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. 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.

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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. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the short few weeks that professor Alex Lawrence has taught his sales technology course this semester at Weber State University, he finds the level of discussion his students are already having “remarkable.” These educators think you’re looking at it wrong appeared first on University Business.

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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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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.” in polymer materials from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and a Ph.D. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S.

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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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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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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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HEPI

APRIL 16, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Stephanie Marshall , Vice-Principal (Education) at Queen Mary University of London. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about a host of new challenges for universities. You can register your place here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Despite being immensely privileged with respect to other K-12 teachers, whose ranks I left to join academia, and to the growing number of non-tenure-track colleagues at UPR, my teaching and activist commitments leave me very little time for scholarly production.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. These are the real impacts.” of non-LGBTQ people.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Indeed, as we track our students’ success, we know that knowledge-based jobs carry the greatest status and rewards (think technology, finance, medicine, law), while more human-focused jobs, even though they all make more use of technology and data today, pay less and carry less status (think education, social work and criminal justice).

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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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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

SRHE News typically contains a round-up of recent academic events and conferences, policy developments and new publications, written by editor Rob Cuthbert. We … offer recommendations for agencies, universities, and publishers to mitigate the impacts on researchers.” publications/srhe-newsletter. or rob.gresham@srhe.ac.uk.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Economically developed countries have created a “triple helix” of collaboration between academia, government, and industry, according to panelist Dr. Vincent Idemyor, a professor at the University of Port Harcourt. We do not need to deceive ourselves,” he said, telling of universities that lacked 24-hour electricity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about books such as DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz, The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education From the Inside Out by Clayton Christensen and Henry J. There are numerous others. (The

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 22, 2023

The organization also advocates for the engineering profession, representing its members on policy issues, and collaborating with industry, government, and academia to promote innovation and growth in the engineering sector. In addition to supporting its members, Engineers Ireland advocates for the engineering profession in Ireland.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: “This website contains language that is offensive or harmful,” a Stanford University Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative website stated in December. Following the backlash, the university hid the website from public view on Dec. “Please engage with this website at your own pace.”

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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 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. The creation of this Ph.D.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The agency of humans is constrained by the people, technologies and materials we are bound to or surrounded by. Karen: Teaching that does not include interactions between students and teachers or students and peers and that is transmission focused suits many of the traditional tiered teaching spaces that still dominate UK universities today.

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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. Worse, in this new era of economic, geopolitical, rapid technological advancement (e.g., colleges and universities face enrollment crises. Meanwhile, a significant and growing percentage of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

While there are other organizations out there who do more traditional tuition reimbursement, we think that the combination of expertise in program design that eliminates cost and debt for learners, our technology, our coaching investment, and our deeply integrated learning marketplace is unique in the market!

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. Create shared norms and goals.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: A Harvard University professor who was publicly scorned in 2014 over his reaction to being overcharged for Chinese takeout didn’t earn tenure. On Tuesday, that now former associate professor, Ben Edelman (at right), sued Harvard over that rejection. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. We must invest in research and technology if the country wants to attract global talent and compete internationally.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. Create shared norms and goals.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Through this lens we can glimpse how, as educators, we must work with a larger amalgam of discourses, bodies, ideas, objects, tools, technologies, and institutional structures and processes to negotiate and construct practice and meaning for the purposes of learning. 2007) Meeting the Universe Half-way. Duke University Press.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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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. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

Economic and workforce development is the most pressing issue on many higher education stakeholders’ minds this year as they push for state policy partial to their interests. But artificial intelligence’s potential has imposed competition on a much larger scale than academia. National University (Calif.)

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Image: When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person attendance. Amid this debate, learning and classroom policies are morphing in real time. Louis, said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13 February · Episode 194 Adapting to Disruption: Unity University's Remarkable Success - Part 1 34 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Discover how Unity Environmental University thrived under Dr. Melik Khoury, embracing disruption for significant growth and sustainability in higher ed.

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