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NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North Carolina spent a year mired in paperwork, tasked with reviewing applications from aspiring undergraduates. They never did get to meet with students.“Admissions work kind of took over what we were supposed to do,” Inman, 34, said. “I felt disengaged with the position, more so because I just didn’t feel valued.” It’s disorienting…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North Carolina spent a year mired in paperwork, tasked with reviewing applications from aspiring undergraduates. They never did get to meet with students.“Admissions work kind of took over what we were supposed to do,” Inman, 34, said. “I felt disengaged with the position, more so because I just didn’t feel valued.” It’s disorienting…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North Carolina spent a year mired in paperwork, tasked with reviewing applications from aspiring undergraduates. They never did get to meet with students.“Admissions work kind of took over what we were supposed to do,” Inman, 34, said. “I felt disengaged with the position, more so because I just didn’t feel valued.” It’s disorienting…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North Carolina spent a year mired in paperwork, tasked with reviewing applications from aspiring undergraduates. They never did get to meet with students.“Admissions work kind of took over what we were supposed to do,” Inman, 34, said. “I felt disengaged with the position, more so because I just didn’t feel valued.” It’s disorienting…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North Carolina spent a year mired in paperwork, tasked with reviewing applications from aspiring undergraduates. They never did get to meet with students.“Admissions work kind of took over what we were supposed to do,” Inman, 34, said. “I felt disengaged with the position, more so because I just didn’t feel valued.” It’s disorienting…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North Carolina spent a year mired in paperwork, tasked with reviewing applications from aspiring undergraduates. They never did get to meet with students.“Admissions work kind of took over what we were supposed to do,” Inman, 34, said. “I felt disengaged with the position, more so because I just didn’t feel valued.” It’s disorienting…

Key US RegTech investment stats in 2024:US RegTech funding dropped by 28% YoY in 2024Californian companies dominated the US RegTech space with four of the top 10 deals during the yearNinjaOne, a Texas-based RegTech company specialising in endpoint management, security, and compliance automation, secured the biggest US RegTech deal of the year with its $231.5m Series C funding roundUS RegTech funding dropped by 28% YoY in 2024In 2024, the US RegTech sector secured $5bn in funding across 228 deals, marking a 28% decline from the $7bn raised in 2023 and a 45% drop in deal volume compared to the 413…

Epos Now, a global AI-driven point-of-sale (POS) provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Lloyds Cardnet, one of the UK’s largest card payment service providers.The collaboration aims to enhance payment efficiency for UK businesses by integrating POS and payment processing into a seamless solution, according to FF News.The partnership is designed to support entrepreneurship and business success by offering merchants a robust yet flexible payment acceptance platform. This integration will help businesses adapt to evolving customer needs and market demands.Epos Now has developed a custom-built integration for Lloyds Cardnet, ensuring a smooth connection between merchants’ POS systems and Lloyds’ payment…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — As we darted through Addis Ababa’s morning rush hour, my jet lag couldn’t dull the energy of Ethiopia’s capital.We wove through crowds of office workers headed to high-rises and families leading goats home for Orthodox Christmas feasts while our guide explained how one needs at least three weeks to fully experience his country. From the dramatic peaks of Simien Mountains National Park to the sprawling salt plains of the Danakil Depression, natural wonders alone could fill a month of adventure.But there’s also plenty for time-pressed travelers like we were. “With a few days, you can…

Pruna AI, a European startup that has been working on compression algorithms for AI models, is making its optimization framework open source on Thursday. Pruna AI has been creating a framework that applies several efficiency methods, such as caching, pruning, quantization and distillation, to a given AI model. “We also standardize saving and loading the compressed models, applying combinations of these compression methods, and also evaluating your compressed model after you compress it,” Pruna AI co-fonder and CTO John Rachwan told TechCrunch. In particular, Pruna AI’s framework can evaluate if there’s significant quality loss after compressing a model and the…