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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. In numbers, 52,250 research doctorates were awarded across fields in 2021. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic. production in 2021 to COVID-19.

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ChatGPT Wrote This Article and then Totally Stole My Job!

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I’ve been fascinated by the rapid progression of ChatGPT article fads: Look at this weird thing that writes stuff! I asked ChatGPT to write this article—and it totally did!!! Or magazine articles? The post ChatGPT Wrote This Article and then Totally Stole My Job! End of the world or totally awesome?????

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Dr. Lesia L. Crumpton-Young, Texas Southern University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

President of Texas Southern University (TSU) since June 2021, Dr. Lesia L. She was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering and is among the first African American women to become a full professor of engineering.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

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In 2021, it started to provide VR resources for the campus community through the Center for Advancement of Learning (CAL). 2021) show that VR can improve students’ learning experience and promote their cooperation and creativity in classes. Computers & Education, 159, Article 104005. 2018; Zhao et al., & Abadia, R.

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To Mitigate ChatGPT Plagiarism Look No Further than its References

Faculty Focus

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented. DOIs went to different articles of different disciplines. The articles simply did not exist.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

I recall clearly that we undergraduates in the late 1960s were under pressure to major in engineering, business, pre-med, or pre-law. First, pressures on young people from middle school forward to concentrate in engineering, computer science, or business for job security only increased. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 ” ‘Stopping the Bleeding’ Although freshman enrollment is on the rise, overall enrollment remained nearly unchanged from fall 2021, declining by 0.6 percent, and in 2021, it decreased by 6.7 percent in 2021. and 2 percent. percent and 0.2