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Newsletter #185: AI is causing students to change their degrees; The gap between student expectations and reality; Why Yale shouldn’t make seminars device-free — Education Marketer
📝 From the Education Marketer deskAI is causing students to change their degrees. ReadWorking class postgrads feel more exposed to AI than other students. ReadWhy Yale shouldn’t make seminars device-free. Read📰 HE newsA new report by Advance HE reveals that students are overall “confident” about aspects of future study. However, while information-rich topics like “finding accommodation” inspired the greatest confidence (87%), less documented and soft areas like “making friends” were much lower at 68%. Of course, there’s an opportunity for differentiation - if your institution is better at helping prospective students make friends than the institution over the road, then you’re addressing a major pain point. But the report’s at its most useful when exploring the disconnect between student expectations and the reality of study. Case in point, 40% of students expect to work 16 hours a week on top of a “full-time” (35 - 40 hours per week) degree. That isn’t realistic, and for all the best marketing and recruitment efforts, could lead to withdrawal before enrolment and attrition thereafter. Are you educating students on their most significant knowledge gaps? Doing so will save you trouble down the line. Read📊 Marketing and media newsI don’t think there is an HE marketing manager in existence who doesn’t understand the power of repurposing content, but what if the repurpose becomes more valuable than the original artefact? OpenAI recently acquired TBPN, a live daily podcast that’s popular in Silicon Valley. It gets 7,000 listens per episode and was purchased for $200m. For context, the largest podcast deal in history is Spotify’s exclusivity deal with The Joe Rogan Experience for $250m. That gets 11 million listens per episode. Why can 7,000 listens be in the same ballpark as 11 million? Clips! Cut downs of TBPN get an average of 257,000 views per clip. The format has been so successful for the show they now put ad segments at the end of the clips (LOL) because that’s where the engagement is. Spend as much time planning your repurposed content as your original work. Clips are how most people will engage with it. ReadAustralia’s under-16 social media ban isn’t off to the best start with 61% of young people reporting “no action” from social media companies to remove or deactivate their account. This follows an investigation from The Guardian revealing that there has been no significant change in reported cases of cyberbullying. In fact, 14% of children felt “le...
The Higher Ed Crisis Isn’t New — AI Made It Visible | Research Communities by Springer Nature
Like Liked by India Ambler and 1 other Share this post Choose a social network to share with, or copy the URL to share elsewhere This is a representation of how your post may appear on social media. The actual post will vary between social networks Higher education is experiencing a moment of reckoning. Students are using AI to complete assignments. Faculty struggle to assess learning when traditional markers of effort have become unreliable. Universities scramble to write AI policies years after the technology became ubiquitous. But here is what social science reveals: this is not an AI crisis. This is an institutional crisis that AI simply made undeniable. Grade inflation has quietly eroded the meaning of academic credentials for decades. A’s represented just 15% of all letter grades in 1960, rising to 43% by 2009 (Rojstaczer & Healy, 2012). The Department of Education confirms that four-year college GPAs rose more than 16% between 1990 and 2020, with A now the most common grade at American universities. Our own analysis of over 460,000 grades found that 73% at a public institution fell in the A–B range, with significant variation across fields (Hermanowicz & Woodring, 2019). Meanwhile, only 38% of employers still screen candidates by GPA — a 35% decline in five years (NACE, 2024). The credential that was supposed to signal competency has become noise. The workforce behind that credential has been hollowed out. Nearly 68% of faculty are now in contingent positions — up from 47% in 1987 (AAUP, 2025). These faculty earn an average of $4,093 per course — roughly one-fifth what a full professor earns for teaching the same class — often without health insurance or retirement benefits. A UC Berkeley Labor Center study found one in four adjunct families rely on public assistance programs. The people doing the teaching have become disposable, while the credential they confer grows increasingly questionable. Students continue to accumulate debt at unprecedented rates. Total U.S. student loan debt now exceeds $1.67 trillion across 42.3 million borrowers (Federal Student Aid Data Center, 2025). Recent graduates are underemployed at the highest rate since the pandemic — 42.5% work in jobs that don’t require a degree (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2025). Chetty et al.’s landmark 2017 study in Science found that absolute income mobility plummeted from 92% for children born in 1940 to just 50% for those born in the 1980s. The return on investment for a bachelo...
Frontiers | Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Student Use, Perceived Benefits, and Emerging Risks
Quantitative analyses combine descriptive summaries with Bayesian hierarchical logistic regression models to estimate the prevalence of AI use and examine variation in perceived dependence, policy clarity, and integrity-related anxiety across student characteristics.
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