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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

As my side gig ground on, my editor kept demanding that I churn out articles in about 20 minutes. I was being paid $25 an hour to write three short articles on topics related to car care and travel. ” and “Where’s a 2012 Mini Cooper’s battery location? Attention to detail is essential.

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Where Higher Ed Should Be More Businesslike

Inside Higher Ed

They are what Cecilia Orphan and Kevin McClure call in a recent article in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning , “anchor institutions,” which act as hubs of employment, activity and economic opportunity for the people living in the community. The labor structures of academia combine the worst of all worlds.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Amid backlash, Stanford removes "harmful language" list

Inside Higher Ed

I don’t think that it’s any secret that libraries, especially in academia, are not very diverse places. “It may not be easy to find this reporting form or the harmful language statement. It could be that folks don’t feel comfortable reporting anything.

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Reports of this issue go back decades: see, for example, this 2002 article in Science , which asked, “What will it take to create a single employment class (status) for all postdocs, regardless of funding source?” Not a New Problem. Kimbis Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. Since 2012, UNF has recognized the outstanding work of faculty, staff, and students in DEI through the Presidential Diversity and Inclusion Award. This article was published in our November 2022 issue. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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Pivotal Moments in Higher Education DEI

Insight Into Diversity

(Photo courtesy the Birch Bayh Photo Collection of the Indiana University Libraries) In 1972, the passage of Title IX legislation marked a pivotal moment in the pursuit of gender equity within academia. This article was published in our October 2023 issue. Supreme Court injunction.