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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate students for doctoral degrees in the sciences. At least 24 University of California and California State University campuses lost training grants that provided their students...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters El otoño pasado, más de 17,400 estudiantes de último año de preparatoria recibieron la noticia más dulce que cualquier estudiante ansioso puede recibir: felicitaciones, debido a tu promedio de calificaciones, eres admitido automáticamente en uno de los 10 campus de la Universidad Estatal de California de...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters More than 17,400 high school seniors last fall got the sweetest news any anxious student can get: Congratulations, because of your high school GPA, you’re automatically admitted to one of 10 California State University campuses of your choice — and they’re all relatively affordable. Even with...
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Delilah Brumer CalMatters Fearing immigration enforcement on or near college campuses during President Donald Trump’s second term, students across the state have been demanding university officials offer more protections. Students have been protesting against Trump’s pledge of mass deportations at campuses such as UC Berkeley and Sacramento State. Recently,...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters Durante la pandemia, Jon Siapno, un veterano consejero universitario y profesional del Área de la Bahía, comenzó a desarrollar un chatbot que pudiera responder las preguntas de los estudiantes de secundaria sobre sus futuras opciones educativas. Estaba usando Watson, el precursor de preguntas y respuestas...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters During the pandemic, longtime Bay Area college and career counselor Jon Siapno started developing a chatbot that could answer high schoolers’ questions about their future education options. He was using IBM’s question-answering precursor to ChatGPT, Watson, but when generative artificial intelligence became accessible, he knew...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Many students start community college with the hope of getting an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution, such as a California State University or University of California campus. But a state audit, released September 24, found that the vast majority of these students never...
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Alrededor del 53% de los estudiantes de secundaria piensan que votar es importante, según una encuesta reciente de la organización sin fines de lucro Youth Truth. Los investigadores encuestaron a 115.000 estudiantes de secundaria estadounidenses, incluidos californianos, sobre el compromiso cívico y encontraron que el 60% cree que “ayudar...
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About 53% of high school students think voting is important, according to a recent survey from the nonprofit Youth Truth. Researchers polled 115,000 American high school students, including Californians, on civic engagement and found 60% believe “helping others is important,” but only 44% feel confident in their ability to...