Universities Confront LLMs Undermining Undergraduate Learning

Paul Sagar, Reader in Political Theory at King's College London, argues in Unherd that large language models threaten undergraduate intellectual development by enabling shortcutting and cheating, and calls for a partial return to pen-and-paper, in-person assessments. Separately, Kyle Saunders of Colorado State University launched an interactive website mapping institutional resilience and post-college market position for 1,556 US colleges using IPEDS, College Scorecard, WICHE, O*NET, Anthropic, and Census datasets.
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