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. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Interestingly, while many universities have developed policies around generative AI, the more pervasive use of machine translation often goes unnoticed. Policy and Guidance Development Helen highlighted how some universities are grappling with issues of authorship, learning outcomes, and misconduct related to machine translation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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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. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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Humanities Technology Advise Academia 90

WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Participants returned to their departments with enhanced capacity in AI literacy to teach students AI fundamentals, evaluate AI-generated content, and develop educational applications and policies that explored proactive approaches to generative AI. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. But many others remain behind bars, said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, a U.S.-based

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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. Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” “WPI is a world-class institution with a unique and vital approach to teaching, learning, and discovery.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. But local governments have significant influence over policies affecting climate change—from bicycle transportation planning to housing density, tree planting, energy use and nature conservation. Teach social change.

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SRHE

JANUARY 26, 2024

by Jess Pilgrim-Brown University discourse, policy, and practice has focused increasingly on access, widening participation and inclusion over the course of the last thirty years ( Heath et al , 2013 ).

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Inclusivity Administration Environment Higher Education 87

HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. However, policies at government and university level have yet to catch up with this surging number in the context of the deterioration of relations with China. Get our updates via email.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

University of Kentucky At UK’s College of Education, the PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in DEI serves as an important tool in training future generations of DEI leaders in academia. This article was published in our November/December 2023 issue.

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Leadership Degree Inclusivity Academia 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2022

Think of how temperature rises, the intrusion of salt into fresh water, and the arrival of new diseases can sabotage agriculture, which then leads to human misery and economic dislocation. Humanity responds to pressures exerted through the primary and secondary vectors, and these responses engage the academy.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” Lawrence is one of academia’s earliest adopters of the controversial ChatGPT AI in the classroom, and thanks to it, Lawrence has witnessed a sizable elevation in student comprehension of class curriculum at a very early stage of the spring semester. “Human writers draw from our experience, judgment, and intuition.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

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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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What is the role for human agency in these types of assemblages with human and non-human actors, so as not to feel helpless or a “cog” while respecting the need to de-centre the human? The agency of humans is constrained by the people, technologies and materials we are bound to or surrounded by.

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Humanities Higher Education Technology Inclusivity 52

WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

Medina is a molecular biologist focused on the research on human neural development. – Russ Poulin, WCET Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color by Lorgia García Peña Academia is often called out for its many issues around race. Did you know WCET has a podcast?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

refugee policy from the European children who fled the Nazi peril to the Central American children who arrive every day at the southern U.S. This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia.

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SRHE

JANUARY 20, 2023

She debated how discursive constructions of mobility may influence who can access academia/higher education, who can gain recognition, and who can establish a feeling of belonging. There is increasing concern that internationalisation practices and mainstream policies reproduce global inequalities and already uneven relations and geographies.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. Policies will only get you so far.

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Inclusivity Faculty Faculty Development Policy 112

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Academia is a calling. ” Dr. If the elite graduate schools had wanted to stave off unionization, they needed to put into place a real system of shared governance that gave doctoral students a far greater voice in shaping institutional policies, especially involving stipends and benefits. New HR systems have to be put in place.

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Faculty Humanities Academia Professional Development 82

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” That question has been asked more frequently, and more frantically, since the March release of the fourth evolution of ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence that has demonstrated an uncanny talent for imitating human language and thought. The newest model has already aced the Arizona bar exam and passed a Wharton M.B.A.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Assemblages In this final symposium, we shifted the focus by using the lens of ‘assemblages’ to examine the expanding range of contemporary HE learning spaces and the heterogenous collection of material and non-material, human and non-human elements that compose them. Sam is a PFHEA and National Teaching Fellow (NTF, 2021).

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Humanities Higher Education Professional Development Environment 76

eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

This denial of economic opportunity causes a well-intentioned policy to fail to live up to its economic and humanitarian aspirations. Instead, let’s look at this purely from a policy perspective. Canada’s labor shortages are hardly unique, as anyone who has been paying attention to the US economy knows.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. We often don’t allow ourselves these moments of connection because connection requires vulnerability and vulnerability goes against everything we’ve been taught about expertise, authority, and credibility in academia. Policies will only get you so far.

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Inclusivity Faculty Faculty Development Policy 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Opportunities arose for her to get more involved with science, technology and public policy. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

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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. Ultimately, these efforts will increase the holistic well-being and academic success for all students.

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Schooling Students Degree Academia 97

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

via Stephen Wolfram Writings, 2/124/23) Bios of Guest and Co-Hosts Guest: Drew Magliozzi , CEO, Mainstay Andrew Magliozzi is a social entrepreneur, educator, and web developer, aspiring to help people learn and live better lives with the help of technology and human instruction.

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Technology Higher Education Education Retention 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia.

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University Administration Administration University Leadership 28

The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

This approach also allows the institution to tap specific talents, skills, and knowledge that a board member may have, such as finance, technology, human resources, or marketing. According to NC Policy Watch, conservatives on the board thwarted his reappointment. These board members are political appointees who decided that I wasn’t.”

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Model Higher Education Education Leadership 52

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In June, Harvard University announced a $200 million gift to launch the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, an academic center dedicated to the study of one of humanity’s most pressing threats. Policy makers, journalists and the public deserve to understand the full context in which academic work is produced.

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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. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages. Northwestern Now.

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Humanities Model Technology Engineering 87

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. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages. Northwestern Now.

Humanities 75

Humanities Model Technology Engineering 75

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Cole is widely recognized for her contributions to academia and advocacy for social justice. Cole will serve as an ambassador for the campaign and advocate with UNCF-member presidents and her own network to help identify new supporters. She is no stranger to conducting successful capital campaigns.”

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Advocate Academia Empower Scholarship 114

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2023

After three decades in academia, Dr. Janet R. In the early 1980s, between undergraduate and graduate school, she was a policy analyst and an organizer on environmental issues, housing and shelter, and anti-apartheid. Her academic focus includes religion and politics, feminist theory, queer theory, ethics, activism, and public policy.

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