Afternoon Update: How to hire for innovation

Tim Walz's education record; OpenAI isn't releasing tool to catch cheating with ChatGPT; Bloomberg gives $600 million to HBCU med schools; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Afternoon Update Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS [Why This Innovation Expert Looked Beyond the Major When Hiring College Grads]( By Scott Carlson [STORY IMAGE]( A former executive for 3M on the importance of asking questions instead of making statements, and how to build teams that have a little friction. HARRIS'S CHOICE [Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Is Cracking Down on Online-Program Managers]( By Taylor Swaak [STORY IMAGE]( Before Vice President Kamala Harris named Governor Walz as her running mate, his state took a stand against OPMs. Here’s more about that effort. [Chalkbeat]( has more on Walz’s education record. RACE ON CAMPUS [Why Howard University Is Silent About Kamala Harris]( By Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez [STORY IMAGE]( Plus, the University of Missouri at Columbia is cutting its vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity, and equity. THE REVIEW | ESSAY [The Promises and Pitfalls of a ‘Global Humanities’]( By Eric Adler [STORY IMAGE]( Multiculturalism alone won’t save us. JUST UPDATED [Which Colleges Have Produced the Most Individual Olympic Medals in Paris?]( By Amelia Benavides-Colón and Nell Gluckman [STORY IMAGE]( With nearly 70 medals won by athletes who played at American colleges, the leaders are Stanford, Arizona State, Texas, Florida, and Virginia. Click here for a searchable list of the 26 other campuses. TEACHING [There’s a Tool to Catch Students Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn’t Released It.]( Technology that can detect [text written by artificial intelligence]( with 99.9-percent certainty has been debated internally for two years at the company, and has been ready for release for about a year. Meanwhile, faculty members have [struggled to contend]( with [how AI has changed]( their jobs, amid [age-old questions]( about cheating. (The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle) STUDENT UNIONS [NLRB Issues Memo to Colleges on Complying With Labor and Privacy Laws]( The memo, from the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, reminds colleges and universities of their obligations, under the National Labor Relations Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, to protect student workers’ privacy when they seek to unionize and a college discloses data on them to a labor union seeking to represent them. (NLRB) PHILANTHROPY [Bloomberg Gives $600 Million to 4 Historically Black Medical Schools’ Endowments]( Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former mayor of New York City, said he would give $175 million each to the Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, and the Morehouse School of Medicine; and $75 million to the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. He also gave $5 million to Xavier University of Louisiana. (Associated Press) TECHNOLOGY [Northwest Arkansas Community College Pushes Back Fall Term’s Start After Cyberattack]( The college said it would not pay a ransom that was demanded by hackers. But, it said, the semester will begin on August 26 instead of August 19. The college’s network has been shut down since the attack was detected last week. 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