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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

As the news broke, another prominent researcher at Harvard University, lauded for her research on dishonesty, was placed on administrative leave for her allegedly fraudulent research. Unfortunately for the world of academia, these are not isolated incidents. The post Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

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Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

Within weeks of its release, the program amassed an unprecedented 100 million users, setting a new record for the fastest technology to reach this milestone. Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet.

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Universities: Guardians of ethical AI?

HEPI

The use of AI and machine learning in administrative tasks, such as admissions, has necessitated further measures to eliminate biases and ensure equitable treatment for all. However, success demands bold action, collaboration beyond academia, and continuous reassessment of their own evolving relationship with this transformative technology.

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For the first time, over 25% of the world’s 200 best institutions are led by women

University Business

Their exit from the world of elite academia means that the U.S. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses for decades, so it’s high time we’re starting to see more gender and racial diversity reflected in the highest roles in academia.” However, the number of women U.S.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. The interwoven relationship between workforce readiness, business and industrial development, and academia has existed since the beginning of public education in the United States (McNamara, 2009).

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Becky inspired faculty, staff and administrators with an approach to problem-solving that combined vision, creativity and pragmatism." in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bush administration; member of the council during the Bill Clinton administration; and deputy secretary and acting secretary of the U.S.