Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. By sequencing I mean the arrangement of events: what happened first, and what follows next. By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. But notice that the events unfold out of sequence.

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HEPI

MAY 13, 2024

In current discussions of the value of humanities research, two concerns come across most strongly: the extent to which humanities research creates skills, and the extent to which humanities research is financially lucrative for individuals, the government and the economy. The second is rediscovery.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. By sequencing I mean the arrangement of events: what happened first, and what follows next. By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. But notice that the events unfold out of sequence.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion ( Palgrave Macmillan ), Robert T. Hobbits are not magical or supernatural; they are, basically, small humans. And when their world goes into upheaval, their stories naturally resonate with human experiences of massive change.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A critical mass, a superspreader event, is clearly forming. In these early days of the GPT spread, we are largely defenseless against this novel threat to human intelligence and academic integrity. Place a stronger focus on the classroom and human interactions. Rather, we are at a pivotal moment in the history of education.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new age of ‘super diversity’ and ‘minority majority’ cities proclaimed The Guardian, as it cited Leicester in an article about the 2021 Census data. As we strive to create a more fair and humane society, the values of compassion, of justice, and inclusion enrich our University and mark our commitment to create a better world. .

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Campus Sonar

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their stories of success and persistence can help humanize a higher ed brand. After the tournament ended, UMBC grew its student population by 18%, or just under 2,000 additional students, marking the most significant admissions shift in the school’s history.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Many of those stewarding our institutions are concerned that students are too often being taught what to think instead of how to think, particularly about current events and history. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Leadership through Engineering Academic Diversity (LEAD) Iowa State University College of Engineering LEAD supports multicultural and international students who receive on-going communications about events, resources, check-ins, and reminders. LEAD fosters academic success, social networking, and access to industry professionals and mentors.

Arts And Sciences 98

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

An article by Steve Wolfram breaks down what exactly is happening, but fundamentally, ChatGPT is just remembering what it's been fed and predicting the next word in a sequence. the research paper on which generative pre-training transformer (GPT) technology is based • Article by Steve Wolfram ("What Is ChatGPT Doing.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

” It was initially created with the blessing of college administrators to host events and programs after several professors raised concerns that the campus had a liberal bent, said Matthew Garrett, a professor of history and a founder of the institute. That’s a fact of life with human nature and so forth.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Me : Just visit a medical school and you’ll be amazed by how extensively these professional schools already make use of simulations including virtual cadavers, hearts, and brains as well as surgery simulators -- leaving those plastic toy human anatomy kits that children have played with in the dust. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal is to create “communities of teachers who are doing this work together and are helping each other,” said Karen Petrone, a history professor at the university and co-director of the Holocaust Education Initiative. " She also couldn’t decide on what aspects of the Holocaust to focus.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Toews’s imaginative reconstruction, inspired by true events, reminds us of the importance of talking in the aftermath of violence, what Amanda Hess calls the “intellectual life of the survivor.” Yes In-Article Careers: 6 And then there are the adolescent boys: What to do about them? Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.” ” A Look Back American has seen its fair share of such events in recent years. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 17, 2023

Celebrate Your School’s Awards and Achievements on LinkedIn Sharing your school’s history and accomplishments is a great way to involve prospects with your community. Doing so can help you solidify your school as the ideal destination for prospects studying in a certain field while also humanizing your school’s brand.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

reading a relevant book or article. For example , an undergraduate history course provides an ungraded, self-test quiz at the start of every online unit that allows students multiple attempts at answering a question and provides prescriptive feedback for each attempt. a video about a course or topic. a workbook to preview. References.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. This test will push your students to think about how they perceive events in their lives. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

reading a relevant book or article. For example , an undergraduate history course provides an ungraded, self-test quiz at the start of every online unit that allows students multiple attempts at answering a question and provides prescriptive feedback for each attempt. a video about a course or topic. a workbook to preview. References.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

” Jeff Kallay: So if we’re intentional to go to a place-based education with community, we’re being human up in that community and we want to show that on the campus visit. But we had had so many visitors that we were able to yield the biggest class in Sewanee’s history even in the middle of a pandemic.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. This test will push your students to think about how they perceive events in their lives. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Emanuel, the oncologist and bioethicist, once published a widely circulated article entitled “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” To be sure, Biggar embraces the liberal tenet that all parties to public debate should affirm a commitment to human dignity and to conducting political and policy debates in a reasoned and civil manner.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors. The intensifying crisis of the humanities. The decline in the number of humanities majors—by half over the past decade—is old news. Let’s do the latter.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

She sat down with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about what has shaped her as a leader, reversing higher ed’s tendency toward elitism, how leaders and institutions can grow through traumatic events, and the value of being present and making the best possible impact. She earned her B.A.

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ACPA

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He’s written several really great articles and done some studies on various experiences and student engagement, especially when it comes to international students. And one of his articles is called educational experiences associated with international students learning, development and positive perceptions of campus climate.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Image: Shelly Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed this week about what it is like to be the first Native American chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities , the federal agency charged with supporting research and education in the humanities. There is no one moment where you think, “Oh, that’s humanities!”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron told us how this human factor has been the hardest challenge to navigate as a leader: "I've been incredibly blessed to work with inspirational and meaningful folks. We co-authored an article together, and we ended up with this frame: the core of good leadership is getting grounded, getting real, and getting going.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Example: Oxford University ensures that all visuals use similar branding elements, from social media posts to visual content embedded in their blog and news articles. This is because the human brain processes visuals much faster than text. Source: Oxford University Need help putting a visual content strategy together?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

She co-founded the Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee, which proposed and won an on-site childcare center and which continues to sponsor events on women’s issues in science. Around the same time, according to the lawsuit, Fitz, the provost, informed Vitetta she’d have to complete her first posttenure review ever.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Even though the public tends to regard academic history as boring and irrelevant, as a seemingly endless train of facts, dates and names, large numbers of people enjoy popular history. The public is also attracted to accounts that expose the flaws in Hollywood’s history. How are wars won?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

She was one of three DEI employees who have resigned from the institution over the past 18 months due to what they described as a lack of institutional support for their work, according to a December article in the student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Earlier this spring, Demian Hommel, co-author of this article, devoted a class to discussing how the risks posed by AI might affect students’ personal and professional aspirations and what they could do to enhance their own resilience in the face of change. Advances in technology are inevitable.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Earlier this spring, Demian Hommel, co-author of this article, devoted a class to discussing how the risks posed by AI might affect students’ personal and professional aspirations and what they could do to enhance their own resilience in the face of change. Advances in technology are inevitable.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hank Reichman, a professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay, raised concerns about Confucius Institutes when he chaired the American Association of University of Professors’ Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. “It is the committee’s hope that this study will contribute to safeguarding U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Not by asbestos or toxic chemicals, mind you, but by far more noxious substances: racism, sexism, and anthrocentrism.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Emerson further defined the duties of the scholar as: The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances… He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature. We acknowledge this part of academic history every time we don these robes for formal events.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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