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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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Our recent series of blogs on AI intriguingly all had one argument in common, which is that we need to respond to AI in a nuanced, rather than blanket, way and to learn as we go.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E). Catherine Mason, an expert in this field, has delved into the history of this evolution, focusing on a central question: Will machines amplify or supersede the artist?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. What was particularly new about the Robbins Review was a costed proposal for more money which promised by reference to nascent Human Capital Theory to be self-financing through growth in productivity.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A recent correspondent shared a memorable quotation from the Nobel prizewinner Ernest Rutherford: “That which is not Physics is stamp collecting.” There are those, like my correspondent, who regard the humanities as lightweight, and consider STEM the only source of meaningful knowledge.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Priya Madina, Director of External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis. This blog provides viewpoints from Taylor & Francis , a global academic publisher and draws from remarks shared at the roundtable to open discussions. There are many global challenges that we face.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. The post Coursera Launches GenAI Academy to Improve Executive and Foundational Literacy appeared first on Coursera Blog. Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs? I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements?

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Northwest African American Museum : Showcasing African American art, history and culture in the PNW. Blackpast.org : Largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African History on the Internet. We come together each February to celebrate Black history. Woodson in 1926 into Black History Month in 1960.

History 52

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps as an undergraduate you read Oscar Wilde’s mirthful, satiric essay “The Critic as Artist.” 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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Liaison International

JUNE 8, 2023

Browse these links and see where you’d like to start, or listen and learn more about the gay community’s history with a podcast or documentary. Advocate: Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

BY RODOLFO ROSALES Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship recipients have formed a community in which we can share the products of our knowledge, our talents, our research, and our work in the arts, humanities, and sciences—along with many other intellectual accomplishments across the disciplines that have been significant in establishing our footprint (..)

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma David Copperfield (1850), the most autobiographical of Charles Dickens’s novels, begins with one of literature’s most famous lines: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Emotions are on the bestseller list – and for good reason. Emotions, in Mesquita’s eyes, are culturally specific – and this idea has had far-reaching impact across the humanities and social sciences. Products of history. No longer are emotions the exclusive preserve of psychologists.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Living through our current human-caused climate emergency while continuing to muddle our way through a global pandemic, it is sometimes difficult to believe in progress. Published in September 2022.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For the first time in human history, individuals and organizations can manage and trade their assets digitally peer to peer. It examines current trends in leadership theory invoking several disciplines, including business, sociology, philosophy, history, and psychology. University of London | Consumption, Marketing and Culture.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting The leap in capability between ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) ” we should instead be questioning whether or not the things we ask our human students to do are genuinely meaningful experiences related to learning. For example, GPT-4 scores near the 90th percentile on the LSAT and the bar exam.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask ChatGPT why you should read fiction and it will spout literature’s many benefits: entertainment, increased empathy, cognitive stimulation and learning about different cultures, historical events and social issues. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android.

Arts And Sciences 85

Arts And Sciences Humanities History Technology 85

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The Gospel of John opens with one of the New Testament’s most evocative yet cryptic phrases: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right. But these phrases also allude to words’ immense power.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Time is of the essence.

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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.

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totallyrewired

JANUARY 27, 2024

This is quite a long blog post, much longer than I usually do but there is quite a lot to reflect on regarding the short course called the 12 Days of AI. Indeed, there is a long history of using machine learning and AI in creative spaces in art education in UK art schools.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

AI-ASSISTED COURSE BUILDING POWERED BY GENERATIVE AI – Based on a few simple inputs from a human author, a new set of AI-powered features can auto-generate course content — such as overall course structure, readings, assignments, and glossaries — to help educators dramatically reduce the time and cost of producing high-quality content.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

History will record the 2020s as not only the decade that ushered in a global pandemic, but also one that generated some of the fastest developments in artificial intelligence. A seamless blending of the human agent with AI The future of higher education is here, and it is no longer going to be hybrid.

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UW Presidential Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Juneteenth celebrates a transformational event in American history, a period when our nation moved closer to the realization of the abstract notion of equality. That movement is worthy of celebration not only for the sake of the human lives it touched, but for the sake of the promise that such progress holds for the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! History chronicles moments where people pushed, pulled, shoved, harassed, bullied or beaten chose fighting over fleeing. The continuum ranges from stories of quiet personal rebellion to ones of explosive cultural and political movements changing the course of history.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. Just ask yourself: Without sufficient graduate-level training in sub-Saharan African history, how can a teacher effectively respond to student questions? I don’t think so.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Indicating a founding status evidences an appreciative and respectful nod to its religiously based history but signifies a more secular approach to teaching and student experience. Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you remember this exchange between Lisa and Homer Simpson from a 1991 episode of the animated sitcom. Based on his Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, this essay, entitled “Reparations for Black Americans can work. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The Whiggish interpretation of American history was easy enough: over time, the range of people included in public life grew. The fad for declaring the “end of history” in 1989 came from that story. (I’ve They’ll likely end long before history does.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? In other words, higher education is a life-or-death proposition for those of us who are from underrepresented communities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? That gentlemanly definition drew a stark contrast between a liberal education, grounded in the arts and humanities and especially the classics, and a more practical, applied, vocational, or pre-professional education.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2023

All they had to do was follow step-by-step instructions provided by the tool and boom, one of the most iconic games in history was recreated. Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, recently published a blog post describing his experience with GPT-4. I recreated the game of Pong in under 60 seconds. It was my first try.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean “Journalism is paywalled, but disinformation is free.” Yes, it can replace human effort with machine effort, thereby defeating the purpose of student writing. That means some history and civics, so they know some basics of what and why. is getting most of the attention.

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