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In the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court will hand down one of the most consequential decisions for higher education in recent years. But regardless of the future of the Biden administrations loan forgiveness plan, to do the best for todays and tomorrows graduates, colleges and universities must think creatively if they are to use scarce resources efficiently. And for some governing boards, it is an existential matter for their institution.

Please join the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) on April 18, 2023, at 1 p.m. EST for a one-hour webinar designed specifically for college trustees and other higher education leaders to discuss college spending, budgets, and in what areas institutions can tighten their belts without harming academic quality or student outcomes. After this timely discussion, trustees will be better equipped to understand their institutions budgets and maximize their institutions resources.

Matthew HendricksFounder, Perspective Data Science

Dr. Matthew Hendricks is the founder of Perspective Data Science, a data consultancy firm that provides organizations, particularly those in the education sector operating on small budgets, with state-of-the-art analytics. He works with institutions to help them make better policy decisions that promote financial stability and improve student outcomes. Dr. Hendricks previously served as chair of the Department of Economics and associate professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, where his scholarship focused on labor economics, applied econometrics, and education policy. His research on the impact of changes in base salaries on teacher productivity was published in theJournal of Public EconomicsandEconomics of Education Review. Dr. Hendricks holds a B.S. in economics from St. Johns University and a Ph.D. in applied economics from the University of Minnesota.

The Honorable George Hank BrownFormer President, University of Colorado, and Former U.S. Senator

The Honorable Hank Brown served as president of the University of Colorado from 20052008. He was then named to the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership at the University of ColoradoBoulder and was an adjunct professor in the law school. Over his distinguished career in public service, he has served as the president of the University of Northern Colorado (19982002); as a member of the Colorado Senate (19721976); and as a member of both the U.S. House of Representatives (19811991) and the U.S. Senate (19911997). He led the university to record growth in enrollment, donations, and diversity and spearheaded the largest increase in state funding in the schools history. Dr. Brown is one of 22 signatories to ACTAsGovernance for a New Erareport, which calls on college trustees to work with faculty and presidents to form effective responses to ever-increasing tuition costs, outsized administrative expenditures, and the erosion of academic freedom. He received a B.S. in accounting from the University of Colorado, a masters degree in law from George Washington University, and a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law, and is a certified public accountant (CPA).

Robert C. DickesonCofounder, Academic Strategy Partners

Dr. Robert C. Dickeson iscofounder of Academic Strategy Partners, now the Academic Strategy Consortium, which provides expert consultation to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve institutional leadership, systems and processes, governance, planning, enrollment management, performance analytics, and financial standing. A national leader in higher education, Dr. Dickeson served as president of the University of Northern Colorado from 1981 to 1991. He has chaired blue-ribbon commissions appointed by three governors in two states; has been an officer of 80 corporate, government, foundation, and public affairs organizations; and served as commissioner from Colorado to the Education Commission of the States. As co-founder and Senior Vice President of Lumina Foundation for Education, he led the national effort to control college costs. He is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of higher education leadership and policy and public administration. Dr. Dickesons book,PrioritizingAcademic Programs and Services, is based on his extensive consulting experiences serving several hundred two- and four-year colleges and corporations ranging from hospitals to bank holding companies. Dr. Dickeson holds an A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of MissouriColumbia.

Alice Lee Williams BrownPrincipal, AWB & AssociatesAlice Lee Williams Brown taught at Appalachian State University, Eastern Kentucky University, Ohio University, and the University of Kentucky prior to leading the Appalachian College Program at the University of Kentucky. After 10 years, the Program became the non-profit Appalachian College Association housed in Berea, KY. For the next 15 years, Dr. Brown raised over $50 million to provide fellowships for faculty and research experiences for students at 35 small private colleges across the five states of central Appalachia. Since retiring as President Emerita from that association, she has received funding from various foundations to research colleges that closed or almost closed and the importance of trusteeship. Her research has resulted in the publication of 15 articles, three books, and a confidential report on the almost closing of Sweet Briar College. She reviews proposals for the Skelly Foundation and the US Department of Education, has served on the boards of the Southern Education Foundation, Colby-Sawyer College, HERS, the Association of Collaborative Leadership, Teaching Learning Technology, the Appalachian Studies Association, and has advised non-profit organizations and private colleges. She earned her B.S. and M.A. from Appalachian State University and her Ed.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Anna SillersData Analyst Fellow, ACTA

Anna Sillers serves as the data analyst fellow in ACTAs Trustee & Government Affairs Department where she oversees HowCollegesSpendMoney.com. She is responsible for examining education data related to college spending and tuition to understand how spending can hurt or help students and led the quantitative research for ACTAs The Cost of Excess. Prior to joining ACTA, she was an associate consultant for Manhattan Strategy Group, where she served as a researcher and data analyst for the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Labor. She holds a B.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke College and an M.P.P. from Georgetown University.

