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There has been much hand-wringing about ChatGPT recently and how it might enable a generation of students to simply cheat their way through school. If you’ve been around long enough, you may remember the same worries about the use of handheld calculators in schools. The truth is that every generation will bring new technological advances.Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic helped to speed up tech adoption in the healthcare industry in many ways. In one stunning example of rapid AI development, MIT created an AI program that could listen to a person’s cough and identify a regular cough from a COVID-19 cough, even if the patient was asymptomatic. According to their studyRead more

According to recent statistics posted September 22, 2022 on Zippia, the gig economy has grown by 15 percent in the past decade. That’s 15 times the rate of overall job growth experienced during that time. In addition, at least 48 percent of companies currently hire freelancers and 90 percent of these organizations see gig workRead more

The global coronavirus pandemic has forced innumerable changes to why we work, when we work, how we work and where we work. When businesses in every industry were forced to change the way they operated, the roles of employees within those organizations were forced to change as well. One of the roles that has seenRead more

It may seem as if the push for corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives began with recent social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and Me Too. But in reality, DEI initiatives began in the early 1960s as a response to the civil rights movement and the subsequent Civil Rights Act of 1964.Read more

When dealing with the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are finding that the post-pandemic business recovery is somewhat ambiguous. There are still critical business challenges that need to be examined. For example, during the pandemic, businesses had to pivot quickly and develop alternative approaches to cope with economic uncertainties. Some of these strategies focusedRead more

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to be fully realized, there is no denying that it has permanently transformed the healthcare system and the way doctors, pharmacies and hospitals do business. As we slowly creep into a post-pandemic world, how we treat patients, deliver medications and administer healthcare will be forever changed.Read more

To quote the late, great Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” As we approach the summer of 2022, we are still dealing with the same issues we had in the summer of 2021 and the summer of 2020. COVID-19 case counts are going up again across the U.S. due to a riseRead more

As the Omicron wave of COVID-19 falls off the backs of our shoulders, many legislators and political leaders have decided to ease pandemic restrictions, which includes lifting mask mandates. Private businesses have followed suit. In fact, most of the country, and the world, is moving forward as if COVID-19 is over. The U.S.’s decision toRead more

For this article, we interviewed a wide variety of students, teachers and administrators to get their insights on the effects of COVID-19 on higher education in the U.S. For the broad purposes of this article, we use higher education and post-secondary education to refer to colleges (community colleges, technical schools and liberal arts colleges) andRead more