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. ” James C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For four years, she served as program coordinator for University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Diversity Initiative in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). One is the anti-DEI push being made on the field, including book bans at the K-12 level and the targeting of student resources in higher education. students in STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate. Pipeline and diversity programs in the database are assessed through what Byrd and Mason call the THRIVE Index : Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice and Expectation.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

These suggestions are a mix of personal and professional development podcasts, books, articles, and shows. – Lindsey and the WCET team ————- Books On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed I picked this one up last year to learn more about Juneteenth. Enjoy engaging fellow staff members with this book.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Higher education institutions are the engines of change in our society, premier hubs for knowledge production," said Graves. Journalists Toluse Olornnipa and Robert Samuels will discuss their new book, His Name is George Floyd , connecting the past with the present.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.

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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. ” Discover lessons about AI for education through science fiction books and films.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues. We read, Weinstein wrote , because “important books shine a unique beam on human behavior, thought and feeling.” ” Weinstein once asked an expert on Shakespeare how much she knew about the bard.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? 2023; Perkins et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” The 2016 presidential campaign touched off an explosion of books and articles on disinformation, as well as widespread calls to combat misinformation and the supposedly growing contempt for verified facts in today’s posttruth moment. Books can be cooked. On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? 2023; Perkins et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. Called Women in Math, Science and Engineering (WIMSE) and housed at Cawthon Hall, the LLC promotes women’s success in STEM.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8 No surprise: computers, math, healthcare practice, architecture, engineering, and business. ” Wait a second. My undergraduates already know that.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” As Galileo noted, the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He shared how his years in software engineering taught him about finding the critical balance between the silos of specialization and the generosity required for collaboration. Click here for full audio. Click the banner below to watch the video.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. But Oreskes refused the offer.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He shared how his years in software engineering taught him about finding the critical balance between the silos of specialization and the generosity required for collaboration. Click here for full audio. Click the banner below to watch the video.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Presidents picking up at new schools John Nicklow While the jazz-playing Dr. Cole takes his talent to New Orleans, civil engineer Dr. John Nicklow is on his way out of The Big Easy to The Sunshine State. in civil engineering from Arizona State University. Located in Melbourne, Fla., He received his Ph.D.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

The history of OfS deserves to be written as a case study in regulatory failure, and one chapter will surely start with former Director of Fair Access Les Ebdon’s accurate prediction that “I can tell you exactly what the OfS will do. The OfS may be an example, but it is probably untypical because it was so likely to fail.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University. How does learning take place in ways we haven’t experienced before? Remind Students to Think.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Disputes over the book’s methodology and findings proved irrelevant. The book convinced many policy makers and opinion shapers that academic rigor was in free fall and that a substantial share of students showed no improvements in critical thinking, analytical reasoning or written communication during their college years.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Many campuses, including my own, have become mired in controversy over the fate of the institution’s libraries, as microforms and even books and journals are moved to remote storage, and replaced with cafés, study lounges, high-tech classrooms, and, at UT Austin, a welcome center. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even US news outlet NPR reported : It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been taken up by a white male. For further details, including an agenda and details on how to book a place, see [link].

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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. In this lesson, have your students take the Positivity Test in Barbara Fredrikson’s book Positivity. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class.

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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. In this lesson, have your students take the Positivity Test in Barbara Fredrikson’s book Positivity. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Maybe people who read books and enjoy doing their own thinking?) Some of the scientists and engineers who have led the AI revolution are aware of its dangers. The second is the drive of scientists, engineers, and technicians to invent and improve. The dilemma is similar to that in the history of inventing weapons.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

Mark Portelli, Release Engineering Manager at Cengage “I was an Electrical Engineering major and studied mostly Science and Math. ” Rebecca Ritchie, Career Sales Leader at Cengage They shape who we become “The most memorable class I took in college was on the History of New England. I’ve never forgotten him.”

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

design a cardboard mini golf game that demonstrates three different engineering practices; transform a children’s book into an augmented reality learning experience; build a board game that teaches younger students about civic engagement; design an invention to address one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ).

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. The authors confine the scope of their NEI to “eventually, broader areas of engineering and design.” To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed ® , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. Just read the book. David has written two books. It’s a better return on time.

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HESA

MARCH 23, 2023

Her description of how students get placed in a social status system running from “losers” to “study gods” is itself worth the price of the book. AU: The book that you’ve written is based on work you did observing students at two elite secondary schools, both I think in Beijing, which you’ve pseudonymized as Pinnacle and Capital.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They’ve been spending less time, if you will, in, I think you teach engineering wrong, X course should come first versus Y course. It’s a dichotomy, think learning can only happen inside a classroom or inside an institutional setting. And that’s honestly where these students have been spending time. It’s not that.

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