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    AI in Education and Workplace

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    25 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

    In the architecture world it is a nice tool already for code questions. It’s great for helping produce graphics. Eventually, probably already is capable, it will help with clash detection between consultants. It won’t replace drafters and architects but it will make them more efficient. My view has always and will always be, if you rely too heavily on AI you will suffer consequences and become dull. It’s just a tool but I know there will be a lot of lazy people out there that will have it do everything for them and they’ll sit back and get dumber every day.

    Are you currently using NavisWorks for clash detection?  I can see Navis getting more AI driven.

    AI in Education and Workplace

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    As AI threatens white-collar work, more young Americans choose blue-collar careers

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    Experts say the skilled trades — jobs like electricians, plumbers, welders, masons, HVAC technicians and other occupations requiring extensive training and often licensing — are attracting a growing number of young people put off by high tuition costs.....

    ....More recently, signs that artificial intelligence is starting to gobble up the kind of entry-level jobs that once went to young college graduates are also leading young workers to consider the trades. Some 77% of Gen Zers say it's important that their future job is hard to automate, with many pointing to professions like carpenter, plumber, and electrician as occupations they believe are safe from automation. By contrast, they see less security in fields like software development, data analytics, and accounting, according to the survey.

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    More recently, economists also point to a jump in unemployment for recent college grads, which some experts say is an early warning sign that AI is taking jobs away from less experienced workers. The jobless rate for 23-to-27-year-old college grads this year now hovers around 4.6%, up from 3.2% for the same demographic in 2019. 

    Strikingly, non-college-educated workers in the same age range have experienced a much smaller uptick in unemployment, at roughly 0.5%, over the same period, according to an analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 

     

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    AI in Education and Workplace

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    I have been having conversations with my children and friends about what AI means for their future and which jobs will be impacted the most and least by AI. 

    My children are of the age where they will start choosing careers.  I have a daughter that I was pushing toward paralegal a couple of years ago, since she had a mind for that type of work.  She thankfully wasn't interested.  I met a judge at a conference last month who told me that with AI, paralegals wouldn't be really needed anymore.  Most of the research will be done with AI.  He even said that he had AI produce a judgement for one of his cases, just to test it.  Results were in line with what he had determined.

    I have a son in college and he hears other students using ChatGPT for their studies/papers.  The instructors see this as inevitable.  Education will suffer.

    I was talking to an associate last week regarding fire alarm design.  He said that there is a CAD program update with AI coming out that will review your drawings and provide comments, typically what a reviewing engineer would do.

    I see the trades as being somewhat immune to AI.  How will jobs such as marketing and finance do in the AI workplace?  Other jobs?  Thoughts?

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    Enrollment

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    Nice piece on how UND got to where we are today...Record enrollment just part of the story

     

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    Johnson agreed. Of course, any and all of the leaders mentioned above, he said, would quickly and rightly point out that lots of people have helped UND achieve its success. Likewise, the North Dakota Legislature played a vital role, as have the donors and many others who’ve helped the campus upgrades, beautification and other aspects of renewal come about.

    “But the point is, UND has not simply been thriving all along,” Johnson said. “Eight years ago, we went through a massive budget cutting exercise, and we wound up losing lots of people.”

    UND’s careful and continued renewal since then was neither accidental nor preordained, Johnson said. Instead, it resulted from higher education leadership at its best – a textbook example of the right people, not just the right individuals, in place across the UND campus and the state at the right times

     

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    Enrollment

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    Overall some nice increases.

    Enrollment up nearly 4% at North Dakota public colleges, universities

    North Dakota University System fall 2025 enrollment

    Table with 5 columns and 12 rows. (column headers with buttons are sortable)
    Campus Headcount % change since fall '24 Full-time equivalent % change
    Bismarck State College 4,549 8% 3,086 10%
    Dakota College at Bottineau 1,242 3% 622 5%
    Lake Region State College 1,916 1% 945 4%
    North Dakota State College of Science 3,681 9% 2,477 7%
    Williston State College 1,175 11% 791 3%
    Dickinson State University 1,374 -3% 1,100 -2%
    Mayville State University 1,215 7% 857 8%
    Minot State University 2,747 0% 2,188 3%
    Valley City State University 1,827 1% 1,178 -1%
    North Dakota State University 11,952 0% 10,455 0%
    University of North Dakota 15,844 5% 12,451 6%
    Total 47,522 4% 36,150 4%

    Search for a New Head Coach

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    2 hours ago, yzerman19 said:

    kermit, dead gophers and badgers, the old barn with a smoke filled concourse...my dad had a secret parking spot on University ave we used to run to the rink in the freezing cold...

    I will never forget the dead badger swinging out of the rafters in front of the press box. 

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    The Ralph

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    I wasn’t sure where to put this, so I started a new topic. I am watching the Minn/Mich State game which is being played at Mariucci and couldn’t help but notice the shadows of the players and locations where the light hits the ice. I pulled up the highlights from last nights UND game at the Ralph and see very little of the shadowing. It seems that the lighting is distributed better at the Ralph.  One of those things you don’t notice is very good until you see it not so good somewhere else. 

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    Conference Realignments - Take 2

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    4 minutes ago, cberkas said:

    9 (Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, BC, and Arizona State)

    Thanks. I wasn’t trying to be lazy. I just figured someone already had the answer. 

    So if there is to be a reorganization of the NCAA, how is hockey to be handled with only 9  P5 schools? 

    UND Research Developments

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    University of North Dakota Wins $517K Cyber Research Grant

     

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    The research group has been awarded $3.5 million for the project, with UND receiving $517,000 for its share. The project is attached to the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

    "There's been a big push from the administration about how we can put UND on the map in cybersecurity," said Prakash Ranganathan, an associate professor of electrical engineering and director of UND's Center for Cyber Security Research. "We're trying to grow, and part of that is going after federal dollars."

     

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