Hacker News with Generative AI: Universities

Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum (huntnewsnu.com)
On a university level, what makes for a good computer science curriculum?
'I received a first but felt tainted': inside the university AI cheating crisis (theguardian.com)
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system
Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds (bbc.com)
Oxford Electric Bell (wikipedia.org)
The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell, in particular a type of bell that uses the electrostatic clock principle that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since.
Student rocket group shatters amateur space record (viterbischool.usc.edu)
Aftershock II, the latest rocket designed and built by the student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has broken the international altitude record – reaching further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.
Australia's top university to halt international student admissions next year (msn.com)
Universities are not just businesses, but an investment in future generations (nature.com)
Many UK universities are in a financial crisis. But the government is leaving them to flounder, treating higher education as a private-sector industry and research as a public investment.
Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor (nbcnews.com)
The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and their families with respect.
Elon Musk acquires the university formerly known as Stanford (stanforddaily.com)
This is MIT and yes, we have bananas (technologyreview.com)
Stanford's top disinformation research group collapses under pressure (washingtonpost.com)
MOOC – free courses from University of Helsinki (mooc.fi)
Stanford Follows Harvard, Yale in Reinstating Standardized Tests (bloomberg.com)
Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest (blogspot.com)
What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud? (danielcompton.net)
No One Knows What Universities Are For (theatlantic.com)
NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul (statnews.com)
Texas A&M Qatar campus to close by 2028 (qatar.tamu.edu)
Louisiana's flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price (theguardian.com)