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Bryan Alexander

Benedict, Mary Ellen; McClough, David; and Hoag, John (2024) "STILL WAITING FOR THE SHOE TO DROP? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY FINANCIAL STRESS,"

This study uses the 2010, 2017, and 2018 data of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to estimate which institutional factors increase the probability that a private, nonprofit, higher education institution will face financial stress. The study first estimates enrollment and net tuition with a reduced form market model. Those estimates, endowment dollars, and college rankings are used to identify institutions that are financially stressed. Our assessment indicates that approximately 11.5 percent of the sample institutions are stressed, suggesting that the earlier predictions of a 25-50 percent reduction are overestimated, at least for private-nonprofit institutions. The study next employs a probit model to identify those institutional characteristics that contribute to financial stress. Our results demonstrate that some common tactics to relieve such stress, such as online delivery, putting emphasis on admissions without consideration of graduation rates, or being in a more renowned athletic association, may not be helpful in reducing financial stress.

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Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China | Nature Health

By 2023, NEVs led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths, respectively.

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A GenAI Prompt Library - WAC

an open-access, peer-reviewed collection designed to align expert knowledge about writing with the practice of writing prompts for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms. The library showcases 16 prompts, each of which have been designed for and tested across multiple GenAI platforms. The editors and contributors to the collection advance and amplify new ways for members of the writing and rhetoric field—broadly defined as scholars and teachers of language use, from composition to technical and professional communication and beyond—to activate their expertise and uphold their values when engaging with GenAI platforms. Rather than engaging in a winner-takes-all existential struggle that pits human writing against machine writing, they wrestle with GenAI platforms in ways that provide us with opportunities to stay in the loop and, doing so, offer writers and writing instructors agency to enact humanistic values and uphold disciplinary expertise.

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