Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. A good place to start is with the strange history of the banana , as illustrated by Ashley Buchanan in one of her Juncture-powered PHL pieces. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?: Yes In-Article Careers: 6 Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement? : Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race. But they never came.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2] Exploring ChatGPT. [1]

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Related article: The College Dream is Over (Gary Roth) Related article: When College Choice is a Fraud Related article: The Higher Education Assembly Line Related article: Academic Capitalism and the next phase of the College Meltdown Have you ever wondered why US student loan debt has soared past all other debt but mortgages, to more than $1.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. in theater history from The Ohio State University. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

One reason why there is so much horror whenever MIT becomes embroiled in the culture wars – see an example in a recent Wall Street Journal article – is because alumni and others are terrified that this will slow MIT down, or change its driving culture. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). I am beginning to think the only way out of this is to focus on the relational aspect of education.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. As others have shown in the recent past, not least Nick Hillman in his article on the Anderson Report in 1960, many parts of this expansion were already in train (Hillman, 2013).

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

After reading the article “Another Education Fight Over DEI Emerges…” on CNN.com, a daunting thought came over me. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Given the position held in the article, many questions come immediately to mind.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. As authors like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker have pointed out, humanity is better off by most measures—wealth, child mortality, education levels and more—than at any point in modern history.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

” They have no interest in the history and the conflict of that too vague term. For example, do they actually mean “the arts and sciences” or “the arts and humanities”? Professor Emeritus of English and History, and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies. 2022), 16-26. Ohio State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It is among the oldest examples of what Weiss calls an “encyclopedic” museum, aspiring to “collect art and archeological materials from the great epochs of human history across the vast geographies of the world.” How much they may overlap with those of a science or history museum is not addressed.).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. And it just isn’t.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Myers, director of the initiative and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, said the study of hate is an ambitious undertaking, but the purpose of a major research university like UCLA is to “ask big questions and seek answers that make an impact in society. ” Stern said. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. In history, degrees conferred fell from 884 to 725. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D. ” The “sharp drop" in humanities also stands out, Townsend said. Conferred Drop 5.4%

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

“Two students sought knowledge about human rights abuses and their university is punishing them,” wrote Audrey Truschke, associate professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University at Newark, who researches Hindu nationalism. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In November, the four students from Ukraine organized a presentation that introduced our campus community to their nation’s history, geography, culture, food, dress, songs, customs, dances, entrepreneurial spirit and educational system. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said. “We’re all familiar with visualization of data, but we’re not taking advantage of the incredible human ear, which has less fatigue than, say, if you’re looking at a screen for many hours,” Upthegrove said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

The chat bot is in such high demand that, during this time this article was written, it was at capacity.) For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. It will take unconventional practices and policies to undo a history of harms and truly foster a society where all people can achieve their full health potential. This article was published in our December 2022 issue.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

Gretchen Buggeln, a professor of art history and the humanities who serves on the collections committee for the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of the Indiana institution, said it’s “completely beyond the pale to use an arts collection as an ATM. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. ” The Nature Human Behavior paper certainly isn’t the first to warn that that relatively little progress has been made on faculty diversity.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

The split vote also split human relationships and political solidarities. I’m deeply saddened by the knowledge that I won’t again see most of the 180 undergraduate students who walked with me on a path through ancient world history last fall. 16, 2022. Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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