Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!” And vice versa.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Collins Dictionary named ‘AI’ as their word of the year for 2023. Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. AI has certainly been a topic of much debate in higher education, sparked by the launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., in response to user prompts, there is no ignoring the flurry of both concerns and hopes for its use in a variety of professional fields.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

For example, many people use face recognition to unlock their cell phones or enjoy programming their GPS to know where they are going, and many ensure autocorrect is on to boost their spelling (Reeves, 2023). To the delight of some, and the horror of some, AI was at the forefront of educators’ minds in 2023.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

What was particularly new about the Robbins Review was a costed proposal for more money which promised by reference to nascent Human Capital Theory to be self-financing through growth in productivity. Inflation is high and reducing slowly (Hooker et al, 2023).

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#Deaning

MARCH 19, 2023

Ajay Heble (Humanities) See this story in The Canadian Press, [link] And the U of G story is here, [link] Congrats Ajay! ◾Join us for an art-filled day in Guelph with MFA Open Studios and the 2023 Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art featuring Maureen Paley! link] The building is open all weekend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, the nation witnessed two Black women presidents die within days of one another. Institution-sanctioned violence presents in the form of violence by shaming, invalidating, degrading, forcing, controlling, and denying Black women the opportunity to simply exist as whole human beings. It was a life-saving measure. It is a loss.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

The rest is history. In recognition of his commitment to inclusive excellence, servant leadership, and his devotion to lifting up the disenfranchised in the community college space, Gonzales has been named a 2023 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award. And I said, ‘No, you’re just a human being that’s never gone to college.’”

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. But now in 2023, Italy felt the need (briefly) to ban ChatGPT (due to data protection fears) and some universities, including here in the UK, have tried to bar their students from using it.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Tyler Cowen speaks to students and faculty about “The Economics of Articifial Intelligence” on September 7, 2023, In the Great Hall of the Memorial Union as a part of the Iowa State Lecture Series Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. “We

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. This article was published in our September 2023 issue. Read about them here.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

The short book does cover that history briefly, but goes deeper into racism and struggles to overcome it in her life in Texas. It also gives a deep history of how racism was built into that state’s structures from the first settlers who came to Texas from what became the Confederacy to a state constitution that favored some over others.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Northwest African American Museum : Showcasing African American art, history and culture in the PNW. Blackpast.org : Largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African History on the Internet. We come together each February to celebrate Black history. Woodson in 1926 into Black History Month in 1960.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Rochester’s Black studies program is designed to integrate various disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, to explore the historical, cultural, psychological, economic, and political aspects of people of African descent in the “Atlantic world,” which includes the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. One might attribute this quiescence in the humanities to an aging professoriate or to shrinking doctoral programs and departments and increasing reliance on adjuncts.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. A theory of human motivation. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? Bridges, M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

“Baylor University is to be commended today for this recognition of two sainted, pioneering African American bearers of human dignity and intelligence,” said Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert, professor of homiletics at Howard University and son of Robert and Elwayne Gilbert. “In 4, 2023, to be Rev. In memorializing my father, Rev.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Orozco is a professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico at Ruidoso and author of Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist ( University of Texas Press ). Some would-be heroes remain uncelebrated.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Resist Believing in the Existence of a ‘Teaching Machine’ The first part of this recommendation is to read Audrey Watters’s Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning , which covers the long arc of people believing that machines can—and even should—replace the human labor of teaching.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. We read, Weinstein wrote , because “important books shine a unique beam on human behavior, thought and feeling.”

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

The announcement yesterday that three Australian universities will set up campuses in Indonesia is great news for our two countries pic.twitter.com/HkABUy4sH6 — Jason Clare MP (@JasonClareMP) July 4, 2023 “Australia and Indonesia, working together, are committed to meeting the challenges and opportunities of the future,” Albanese added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

10 Must-Listen Podcasts to Raise Your Higher Ed Leadership Game bridget Thu, 09/21/2023 - 06:00 Image Podcast Higher Ed Leadership Weekly Wisdom If you work in higher education leadership, you really should know about The Innovating Together Podcast , created by the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) in partnership with Inside Higher Ed.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

An associate professor of medicine, medical ethics, health humanities, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine and director of its Humanities Expression and Arts Lab, who also moonlighted for McSweeney’s, the non-profit publishing house, Nuila is the son of a Salvadoran immigrant. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The gift is among the largest in the history of NYU’s Washington Square campus. Scheduled to open in 2023, the facility will include new classrooms, a proscenium theater, rehearsal spaces, practice rooms, common areas, athletic facilities, a freshman dorm, dining areas and faculty housing. At 735,000 square feet, the John A.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Throughout their history, HBCUs have been engines of economic empowerment and transformative in playing an outsized role in society by fostering personal and professional growth, promoting social justice, and empowering individuals to become game changers in the world. They still do. They still matter.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. A theory of human motivation. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? Bridges, M.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” in a 2023 Primary Research Group survey of instructors on views and use of the AI writing tools. ” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. Then came GPT-4.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. For instance, let’s look at how and why it is easy and purposeful in 2023 to live in the United States disengaged from particular groups.

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