education Calendar 2022 – AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain
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