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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. And improvement is needed.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors colleges.

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ChatGPT: Threat or Menace?

Inside Higher Ed

The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. As Chamorro-Premuzic puts it succinctly, “If we want to retain an edge over machines, it is advisable that we avoid acting like one.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education.

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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

The implications of the work she does are far-reaching, delivering the best outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies. And that, that human connection is so important. Everyone else is sleeping, pretty much everywhere else on the planet. It really is.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist. So what can be done?