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Can Technology Help Community Colleges Avoid the Enrollment Cliff?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

What awaits college and university leaders is the long-predicted enrollment cliff, the period around 2025 or 2026 when the effects of the Great Recession on this country’s birth rate will be realized as dramatically fewer high school seniors reach graduation. A defining moment for higher education in this country lurks just around the corner.

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6 Strategies for Educating the AI Workforce

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The field of artificial intelligence is hot right now, and with so many potential applications for the technology, most of us can’t even imagine them all. million data-related job openings by 2026, with demand for AI research scientists expected to grow by 19 percent. Because of the explosion in AI interest, the U.S.

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Majority of Enterprises will Deploy AI Apps or APIs in Production Environments by 2026

Campus Technology

By 2026, that will skyrocket to 80%, the market research firm forecast in a new report. In 2023, just 5% of enterprises had deployed generative AI apps or used generative APIs in production environments, according to Gartner.

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New Student Retention and Admissions Strategies Focus on Tech

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Drones at college fairs, robot-guided campus tours and AI chatbot tutors promising personalized education are just a few of the technology tools universities across the country are using, all with a common goal in mind: to attract the next generation of students excited about tech as the enrollment cliff looms.

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Is technology the ticket to bridging the £17bn gap in university income?

HEPI

Higher education software provider TechnologyOne modelled the total amount universities will lose to inflation each year up until 2026-27, by calculating the real-terms decline in tuition fee value and forward projections on student applicants. There are no two ways about it: technology is the answer to many of the ills the sector faces.

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IBM Commits to Train 2 Million AI Learners for Free by 2026

Campus Technology

As part of the 2023 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, IBM announced it will train, for free, 2 million learners in AI worldwide within the next three years, building on its existing commitment to skill 30 million learners by 2030.

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Meeting the Looming Web Accessibility Regulations: The Time to Start Was Yesterday

WCET Frontiers

NWHeat (Northwest Higher Education Accessibility Technology) is a partnership between Orbis Cascade Alliance (for libraries) and the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC). The compliance deadline is: 50,000 or more people: April 24, 2026, Fewer than 50,000 people: April 24, 2027. What is the Deadline?