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Domino Data Lab, the enterprise MLOps platform company, is announcing updates to its platform that will drive accessibility to open source tools and techniquesincluding Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feasts feature store for machine learning (ML)allowing enterprises to see tangible value from their AI, sooner. The announcement is also accompanied by the launch of Domino Cloud, the fully-managed MLOps Platform-as-a-Service, and the general availability of Dominos hybrid and multi-cloud Nexus capability.

Now supporting Ray 2.0, an open source framework, Dominos platform features accelerated development and training of generative AI models at scale. The development process is further streamlined with Dominos auto-scaling compute clusters, paired with data prep via Apache Spark, as well as ML and deep learning with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and XGBoost.

The incorporation of on-demand, auto-scaling clusters and Ray 2.0 support in Dominos spring release accelerates both development and data preparation for teams at any scale. Ray speeds up the process by providing a unified, distributed compute framework that makes it easy to scale AI and Python workloadsfrom reinforcement learning to deep learning to model tuning, explained Chris Lauren, SVP of product at Domino Data Lab. This single-platform integration enables data scientists to be more productive by streamlining data preparation and model training from end to end.

The MLflow integration targets ML lifecycle management, enabling data scientists to more simply track, reproduce, and share experiments and artifacts directly within their Domino projects. Dominos security protocols are maintained across artifacts, metrics, and logs.

As data scientists iteratively explore which new breakthroughs in algorithms, fine-tuning foundational models, and tuning hyperparameters yield the best results, its important to track their progress in a consistently sharable way for model review and audits, said Lauren. Our customers can now leverage MLflow to automatically log key metrics and artifacts that help them manage experimentation at scale, streamline their work, and increase collaboration with other team members, team leads, or auditors.

Native integration of Feast within Domino streamlines access to query and transform ML functions. This introduces a cost-saving reusable feature logic across data science projects, further tracing feature lineage while simultaneously ensuring data accuracy and security.

The launch of Domino Cloud focuses on accelerating time-to-value for AI projects with scalable resources and a secure, governed, enterprise-grade platform, according to the company. The platform needs no setup or management investment, ensuring that data science workflows can maintain focus on more critical tasks. This solution allows teams to do more with less, reducing operational burden; customers only pay for compute used and can access GPUs and distributed compute frameworks.

In contrast to more limited fully managed data science platforms offered by cloud providers, Domino Cloud allows teams to integrate workflows and accelerate the full lifecycle from experiment to production. This means that teams can use end-to-end workflows with common patterns and practices, even if different users have different tool preferences, said Lauren. In this way, Domino Cloud is ideal for teams with an urgent need to scale AI while maintaining full access to the complete ecosystem of professional data science tools and scalable infrastructure they need to drive immediate business impact.

Domino is additionally announcing the general availability of Domino Nexus, built for enterprises with complex accelerated computing associated with generative AI projects existing throughout hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Workload deployment ranges from data centers to the edge, empowering enterprises with seamless workload migration.

Due in part to Dominos achievement of membership within the NVIDIA AI Accelerated program, enterprise customers are assured that Dominos platform supports the latest GPU and DPU technologies.

Once again alleviating cost pains, Domino Nexus is accompanied by a Vultr validation, enabling Domino Nexus customers to burst to Vultr Cloud with virtualized fractional NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs.

Our partnership with Vultr Cloud provides an exciting new opportunity for our customers to access the latest NVIDIA GPUs at a competitive price point. This further increases customers flexibility and choice in their hybrid and multi-cloud data science strategies, said Lauren. By offering more options from companies like Vultr, we're continuously evolving Nexus to support our customers' changing needs and helping them streamline their migration to the cloud or hybrid/multi-cloud strategies.

This Vultr infrastructure, working in combination with the NVIDIA NGC catalog, and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite helps enterprises reduce costs while driving innovative generative AI projects.

The Spring release of Dominos platform (Domino 5.5), as well as Domino Cloud and Domino Nexus, are available today. Integrations with MLflow and the Feast feature store are available in preview. The Domino and Vultr solution will be released later this year.

Dominos Spring 23 release unveils powerful new capabilities which give every enterprise access to cutting-edge, open source tools and techniques to achieve real business value from AI in a fraction of the time, concluded Lauren. No company, regardless of scale, needs to be without the tools to unlock new insights and capabilities, and allows them to drive innovation for the creation of new AI infused products and services that were previously beyond reach.

