On the RI Report podcast, URI President Marc Parlange said that while the focus is on Harvard, canceled grants are hurting public schools that educate the working class and spur innovation.
Final debates began in the predawn hours after another chaotic day, and night, at the Capitol. House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted the House would meet the Fourth of July deadline.
The steady slowdown in US hiring likely continued in June as President Trump’s trade wars, federal hiring freeze and immigration crackdown weighed on the American job market.
Ideas range from less emphasis on mastering programming languages to focusing on hybrid courses designed to inject computing into every profession, as educators ponder what the tech jobs of the future will look like in an AI economy.
Workplace social protocols are being upended by artificial intelligence tools that promise to make it easier to tune out while in a meeting or offer the temptation of skipping calls without penalties altogether.