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The Promise and Challenges of AI in Higher Ed

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Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom. Faculty at dozens of other institutions have been granted access to the course through course licenses and scholarships.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Blank’s economic work focused on low-income labor markets, macroeconomics, government policy, and the measurement of poverty. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Becky inspired faculty, staff and administrators with an approach to problem-solving that combined vision, creativity and pragmatism."

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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

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SRHE News typically contains a round-up of recent academic events and conferences, policy developments and new publications, written by editor Rob Cuthbert. The problem is magnified by the academic publishing industry and by academic institutions, pleased to pretend that peer review is safeguarding scholarship.

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

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The PM has delivered changes to the way government works, with for example the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. We must invest in research and technology if the country wants to attract global talent and compete internationally. Yet the UK has a problem in innovation, decades in the making.

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