Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has donated an additional $350 million to Harvard University to support the research center that bears his name: the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. Increasingly, I've become convinced that the answer to this question should be "yes."

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

However, forward-thinking institutions can boost graduate employability and underscore their contemporary worth by embedding industry-recognized professional certifications within their curricula. This erosion of faith stems partly from universities’ overemphasis on abstract knowledge. Today’s universities enjoy no such insulation.

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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. Here are some common challenges to implementing AI on-campus networks: Legacy Equipment: Most AI technology will require modern equipment and higher ed is known for legacy technology due to limited resources.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions. Lab and an assistant professor of marketing at Pamplin.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Press coverage of recent cryptocurrency disruptions and the significant staff reductions at Twitter and Meta is giving pause for thought amongst investors and futurists, as well as university leaders considering the future of the Metaverse. I received some negative feedback for comparing 3D Cinema and VR technology adoption curves.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a recent video conference, Chris Rowell engaged Helen McAllister and Jo Bloxham from the University of the Arts London (UAL) Language Centre in an enlightening discussion about the use of machine translation tools by university students. The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E).

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As might be expected, the Ivy League Pluses were responsible for producing the majority of leaders across sectors such as law, media and academia. However, colleges and universities offering premium programs in specific trades like engineering and agriculture helped diversify the list.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Former University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) Chancellor Dr. Rebecca Blank died Feb. Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. She held a Ph.D.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

This week, we welcome Marc Watkins, Academic Innovation Fellow from the University of Mississippi. Marc joins us to discuss the potential of AI in digital learning and to highlight the amazing work happening at his institution to prepare faculty and students for a future that includes working with AI.

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

Now more than ever, schools should be leaning into their educational missions and taking the long-game approach of implementing digital literacy training to help students operate safely and effectively in their uber-connected world (yes, that’s a technology pun). The threat So, why are universities banning TikTok? How can you?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Black students were more likely to graduate from institutions at which the highest degree offered was a master’s degree.

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2023

After a long and demanding search for George Washington University’s 19th president, the Board of Trustees has officially recognized Dr. Ellen Granberg to the position. George Washington University marked its 200-year anniversary in 2021 during a time of uncertainty, but school leaders believe they have turned a corner.

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MindMax

MARCH 18, 2024

Moreover, the rapid pace of change in technology means that learners may be better off dividing their investment in education over a period of years to keep up with the latest trends. After spending years in the Greater Boston area, a hub of academia teeming with colleges and universities, I relocated to upstate New York.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Oftentimes, we consider alumni for one thing—helping our institutions with development. Alumni possess a dynamic blend of experiences, insights, and connections that can serve as a catalyst for transformative change within colleges and universities. Different institutions have found innovative ways to engage their alumni effectively.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But if the many doomsday projections actually come to fruition, losing Twitter will be a sad day for academia. In a frequently alienating world of academia, that is huge. In addition to aiding in research discovery, Academic Twitter has become a go-to resource for locating job postings, both in academia and beyond.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

During the 2020 global pandemic, Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) were challenged with maintaining access to learning and student attendance. 2016); however, the model should be accompanied by a course design that applies the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to augment accessibility. Representation.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Oftentimes, we consider alumni for one thing—helping our institutions with development. Alumni possess a dynamic blend of experiences, insights, and connections that can serve as a catalyst for transformative change within colleges and universities. Different institutions have found innovative ways to engage their alumni effectively.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Delving into the dynamic crossroads of technology and education, this episode shines a spotlight on the transformative power of structural disruption. Drawing parallels between the seismic shifts in the entertainment industry and today’s higher education landscape, this discussion underscores the urgent need for academia to adapt.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 17, 2024

As an Authorized Instructional Platform, Coursera’s assessment framework, course design, and teaching and learning experience meet ACE’s rigorous psychometric, technology, and information security standards. For learners, ACE credit recommendations can: Make it easier to earn academic credit for courses taken outside of academic institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Fostering student success takes institutional leadership and collaboration. Barrington Price, Dominican University’s vice president of student success and engagement, knows this well—because he was a struggling first-generation college student himself. Q: What attracted you to your role? Many work full-time.

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University Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Colleges and universities are always actively seeking ways to boost their retention and persistence rates. Rowan University (N.J.) is joining the first cohort of colleges to license the new technology and curriculum. But for Mike Matthews, vice president of innovation and technology at Oral Roberts University (Okla.),

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University Business

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Its ability to reduce workloads to a fraction of what it once was for students and faculty and administrators alike is invigorating forward thinkers to leverage the technology even more. Here are a few ways the University of Utah is creating socially responsible AI by reducing bias, according to Manish and his team at SCI.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says. While a recent report has discovered that the nation’s most selective institutions have regressed in enrolling first-year Pell Grant students by 2% in the past decade, Middlebury has increased its cohort by 9%.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Northeastern University will open a campus in Miami in 2023, the Boston-based institution announced Tuesday. The campus—the university’s 14th—will be located in the city’s Wynwood neighborhood and will offer more than 20 graduate programs with a focus on technology, health care and finance.

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PeopleAdmin

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Human resources teams in higher education institutions face a unique set of challenges when it comes to recruiting and hiring, as they must continually adapt to changing trends in academia, technology, and workforce expectations, along with shifting perceptions of HigherEd as a workplace.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“DisruptED aims to generate competencies within the ministry to lead the country into a future that raises the concept of innovation in education to unprecedented levels,” said Hind Al Tair, director of the Department of Science, Technology and Scientific Research and deputy head of the Innovation Committee at the education ministry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Iit also entails social privilege--being able to say “no” to claims upon one’s time from members of one’s family, community or institution—and cultural privilege: all the different ways of knowing and writing that not everybody acquires. I know how privileged I am, and I make it my business to share that privilege as widely as possible.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

In doing so, the company will try to convince its significant subscriber base in higher ed and beyond that it has the solution—or at least an essential piece of the solution—to the latest technological threat to academic integrity. “This is a technological arms race.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Gerald Carter Title: Assistant Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University Age: 39 Education: B.S., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Western Ontario; and Ph.D., Seek out constructive criticism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

During a time when educator retention is experiencing a sharp decline, the data suggests a trend of positive experiences and feelings by educators who are making moves to stay in their field, even as new concerns are emerging in academia. percent are Latinx work at bachelor's granting institutions. Only 5.2

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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. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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