Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

Campus leaders had to rethink the digital learning resources available, and faculty had to rapidly adapt to changes in delivery methods while keeping students engaged. It prioritized achieving sustainable and adaptable VR integration that synergistically addressed evolving program and student requirements.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. Controversies surrounding math education are not, of course, confined to California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

In schools across the nation, there has been a heightened awareness of the need for students to earn postsecondary degrees – as there is substantial evidence that it leads to better labor market outcomes and a higher quality of life. 2019; Monarrez & Washington, 2020). Hines, Fletcher, & Moore, in press, p.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But some opponents of the new police force, including JHU students, university and medical employees, and members of the larger Baltimore community, are objecting to the town halls. “Hopkins engineers very closed and stage-managed town halls and does not execute any changes based on these town halls.”

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Firstly, education is a fundamental human right that should be accessible to all, regardless of gender. in the area of “engineering and technology”. Breaking this down a little further, the proportion of female professors varies across disciplines, with women comprising 50.5% But we’re not there yet.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

They discuss the states of their fields and mentor 200 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students from around the world selected in a highly competitive process. Every hour in 2019, more than three artificial intelligence preprints were submitted to arXiv—an open-access repository of electronic scientific preprints.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

W&M’s exploration of an expanded presence is the direct result of faculty interest, established and growing student demand, and the needs of the Commonwealth – all of which are longstanding. In the data science program, which just began in 2020, the number of degrees conferred went from eight in 2021 to 35 in 2022.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. One method for teaching students in any discipline how to write prose that flows is to ask them to write stories, and that’s what I’m advocating here. By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our learners have been asking for opportunities to acquire and practice a range of human skills; to gain competencies that will help them contribute to solving big challenges in our societies; and to engage with specialized industry skills and tools. Open online courses allow us to scale the impact of immersive learning.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. One method for teaching students in any discipline how to write prose that flows is to ask them to write stories, and that’s what I’m advocating here. By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

Tailoring all our presentations and events allowed students to open up and be their authentic selves.”. While students in the program receive scholarships, that’s just the beginning. The University of New Hampshire has taken a somewhat different approach. including 66 M.D./Ph.D.s, We think that’s pretty cool.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Restructuring Higher Education for Today’s Demographic Traditional higher education structures were designed for a different demographic, and they often hinder institutions from adapting to the needs of today’s students. Student-Centric Approach To overcome barriers and enhance enrollment, adopt a student-centric approach.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

The repetitive work they are doing now would be replaced by the software over time, freeing up the human brains for other things that human brains are particularly good at. ” If you’re teaching students how to program in python, you need a python programming environment simulator. But probably not.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The list would certainly include test-optional admissions, tuition resets, increasing discount rates, student loan abatement and proposed loan forgiveness, the decade-long enrollment decline, the hype surrounding AI and ChatGPT, and the controversies surrounding college rankings, not to mention the upcoming U.S. percent over 2021.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This will enable marketers to maximize their benefits while being mindful that, similar to any other technology, biases and potential risks are ingrained in their design, underscoring the importance of human agency. Something similar happens with images generated by AI.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By 2030, there are estimated to be 380 million students studying at universities around the world. UK institutions have a total staff and student headcount of approximately 2.3 make the case for universities being the engines of transformation to a more sustainable future, the “ living labs ” for Sustainability (Purcell et al.,

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

Podcast Highlights NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines is a $44 million investment that promotes competition and exploits the innate potential of the region through partnerships. About Our Podcast Guest The Honorable Sethuraman Panchanathan is a computer scientist and engineer and the 15th director of the U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony on Capitol Hill last week , followed by the arrest and suspension of over 100 pro-Palestine student demonstrators, has ignited a new wave of fiery campus protests across some of the country’s most reputable schools, including Yale, MIT and NYU.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Murphy’s son Blake—who grew up to be a lawyer for the National Republican Congressional Committee —had been assigned to read Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved almost a decade ago when still a high school student. Yes, I am a university professor, but before that, like every teacher, I was a student.

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