HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

It is strange to remember a time before I communicated so habitually through email, the first time I used an academic search engine, or ventured into a virtual learning environment. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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HEPI

JANUARY 26, 2023

Review of Peter Hitchens’s new book ‘A Revolution Betrayed : How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System’ by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education, Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Lancaster University. Thus goes the central argument and complaint of this book.

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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 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. I’ve read his books and blogs for years. ” No argument from me on this one.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This edited volume comprises 19 book chapters divided into two sections: (a) primary and secondary settings; and (b) postsecondary settings. Dr. Erik M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

I am simply reducing the level of my professional engagements and being available for longer and more reflective walks, spending quality time with those I love, and co-editing a book of essays on leadership. Education is the engine of opportunity. The only thing larger than our dream should be our imagination. Dr. Benjamin E.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

We take AI tools for granted every day – from search engines to digital voice assistants to facial recognition on our phones. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canadian universities. Contributing to this ethos is an engineering, hands-on mind-set. Indeed, I’d say, predominates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He read every book he could on the species. He says evolutionary biology is a field with less racial diversity than other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. At OSU, he researches cooperation in vampire bats, asking important questions that reveal answers about not only bat behavior, but human behavior.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text. Generative AI is a field of artificial intelligence that has taken the world by storm. What’s the problem?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The latter also requires some combination of artistic creativity, practical skill and inventiveness, as observable in Leonardo’s command of anatomy, painting, drawing, mathematics, architecture, engineering, music and military science (to keep the list short). Editorial Tags: Books Is this diversity newsletter?:

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background. Very similar to software engineering.

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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. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

She introduced a book (also available online ) with a series of essays focusing on policy and debate over the last 20 years. “And as geopolitical tensions intensify, leveraging the funding and human capital of other nations is not as straightforward in the UK as it was a decade ago.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Marr, for one, is a civil and environmental engineer with a specific focus on air quality, airborne pathogens, atmospheric science, and public health. I was eleven years between books and, at my lowest creative point, seriously thought about not writing much anymore."

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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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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Epistemology is something which academics in social science and humanities think and write a lot about – usually whole chapters in an 80,000-word thesis, and a field of study in its own right. In my own work, in particularly teaching, I have been working in interdisciplinary ways with Engineers, Computer and Data Scientists and Physicists.

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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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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

For more details, including how to book a free place, see here. The East Midlands Institute of Technology, opening in September 2023, will also deliver against levelling up the critical engineering, manufacturing and digital skills needed by employers.

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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. Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership Dr. Michael Sorrell, longtime president of Paul Quinn College, has been a frequent guest on our podcast.

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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. Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership Dr. Michael Sorrell, longtime president of Paul Quinn College, has been a frequent guest on our podcast.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly.

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eLiterate

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For example, I tried to get DALL-E 2—ChatGPT’s image-generating sibling—to create a retro comic book cover depicting ChatGPT as a scary vampire. I tried half a dozen different prompts. Spelling a word that was explicitly spelled for it in the prompt? Not so much. Don’t get me wrong; the math problem will be solved.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As the great Rutgers professor of history, journalism and media studies David Greenberg has observed, these are books are best understood as works of commemoration rather than of history. French’s book is it. In an online posting entitled “ Why Are Popular History Books Popular ?” Thornton, Michael A.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And it's really about our humanity. And books teach life values and habits of people a lot unlike yourself. I can't get there, but books can help me understand. Disruptive Innovation and Higher Ed. I used to think it was all about our skills. I actually think it's about our relational power now.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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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. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Matin Ghavamizadeh transferred from Los Angeles Valley College to the University of California, Berkeley to double major in applied mathematics/electrical engineering and computer science. Consider the stories of two Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholars. This holds true for selective institutions.

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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. Input from the humanities is essential.

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College Marketing Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For the first time, a social media platform is competing with Google for the top-used search engine. TikTok now rivals Google as the most used internet search engine, despite not classifying itself as such a tool. She’s the founder of RONAREADS, a digital collective offering diverse and accessible book recommendations.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Note: I’ve added some formatting to make it more legible for humans. You’d want a human expert to tweak the rubric and review each assignment; it’s a bit more complex and error-prone than algorithmic math problem generators. He has a mind like an engineer, which can be good or bad. Steve is brilliant.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. Disputes over the book’s methodology and findings proved irrelevant. In part because of the Great Recession, birth rates fell sharply, as did the number of high school graduates.

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