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Study Reveals Family Support Critical in Reducing Faculty Anxiety in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The research team, including Dr. Anietie Andy from Howard University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, analyzed data from 2,106 professors across 62 U.S. Having at least one parent who worked in academia emerged as a novel protective factor, especially for faculty in STEM and Humanities disciplines.

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The blueprint for colleges and universities in the new world of work

University Business

However, academia hasn’t caught up with these current technological advances, including AI. The urgency for academia and higher education institutions to recognize the rapid changes in the job market and the need for immediate adaptation is pressing. There also needs to be a human-centered focus in schools.

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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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The Case for Government-Backed Science Publishing

Academe Blog

Few outside academia realize that these publishers enjoy profit margins rivaling those of the movie and music industries. Vannevar Bush, science advisor to President Roosevelt, envisioned research as the engine of economic growth. Here’s why. In 2023, Elsevier—the largest player—posted profits of 38 percent.

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Making an impact at scale

HEPI

False positives can arise in a manner of ways, but we can split them into three categories: statistical error, human error, and fraud. For example, say we trial an intervention with Engineering students before rolling it out across the institution.