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3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet. Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. What does the role of Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning entail?

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Yike Guo. Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022.

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. But also as co-founder of a spin-out company building on IP I co-invented as a professor.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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3 Questions With Marni Baker Stein, Coursera’s New Chief Content Officer

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Like many of you, I know Marni Baker Stein. Q: What inspired you to move to an ed-tech company after a career in academia? After college, I worked on several United States Information Agency–sponsored initiatives. In December, she joined Coursera as its new chief content officer.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

We asked how she’s met these opportunities: “When I think about my role as Provost at Florida State University , at that point in my career, I was not at all certain that I wanted to be a university president. When I left for a provost job at University of Missouri , I was excited about a new opportunity at a Midwestern university.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.” ” It’s a tough read.