Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. million Andrew W.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

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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OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. The integration of AI in education holds great potential for transforming teaching and learning experiences (Hussain et al.,

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. As others have shown in the recent past, not least Nick Hillman in his article on the Anderson Report in 1960, many parts of this expansion were already in train (Hillman, 2013).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Motivate learners to post relevant articles, resources, and personal insights, enriching the collective learning experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). This concept has been written about by others, namely Peter Felten and Leo M.

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APRIL 18, 2024

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on February 19, 2024 © Magna Publications. If you are interested in reading more articles about the trends, challenges, and best practices of today’s academic decision-makers, check out a monthly or yearly subscription to Academic Leader! All rights reserved. What is the U.S.

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APRIL 18, 2024

This article first appeared in Academic Leader on February 19, 2024 © Magna Publications. If you are interested in reading more articles about the trends, challenges, and best practices of today’s academic decision-makers, check out a monthly or yearly subscription to Academic Leader! All rights reserved. What is the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This article synthesizes the results of my own scholarship of teaching, and wide range of literature and studies, to determine the six most powerful ways to “cultivate” the attention of students for greater success in learning. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020). References Bramer C. 29(12):677–683. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2020.29.12.677.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020. ” Accounting for time to tenure, the researchers estimate that between 2013 and 2020, 45,309 Ph.D.s

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Approved in 2019 for individual schools and in 2020 for the conferences, it requires that D1 institutions and conferences complete a DEI review every four years. In the following years, internal NCAA committees led by representatives of member schools developed the policies that would lead to the current process. says Wilson. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

While overall charitable giving was up by 4 percent from 2020 to 2021, those numbers fell to -0.7 ” The only year better than 2021 for overall education philanthropy—not just higher ed—was 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic began. billion for education in 2020 and $70.8 percent when adjusted for inflation.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2020, Spain’s Supreme Court ordered the University of Barcelona to publicly denounce its statement of support, which six other universities had also backed. ” University staff assemblies in Spain are supervisory bodies, with members elected from different faculties, although not necessarily in proportion to their size.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This article synthesizes the results of my own scholarship of teaching, and wide range of literature and studies, to determine the six most powerful ways to “cultivate” the attention of students for greater success in learning. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020). References Bramer C. 29(12):677–683. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2020.29.12.677.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. As a department head, I typically only teach one class per year. Friedman, J. Gorton, N., & & Lovenheim, M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the winter of 2020, while COVID-19 was just beginning to crawl its way across the globe, there was a palpable sense in the United States that the utter catastrophe that COVID has turned out to be, with over one million dead Americans left in its wake (and counting), simply would not happen. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: By most accounts, the March 2020 switch to emergency remote teaching and learning was rough on students, faculty members and staff workers. But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. Student mental health suffered, existing inequities were exacerbated and many missed a sense of community.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Nguyen (2020) calls this cognitive state “a voluntary, sustained, goal-driven process” (par. As Tyng et al. Some suggestions follow.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Motivate learners to post relevant articles, resources, and personal insights, enriching the collective learning experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2023

When Congress voted in December 2020 to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated Americans after a 26-year ban, advocates hailed the move as an opportunity for 760,000 people in prison to achieve a better life through education. I don’t want to be a naïve bleeding heart. I get that there are people who did bad things.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This article will explore how educators can move away from this kind of pathological approach to better help autistic students succeed academically. 2020), and 2) focusing on person-centered mental health interventions (see Crane et al., 2020; Parr et al., Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158. Cassidy, S.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2023

Five years later, he became the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, a post that he held until Alzheimer’s forced him into retirement in 2020. Charles was a tireless advocate for civil rights, equality, human dignity, and social justice. Staff Writer Jon Edelman contributed to this article. Guy-Uriel E. Ogletree, Jr. I liked that.

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HEPI

MAY 2, 2023

Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination This short article is designed to provoke thought. Above all, how might it deliver the depths our unpredicted human understanding that is the core of Surrealism and beyond GPT-4? As Herbert Read says in The True Voice of Feeling (p.152)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

percent of member institutions limit the number of one-on-one counseling sessions students can attend, usually per semester or year (AUCCCD did not measure this in its 2020–21 survey). A 2019–20 survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors found that 45.6 Learning the Skills.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Emotions were considered “an additional variable” indicating “irrational aspects” of the human brain not relevant to cognitive functions of the brain (Zhao & Song, 2022, p. Nguyen (2020) calls this cognitive state “a voluntary, sustained, goal-driven process” (par. As Tyng et al. Some suggestions follow.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Tenure is no ivory tower,” Max McCoy, a tenured professor of journalism who was among those terminated by Emporia State, wrote in an article for the Kansas Reflector last month. Juliet Shields is a professor of English at University of Washington at Seattle and spent last year as professor of humanities at Northumbria University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The study, produced by the National Student Clearinghouse and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, followed 143,215 students who were enrolled in 467 institutions that closed between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2020. percent—and more Pell Grant recipients as well.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Hopkins began laying the groundwork to establish its own police force in 2018 but temporarily halted those plans in 2020 amid the nationwide protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hines According to Singh, Appling, & Trepal (2020): “The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) ask counselors to “apply knowledge of multicultural and social justice theories” (p. Dr. Erik M. Dr. Erik M.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games. For writing, you can feed ChatGPT specific prompts to generate an article title, topic outline, even the entire piece.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm. percent, from 308,567 professors in fall 2019 to 281,932 in fall 2020, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

This article will explore how educators can move away from this kind of pathological approach to better help autistic students succeed academically. 2020), and 2) focusing on person-centered mental health interventions (see Crane et al., 2020; Parr et al., Journal of Medical Humanities , 26 (2/3), 141–158. Cassidy, S.

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