University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. International students comprise 30 percent of the student body. The institution has a storied history.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”). “Is

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

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. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Unionization efforts among higher ed student workers have risen immensely, amid an ongoing downward trend in overall workforce union density – the percentage of union members in the workforce, according to a new report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. workers continues to fall.

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SRHE

MARCH 28, 2024

by Samantha Wilkinson Feedback has been heralded the most significant single influence on student learning and achievement ( Gibbs and Simpson, 2004 ). Despite this, students critique feedback for being unfit for purpose, considering that it does not help them clarify things they do not understand ( Voelkel and Mello, 2014 ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has announced Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole as president-in-residence, who will serve as co-chairperson of the organization’s capital campaign. Cole was the first Black woman to serve as president of Spelman College, which was founded specifically for the education of women of African descent.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Universities face increasing scrutiny from politicians who would like to dictate what students may learn in the classroom. Although academia has plenty of valid causes for concern, I also believe the next generation of university leaders has many reasons for optimism. in 2023 for students who entered in fall 2022—a new record.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This narrative is not only bad for our students’ mental health, it is also an ineffective strategy for building a lasting movement for change. Fortunately there are practical steps that colleges can take to make climate action compatible with personal well-being. Partner with local governments.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

Businesses are hungry for AI-powered growth, students eagerly adopt new tools, and the ethical compass risks getting lost in the scramble. Nearly 80% of students surveyed in the QS Generative AI Student Pulse Survey 2023 use AI platforms for their studies. AI is no longer a buzzword in lectures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. Just two days later, on September 22, in Gallatin, Tennessee, Volunteer State Community College announced that Orinthia T. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured. Dr. Crystal A.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Both Sapolsky and Pinker hold the floor for the entire time while the students listen and take notes.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

We are also seeing educators and students adopt AI faster than previous disruptive and transformative technologies. However, human knowledge and expertise have a limit and cannot adapt to the real-time network needs of a campus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. This is where AI shines.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Too often, we hear administrators complaining about their teachers being unprepared/under-prepared to work with Black students. We have to really take a step back and think about who's training the teachers with degrees, certification, and licensure -- and that is college faculty. Will they face the same repercussions?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

school counseling, University of Maryland, College Park; and Ph.D., Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I Moore, III, The Ohio State University; Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

Jakobsen is the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York. After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. Jakobsen, the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College in New York, says students continue to be a driving force for her.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. She is also a first-generation student. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.)

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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. Point Foundation Scholars “Students posted videos on Tik Tok of them having to pull down the rainbow flag and to shutter the doors,” says Hall. The center director had to be reassigned to a new role on campus.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Better financial support for student parents. These are just a handful of the asks, both big and small, that students will make of their colleges and universities on Oct. Free at-home pregnancy tests. Time off to get and recover from abortions. Wade was overturned just over 100 days ago.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. Both Sapolsky and Pinker hold the floor for the entire time while the students listen and take notes.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Q: How does being a first-generation, low-income or undocumented student play a role in student success?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. ’” Mozafari told the student, who had been struggling with a major depressive episode triggered by trauma, that there would be no penalty for assignments turned in late.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When students took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize UCLA on behalf of professors who advocated for their participation at a pro-Palestine teach-in on the recent Hamas-Israel conflict , the university quickly responded to cut down anyone’s belief that it intentionally endorses such an event. How does this impact higher ed?

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. The former engineer proved a natural as president.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

And he’s urging his more than one million followers to do the same, prompting concerns about targeted harassment of the graduate student, Eli Erlick. ” Erlick, a longtime trans youth activist and founder of the group Trans Student Educational Resources, isn’t a stranger to the far right.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. Further, students may not develop the skills necessary for original ideas and critical thinking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

The course of Carlos Galan’s academic career was changed by a single question from a high school student. It was 2021, and Galan was working in a summer bridge program, supporting teenagers who were applying to college. I cannot believe everyone is white,” the student said. students. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To meet the growing demand, many are developing distinctive degrees, certificates, and other programs that help graduate students, faculty, and workforce professionals develop the required skills. The UK College of Education’s doctoral program focuses on applying innovative DEI approaches across complex institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This chilling exclamation encapsulates the growing atmosphere of fear in which many Chinese students in the UK find themselves. Many find themselves quickly labelled either ‘panda-hugger’ or ‘China-basher’.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Besides, the humanities cloak an intensely practical side beyond the analytical and communication skills they grow: Shakespeare teaches us statecraft, after all. For many liberal arts colleges as well as humanities-focused departments in larger universities, it’s a pressing one. Perhaps that’s part of why the number of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

She feels it’s important to share her stories with women — in and out of academia — and build community with other scholars. I was always very conscious of the small number of Black women in the profession, in academia, but then in the discipline of political science,” she continues. Morgan, JCSU vice president for academic affairs.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. Further, students may not develop the skills necessary for original ideas and critical thinking.

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