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GenAI offers students and teachers in business schools a wealth of benefits, but this tech “shortcut” is at odds with inclusive and meaningful learning. bigjom jom / Shutterstock

Generative AI in business schools: friend or foe?

How can business schools best navigate the AI era? Does GenAI in higher education constitute a level playing field where educational inequality and diverse learning needs are concerned?
Columbia University, seen in June 2025, is one of the schools that made a deal with the Trump administration last year in order to avoid losing funding. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Universities survived Trump’s 2025 funding freeze, but the money still isn’t flowing to researchers

The Trump administration is leaning away from dramatic funding cuts and settlements with universities, and more toward standard tactics to try to limit funding.
Only three universities agreed to the higher education compact, which offered benefits in federal funding in exchange for major policy and administrative changes at schools. Alina Naumova/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Trump offered a restrictive deal to universities that almost all rejected – but the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education may not be entirely dead

The Trump administration is reportedly working on a revised version of the higher education proposal.
If prompted, an AI tool can be tailored to help students think through their own reasoning rather than just feed them answers. Issarawat Tattong/iStock/Getty Images

We designed an AI tutor that helps college students reason rather than give them answers

A 2025 study shows that an AI-based tutor improves learning when it prompts reasoning and is paired with peer discussion.
Using a pen or a keyboard has an impact on students’ written work. Shutterstock

Why we shouldn’t abandon handwriting at school

In today’s classrooms, pens and exercise books are increasingly having to make way for screens and keyboards. Does technology help pupils write as efficiently?
Opposition education spokesman Julian Leeser, pictured at Parliament House in Canberra in 2025. Mick Tsikas/AAP

Should unis ditch group assignments?

Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser says universities should get rid of group assignments, branding them ‘unfair’.
While many colleges have guidance on how students should use AI, specific policies tend to vary across professors and fields of study. Jutharat Pinpan/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it

Colleges and universities are taking on different approaches to how their students are using AI – but with a shared recognition that they cannot prevent it altogether.
Will AI hollow out the pipeline of students, researchers and faculty that is the basis of today’s universities? Hill Street Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.
Jackson State University students attend an event in Mississippi in October 2025. Aron Smith/Jackson State University via Getty Images

Historically Black colleges and universities do more than offer Black youths a pathway to opportunity and success – I teach criminology, and my research suggests another benefit

HBCUs make up just 3% of the country’s colleges and universities. But their graduates include 40% of Black engineers and 50% of Black lawyers.

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