Friday Follow Up
Gen AI and the impacts on graduate early career earnings and on search traffic
Phil Hill
August 01, 2025
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With every transformation, there are positive and negative impacts. Change is a messy process, and it is becoming more and more apparent the depth of changes from gen AI that are indirectly hitting higher education. While the stories below are largely negative in tone, don’t interpret them as AI is bad. Interpret them as change is happening whether we want it or not, so we need to be ready.
Questioning Higher Ed Value: A real issue
The Wall Street Journal (gifted article link) had an article this week looking at the impact of AI on early-career hiring trends, largely based on data from Burning Glass.
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