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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education. Dr. Ruth J.

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In 2024, Higher Ed Must Find Its Footing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Everywhere you look there are signs that the higher education sector is precariously rocking, such that even a strong jab might take it down. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab Everyone from editorial boards to trustees to state higher education officers to congressional leaders and pundits has an opinion about what to do. Definitely. Absolutely.

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There’s a Hidden Equity Issue in Education. Here’s How Colleges Can Address It.

University Business

By now, remote learning and nonverbal communication with educators and peers have become routine for students of all backgrounds. Students enter the higher education environment with unequal communication abilities yet are graded on how effectively they can communicate in writing. . But that doesn’t mean it’s always easy or fair.

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GPT-4 is here. But most faculty lack AI policies.

Inside Higher Ed

” 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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Welcome to the Wild, Wild West of AI and the Higher Education Institution

WCET Frontiers

A general perusal of Inside Higher Education , Chronicle of Higher Education , or the internet in general turns up countless fears that generative AI, especially in the form of large language models such as ChatGPT, will increase attacks on academic integrity. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

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The Evolution of Instruction 

Faculty Focus

One cannot emphasize enough the profound effects of the fusion between artificial intelligence and education. The vast landscape of education, which once might have seemed static and resistant to change, is now fluid, molded continuously by the nuances of AI. AI steps in as a powerful ally, amplifying the educator’s capabilities.

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NCAA Inclusion Forum Focuses on DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“There should be concern because there are people in this room who have built their life’s work, their life’s philosophies on exactly what is being dismantled and what is trying to be erased,” said Felicia Martin, Senior Vice President of Inclusion, Education and Community Engagement at the NCAA.