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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. That’s 2,974 fewer than in 2020. awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic.

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

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As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. “Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said. “The human ear can hear sounds coming from all directions and parse those streams extremely well.”

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. And we could talk about the kinds of roles that students in arts and humanities played, which often were leadership positions, either management or C-suite offices. That gave us a different way to think about it.

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

” One panel on the cost of academic dissent featured an empty chair for Mike Adams, a professor who died by suicide in 2020 after the University of North Carolina at Wilmington paid him $504,000 to retire following several speech-based controversies. Let’s avoid. Let’s talk about bank embezzlement, right?’”

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

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National Science Foundation (NSF). Senate on June 18, 2020. So, I had a much deeper and more insightful view of NSF, having served on the National Science Board. When this opportunity presented itself in 2020 to become nominated for the director of the National Science Foundation, Drumm, I was thrilled.