Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She held a Ph.D.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 8, 2024

From 2024 – 2026, 5,000 recipients will receive a one-year subscription to Coursera Plus, which also includes more than 6,900 courses, as well as entry-level Professional Certificates and hands-on projects that teach job-relevant business, technology, and data science skills. Women and women of color are encouraged to apply.*

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Jolanta Edwards , Director of Strategy at London Higher , and Susanna Kalitowski , Head of Policy at University Alliance. However, the NHS is under pressure like never before in its history. It is one of the institutions we treasure most as a nation. There are no easy or cheap fixes.

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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? Not by admissions selectivity or even by their contribution to social mobility, but, rather, their impact on the growth of knowledge and technological and scientific advancement? Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This blog was co-authored by Martin Betts, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Co-founder of HEDx, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University and Chair of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) , and Ceri Nursaw, CEO of NCEE. Get our updates via email.

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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. A time in which the new Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, could call on the country to prepare for a future that would be formed through the white heat of a technological revolution (Byrne, 2016).

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Technology is swiftly transforming the way individuals and organisations function, giving rise to domains, jobs, and skills that didn’t exist a few years ago. Amidst these changes, the pursuit of advanced education in the field of Information Technology has become increasingly essential and rewarding.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting The leap in capability between ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) We are going to see chat-bot technology everywhere very quickly, including education. Beware the Education-Technology Hype Cycle Remember MOOCs? Were any lessons learned from just the latest example of technology hype not living up to reality?

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HEPI

APRIL 13, 2023

This HEPI Blog was kindly written by William Wells, Deputy Director Research & Enterprise Division at the University of Leicester ‘Why are you trying to build a Space Park in Leicester? Leicester is many things: diverse; rich in heritage, history and culture; and resilient. You don’t really have a space industry there.’

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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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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

At this point in our AI history, it behooves us as faculty to get creative with assessment, to either switch up text-based assignments or to find new non-textual ways of assessment. Written by Corinne Hoisington , full-time Professor of Information Systems Technology at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The history of ‘institutional autonomy’ The insistence on the importance of institutional autonomy has a long history. The second part will be published tomorrow.

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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. Worries that the future will be worse than the present are an excellent reason to read economic histories such as Bradford DeLong’s new book, Slouching Towards Utopia. Published in September 2022.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 24, 2024

Source: ENSR Example : Here, ENSR uses a PPC ad to display how their middle school program provides students with cutting-edge technological skills. They recognize the importance of providing their children with strong technological skills and familiarizing them with the demands of the modern market. Put your tech programs on display.

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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. I don’t care that it’s not AGI, GPT-4 is an incredible and transformative technology. In another demonstration, one user had it recreate the iconic game Pong in under 60 seconds.

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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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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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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. Robin demonstrated how Kortext, in partnership with Microsoft, has leveraged Azure GPT4 Turbo technology to create Kortext Premium – a secure AI solution for higher education. Education technology and AI: what’s next?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

But the first “negative press” the suit notes Edelman received was in early 2014, over his Blinkx blog post. “In a move that elevated his profile in the stock market and prompted a dispute about his financial disclosures, he published a blog on Jan. The Seattle Times published a profile on him in March of that year.

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HEPI

MARCH 9, 2023

Here, Professor Karen Holford CBE FREng, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Cranfield University, writes as the first in a series of blogs from Midlands Innovation on the key considerations for policymakers and the higher education sector on increasing investment into regional R&D through universities.

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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. appeared first on The Cengage Blog. We are witnessing the dawn of haibrid (h-AI-brid) education.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

An article on 6 March 2023 by Alexander B Belles and colleagues from Penn State in the Journal of Science Policy and Governance made recommendations about how to handle the US Office of Science and Technology Policy requiring that all federally funded scholarly research be accessible to the public immediately upon publication.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin Published in May 2022 The core questions at the heart of much of the social sciences are about inequality. Why are some people poor and others rich? Why are some countries low income and others high income?

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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.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Given that background, why should we trust science?

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Liaison International

MARCH 20, 2024

Lea Cadieux | Vice President, Marketing Lea’s experience before joining Liaison includes leading marketing and communication teams on two university campuses and holding leadership roles in several marketing agencies, and technology companies. He really did a great job of exposing me to technology at a really young age of 15 years old.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean OK, so the title is a bit dry. In practice, most colleges tend to stick to a master’s degree requirement in fields in which they’re relatively plentiful and clearly relevant, like English, history or math. But the subject matters.

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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.” It is also a field claimed by multiple disciplines, including anthropology, history, linguistics, literature and psychology.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The Gartner hype cycle for AI-fueled text and image generation is currently at its peak of inflated expectations. I’m no Dr. Pangloss, and I certainly don’t want to come across as a hopeless optimist, let alone as an uncritical promoter of the new technology. As Claudia Golden and Lawrence F.

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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. Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Linus: New math is too much for me.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

“It’s spring break,” Mity Myhr, professor of history and associate dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at St. Ryan Watkins, professor of educational technology leadership at George Washington University, for example, offers advice on updating course syllabi. “It’s in our DNA.”

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HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. There are many FE colleges on the OfS register, with many more delivering HE through franchise arrangements and Institutes of Technology. How to do it? appeared first on HEPI.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 6, 2023

The Importance of AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools editor Mon, 03/06/2023 - 06:52 Accreditation Management Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Mary Clotilda SuvinOff Overview of AACSB Welcome to our blog on AACSB Accreditation for International Business Schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I, like you, have no doubt asked ChatGPT, the open AI-powered text generator, to respond to some questions and been dazzled by the results. It really will make my courses – one on the history of childhood, the other on museums, past, present, and future -- better. I found the results thought-provoking.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The partisan divide in views on higher education, we hear , is deepening. Campuses “ are driving political division.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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