This week, Johns Hopkins medical school goes tuition-free, Morehouse College tries out digital teaching assistants, most college students rate the quality of their education highly, and some AP exam scores are canceled due to cheating.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will be tuition-free for most students starting this fall, thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Medical students from families earning less than $300,000 a year will have their tuition covered. The gift will also increase financial aid for students in other graduate programs at Johns Hopkins.
Professors at Morehouse College are piloting a program using digital teaching assistants. Morehouse does not currently have TAs. The new digital TAs, powered by artificial intelligence, will function in digital classrooms and can use slideshows, images, and other media to review lessons and assist students with course materials.
Three out of four college students rated the quality of their education as “good” or “excellent,” according to Inside Higher Ed’s annual Student Voice Survey across a variety of academic institutions. Only 2 percent of students rated their quality of education as “poor.”
Some students’ AP exam scores were canceled this year due to an international cheating ring prompted by a leak of test materials onto the black market. Though the number of cancellations was higher than normal, it still accounted for less than 1 percent of all exams. The College Board is moving up its timeline for digitizing AP exams in hopes of preventing future security breaches.
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