Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

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? Smith’s essay raises troubling questions about whether Google, despite its dominance of AI research, is treating this technology with the urgency it requires.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. At each point in history, Native Americans have been dynamic agents of change.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

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. These changes and similar trends in other nations have led some to suggest that Human Capital Theory is dead or dying (Lauder et al, 2022).

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. Inside Higher Ed caught up with 11 academics to ask how to harness the potential and avert the risks of this game-changing technology.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The application suggested topics as well as books and articles that I hadn’t thought of. 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. These might be organized around a future career (e.g.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

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. Which degrees earn the most?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

” As her own books demonstrate, political attacks on higher education date back much further. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. It can be found, of course, in explicit attacks on tenure and on faculty members’ free speech. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. 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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Helix Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Focus on donors who have multi-year history with more expensive appeals. These are donors who have given two or three of the last 5 years, but have not yet booked a gift this year. This is an example of smart fundraising, targeting a group and applying a strategic resource with data-driven technology to maximize response.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. 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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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting.

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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. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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

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. The Transfer Playbook points to presidential leadership as a key factor in ensuring transfer student success. This holds true for selective institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Beyond the four walls of urban campuses, all university systems will face a fifth wall posed by the rapid expansion of those digital technologies now labeled the metaverse. But even with these technologies, it’s important to intentionally create a virtual space where diverse ideas come together.

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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. Faculty discomfort with technology-enhanced pedagogies. We know why; it’s because of: Inertia.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies. But most books of poetry by leading poets, with scant exceptions, sell fewer than 100 copies. My dormmate’s book only sold 11 copies before the prize announcement. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education. And of course the reverse is also true.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The reliance on traditional museum artifacts—letters, books, paintings and photographs—tended “to force historical material into certain conventional modes” of display that rendered visitors passive and unreflective.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Their “Red Book,” Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors , has become the foundation of best practices and principles connected to academic freedom and tenure. Just because a student isn’t required to take a course in the history department doesn’t mean that they don’t learn history. ·

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Managing a house of books is not a small deal. The team is expected to maintain a proper inventory check annually to manually track the books in circulation. . Handling a complete house of books can get tedious. There is always a struggle to keep up with the volume of borrowers' requests for books and research information.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Somewhat similarly, a recent PBS documentary, Ruthless: The Secret History of Monopoly , shows how a game that originally “ meant to critique capitalism came to embody it.” McCall asks history instructors to embrace video games because they provide an opportunity to discuss and debate the game version of history.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. A recent book by the poet Deborah Warren, entitled Strange to Say , certainly responds to the growing popular interest in etymology. Interest in language is also growing outside the academy.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But with all the technology, with all the needs for innovation and the headwinds, I mean, we’ve got the demographic cliff or enrollment cliff coming up, which is real and I’m sure that’s going to affect your institution because being a public institution, regional, we’ve got to be able to innovate to get past this.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

In 1966, Caroline Bird, a nonfiction writer whose many books include pioneering works of feminism, like Everything a Women Needs to Know to Get Paid What She’s Worth and Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down , published The Invisible Scar , a study of the Great Depression’s psychological and social impact.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

With changes like major demographic student switches, huge swathes of the economy being reconfigured, and profoundly impactful technologies popping up seemingly out of nowhere, companies need time to plan and implement appropriately significant responses. But I also sense a lot of paralysis. Can Pearson Solve the Rubric’s Cube?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Pre-exposure is good for increasing the credibility of information and preparing students for new ways of learning, such as immersive technology. reading a relevant book or article. We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. References.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers. To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Pre-exposure is good for increasing the credibility of information and preparing students for new ways of learning, such as immersive technology. reading a relevant book or article. We can pre-expose students to new information before starting a course or a class with: a welcome letter or email of the course description. References.

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