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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

How might this precept apply to higher education? The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. Priorities conflict.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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The Invisible Student Majority

Inside Higher Ed

Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. But students started a petition and the university dismissed him.” Are students’ study habits declining? Has a consumerist mentality among parents as well as students eroded professorial rigor and autonomy? Read: “At N.Y.U., Who Was to Blame?”

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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

Misalignment between courses, accumulation of excess credits and seemingly dead-end degree options have impeded momentum for students aspiring to transfer for too long. Governor Gretchen Whitmer famously ran on a campaign promise to “fix the damn roads,” and today, orange barrels are sprouting seemingly everywhere in response.

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An online surge at Virginia Tech. But what about outcomes?

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The first time Stefan Duma offered his in-person Concussion Perspectives course at Virginia Tech, 50 students enrolled. The next time, 100 students enrolled, followed by 250 and later 500. More than 1,000 students signed up. That is, the online format may provide students with opportunities to engage.