Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment. PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. Students are always on their phones.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“This unique program combines King’s global leadership in digital humanities and psychology with the experiences of veteran and junior UX designers,” Mark Lester, chief partnerships officer at FourthRev , explained.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. Our responsive approach is something that I am immensely proud of; we worked together to keep education going, under the direst of circumstances. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the pandemic kept us all at home during the summer of 2021, I found myself reading things I might not normally have the time or inclination to read. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J. Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Four in five education professionals in the US say global engagement is part of the multi-year plan at the institution where they work, new research has identified. The company surveyed more than 250 US global education professionals in April 2023.

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 6, 2023

These latest courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees cover everything from accounting and IT to data science and software engineering. In addition, you’ll benefit from an industry ready curriculum, and develop job-ready skills through working on multiple industry projects. What will you learn next?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment. PhotoVoice is a visual method used to understand the world through the eyes of those experiencing it. Students are always on their phones.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

But as the sources are generally from the US, the book provides a reminder that these lessons are not limited to the UK or to our own labour market and productivity challenges. The book also usefully reminds us that commitments by employers to end graduate-only recruitment are often not meaningful. Upskilling and reskilling.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Rain not only nourishes, but it balances us, and makes us question our devotion to blue skies. This is an exciting and daunting responsibility that requires us to be able to celebrate both the sun and the rain. Consider the work that science faculty must do. It is raining today in Connecticut.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. At the same time, success in these roles increasingly depends on the ability to work creatively and collaboratively toward the pursuit of common goals.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

By field, arts and humanities students are likeliest to say they rely on deadlines (57 percent). Image: Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. But how do students define flexibility?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The reality is it might require us to rethink education altogether. As the studies showing devasting pandemic learning loss pile up , the answer is not to pile on more rote work, more classroom hours, more anxious test-taking, more passive note-taking. We might all be better off for it. Education is a social undertaking.

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Coursera blog

JULY 15, 2023

These latest Professional Certificates, courses, and degrees cover everything from accounting, IT, data science to software engineering and more. You will learn how to identify and analyze user and client needs while gaining the skills necessary to implement and create software-based solutions. What will you learn next?

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. You are the most technology-savvy person among my friends who are working in higher education. First of all, can you tell us how did you get interested in educational technology? Hello, Hanna.

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Arts or Science? Why arts at Guelph? See [link].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Journal of Public Health defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.” The pandemic has brought increased awareness of healthcare disparities.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Since then, he’s taught thousands of learners on the platform with the University of North Texas (UNT) in both the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences and the Bachelor of Science in General Business. Dennis, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us. Could you tell us a bit about your students?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stephen Marche tells us “ The College Essay Is Dead ,” while, in a separate essay for The Atlantic , Daniel Herman considers “ The End of High-School English. After all, if I were a student used to red ink on my essays, I’d happily submit this. Who knows what else it’s capable of?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including UC Irvine’s Outstanding Social Justice Activist Award, the Social Science Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Mentorship, and the UCI Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Faculty Mentorship. I still vividly recall C.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism. Will we allow it?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Virtual mobility has become a successful experience across her network in the US and South America – with simultaneous translation enabling students previously unable or unwilling to consider such an opportunity to do so. I have monthly meetings with all of our partners and so we’re able to check in.

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HEPI

APRIL 29, 2024

We have spent decades in university senior leadership, advising universities and, between us, more than ten years carrying the top responsibility as Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer at three universities in England. You can sign up here. Here we share a frame and some insights based on our experience.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Traditionally, assessment in higher education has mainly been standardized exams and course work pieces of varying degrees of realism. Will we allow it?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, examined the data and metrics colleges and universities are using—or should explore going forward—to gauge the value they provide to their students and other constituents. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And we did the first full degree program in e-commerce, the first master's of arts in teaching with the Internet. And we did low-residency, working online, then once a month coming to Brattleboro. And we did low-residency, working online, then once a month coming to Brattleboro. Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership.

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