Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes Towards the end of the fall 2022 semester, when most faculty members were immersed in grading final exams and winding their semesters down in eager anticipation of the holiday break, an unfamiliar form of intelligence crept into our classrooms. OpenAI released ChatGPT with little pomp or ceremony on November 30, 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When ChatGPT, the large language model (LLM) AI that can generate long, detailed answers to complicated questions, was first made accessible to the public in November 2022, it changed the landscape of education forever. “As Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Published in September 2022. Living through our current human-caused climate emergency while continuing to muddle our way through a global pandemic, it is sometimes difficult to believe in progress.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. Inside Higher Ed caught up with 11 academics to ask how to harness the potential and avert the risks of this game-changing technology.

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

Western Sydney, Deakin and Central Queensland universities will become the next to set up campuses in Indonesia, following the successful opening of Monash’s Jakarta campus in 2022. As its dynamic and rapidly modernising economy grows, its human capital and research needs also continue to grow,” Zhang noted.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

AI has certainly been a topic of much debate in higher education, sparked by the launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022. Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. Education technology and AI: what’s next? James Gray.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital. Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. At each point in history, Native Americans have been dynamic agents of change.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. “Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Help Raise Your Leadership Game bridget Thu, 09/21/2023 - 06:00 Podcast Higher Ed Leadership Weekly Wisdom To celebrate this year’s International Podcast Day , the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) revisits the most popular episodes of our Innovating Together Podcast from 2022 and 2023. Click here for full audio.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

To celebrate this year’s International Podcast Day , the UIA revisits the most popular episodes of this podcast from 2022 and 2023. The Rewards of High-Level Collaboration Our conversation with Dr. Michael Rao on February 7, 2022, served as our official reveal that Virginia Commonwealth University had just joined the UIA.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even US news outlet NPR reported : It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been taken up by a white male. There has been much talk about the diversity of Liz Truss’s new Cabinet. table id=15 /].

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? What if we were to look back at higher education in 2022 a decade or so in the future? In fiscal 2022, total state support for higher education increased by 8.5 Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Even though the public tends to regard academic history as boring and irrelevant, as a seemingly endless train of facts, dates and names, large numbers of people enjoy popular history. The public is also attracted to accounts that expose the flaws in Hollywood’s history. How are wars won?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? That gentlemanly definition drew a stark contrast between a liberal education, grounded in the arts and humanities and especially the classics, and a more practical, applied, vocational, or pre-professional education. Which degrees earn the most?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A truncated view of history blinds us to an unsettling reality: that criticisms of colleges and universities as bastions of elitism and as threats to social order are as old as the counternarrative that celebrates higher education as a fonts of truth, preservers of wisdom and cultural achievement, and drivers of social mobility.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. In 2022, he earned a Diversity and Inclusion Award from Minnesota Lawyer and made the Lawyers of Color ‘s “Power List” in 2020 and 2023. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

I admire the disrupter culture that’s part of today’s technology sector. These things remained true in December 2022, but we didn’t gather in a lecture hall on that last Friday to reflect, ask new questions and collectively brainstorm final papers. I study change and change makers. and South Africa.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. ” “Do not include homework … as any part of grading.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Scores of Stanford University students reportedly used it on their fall 2022 final exams mere weeks after its release. In these early days of the GPT spread, we are largely defenseless against this novel threat to human intelligence and academic integrity. Place a stronger focus on the classroom and human interactions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There is a whole history of disparity there, health disparities even prior to the pandemic. Lee says one of the department’s solutions for adapting to the pandemic was to provide technology scholarships that enable students to purchase tech items with which to do their research and assignments at home. program. “But

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.” By offering more courses that showcase the practical value of the humanities. Use technology creatively. How would such a vision be achieved?

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Helix Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

While the financial markets saw a great upturn in the final month of the year (in comparison to 2022’s dismal drop), we had a flat #GivingTuesday. Focus on donors who have multi-year history with more expensive appeals. In today’s complex technology and giving environment that’s a tall order. But remember, you’re not alone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

He takes the time to meet with his Latinx learners, to sit with them, discuss the challenges they face, and share his own history with them. It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Advice Newsletter publication dates: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Diversity Newsletter publication date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Trending:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history. Advice Newsletter publication dates: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Diversity Newsletter publication date: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Trending:

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 15, 2022

The slave trade was the largest mass movement of people in world history and contributed significantly to sub-Saharan Africa’s underdevelopment. But its long-term effects on the South were highly negative, discouraging urbanization, technological innovation, industrialization, immigration, and a diversified economy.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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