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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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The English Degree Is Great Job Preparation

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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A Dynamic Thinker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And I also work in the area of bioethics and the law, with a special focus on genetics, human reproduction, and mental health. Allen was vice provost for faculty at Penn from 2013 to 2020. This article appeared in the December 8, 2022 edition of Diverse.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually. In early 2022, Ron Cole, then Allegheny’s provost, released a staffing and academic programs plan that differed significantly from the task force report.

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Technology Partnerships and Higher Education

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

An article by Steve Wolfram breaks down what exactly is happening, but fundamentally, ChatGPT is just remembering what it's been fed and predicting the next word in a sequence. the research paper on which generative pre-training transformer (GPT) technology is based • Article by Steve Wolfram ("What Is ChatGPT Doing.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. I couldn’t have ever imagined that there was ever a possibility of me publishing an article one day.”

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Inside Higher Ed

By discipline, this concern is least prevalent among arts and humanities students (42 percent) and most common in the natural sciences (55 percent). Unclear expectations: This is a concern for four in 10 students over all, and most prevalently among arts and humanities majors, at 48 percent. What is lifeload?

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