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The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute (NMDSI) will host its inaugural symposium, Untapped AI Next Frontiers, on Thursday, April 13, at Northwestern Mutuals downtown campus.

This event is free and open to the public and will focus on AI research, ethics, emerging trends and best practices. Attendees will hear from a variety of experts in the data science industry and academia and have the opportunity to network with industry peers.

The NMDSI is a collaboration among Marquette, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Northwestern Mutual with the goals of furthering research, corporate and community applications, and talent development in data science.

The event will kick off with a keynote address from Dr. Desmond Patton, a nationally recognized AI expert. Following, the NMDSI will host a fireside chat conversation with NMDSI leadership, including:

Attendees will then hear from a variety of NMDSI experts via a series of topical Lightning Talks.

The day will conclude with a student poster session highlighting students from Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as Northwestern Mutual employees, who will create and share posters to showcase their research projects.

Participants will present to attendees and judges and should be willing to answer questions and discuss their work.

Apply onlineto be a part of the poster session by Friday, March 31.

Join the NMDSI for a networking reception with refreshments during the poster session.

The event will take place virtually and in person at Northwestern Mutuals downtown Milwaukee campus.

Learn more and register via Eventbrite.

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On Tuesday, Prince Sultan University and Stanford University collaborated to launch the Women in Data Science Conference 2023 in Riyadh with the objective to encourage female participation and interest in the field of data science, engineering and computer science.

The conference is conducted annually in nearly 150 universities across more than 60 countries, showcasing the most current research and practices in data science.

Data science plays a crucial role in today's world as it enables individuals and organizations to extract meaningful insights and knowledge from vast amounts of data. It involves the use of statistical and computational methods to analyze and interpret data, and to identify patterns and trends that can be used to make informed decisions.

With that being said, the risk of running and implementing practices that do not come from a diverse perspective is high. Which is why plain and simple: we need more women in the field of data.

In KSA, have picked up on that and so, many renowned personalities and entities were in attendance such as Saudi Arabian and international researchers. In accordance with the agenda, they presented scientific papers and participated in dialogue sessions.

Several Saudi women that have excelled in this department were in attendance, such as Maysa Al-Qurashi. She is a Professor of Mathematics, with a PhD in Analysis from KSU. Her main focus within the academic field falls in Strategic Planning, Quality Assurance, Science and that is not even the most interesting thing about her.

Dr. Al-Qurashi has more than 60 publications in prestigious journal covering various fields of Mathematics and Analysis such as: Operator Algebras, Harmonic Analysis, Applied Mathematics and Biological Mathematics.

Another Saudi data superstar is Reem Alattas who was at the conference, is a director, SAP Value Advisory, Techpreneur, Inventor, NASA Datanaut, and Speaker. That is what her LinkedIn header says, but we are sure she is being humble.

This Saudi woman has successfully launched many innovative products over the years and raised capital across multiple funding rounds from investors. A household name, she is.

As for the conference, it included workshops and a datathon competition to evaluate the students' proficiency, while also promoting mentorship and interdisciplinary collaboration in accordance with technological advancements.

Vice President of Prince Sultan Universitys female campus, Heba Khoshaim, stated in the conference that these types of platforms are an opportunity to highlight womens achievement in the digital field, and to discuss and review the most prominent research and practices.

While Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Yamani, president of Prince Sultan University, said: The goals of the Kingdoms Vision 2030 and the initiatives taken in the digital field have enabled Saudi women to draw their own path in the data science field.

This is not the first time Saudi Arabia has launched an initiative to push for the field of data science, as a partnership was initiated in the past that yielded Saudi Arabias first female data scientists.

The largest university for women in the world, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), had partnered up with Dell, the American tech company, to train data scientists in the kingdom. That collaboration resulted in training 57 female data science and big data analytics students in one semester only, with an additional 103 students certified in cloud infrastructure.

With that training, we are on the right path to ensure data is not biased. The reason that the world, and not just Saudi Arabia, is pushing for female data scientists is that the analysis needs to be made from both genders, not only to ensure collaboration and innovation at all levels, but also to ensure inclusivity in decision making.

Data science is used in a wide range of fields such as finance, healthcare, marketing, and social media, among others, to improve business processes, develop new products and services, and enhance decision-making.

So, imagine having all this vast amount of data analyzed and worked on from just one perspective. Recently, weve written an article on how woman pain is dismissed (LINK ARTICLE), and now the kingdom is making those firm steps to rectify that through not only giving women a seat on the table, but having them head these conversations.

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