Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”).

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

That disappointed Iddo Drori, a computer science lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose 500 students in one of his classes a couple of years ago had more questions than he had time to answer. And it could tutor students by explaining the steps in difficult problems.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today, of course, those professions include communication, journalism, hotel and restaurant management, library science, nursing, psychology, social work, and much more. A second tradition, originally associated with Oxford and Cambridge, emphasized the transmission of culture and character development in a residential college setting.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

“But ChatGPT’s answer was so precise that I’m pretty sure it was learning from my own best students,” whom he suspected had posted their work online. Some seek to craft assignments that guide students in surpassing what AI can do. He still encourages his students to use the chat bot.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

of the colleges and universities that received the CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey. Ortega, president of CGS, noted that this increase in international graduate students calls for institutional sensitivity to best serve these students. Another key point in the report is the shift in countries applying.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

International graduate student enrollment continues to rebound since the pandemic froze students in place, and new countries and regions favoriting a U.S. Enrollment has exploded by 100%, thanks to a significant influx of international students who have entered the U.S. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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Liaison International

JUNE 30, 2023

More than 40% of students in online programs previously “stopped out” Students who had previously attended college but stopped before graduating account for 42% of those currently enrolled in an online degree-level or certificate program; first-generation students make up 33% of the population.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. Our students have changed, but our institutions have not adapted sufficiently to this reality. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. It’s equal parts exciting and exhausting. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The outcome is bad for students and industries alike: a lack of social mobility and a lack of qualified workers. million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. Cal State Fullerton’s share of the money will fund six projects designed to prepare students to work in in-demand areas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Many, if not most, of our students will be working in a field impacted by data and its quantitative, computational analysis. Future data-related jobs will lie at the intersection of data-rich domains, including economics, science, geography and psychology, working in concert with statistics, computation and business.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Besides, the humanities cloak an intensely practical side beyond the analytical and communication skills they grow: Shakespeare teaches us statecraft, after all. For many liberal arts colleges as well as humanities-focused departments in larger universities, it’s a pressing one. Perhaps that’s part of why the number of U.S.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. It’s equal parts exciting and exhausting. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

ChatGPT could be a useful tool to prepare students for the real world where critical thinking is more important than rote memorization. With the rise of the new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures. However, other colleges point to the difficulty of controlling cheating by students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence. Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. We can teach students that there is a time, place and a way to use GPT3 and other AI writing tools. When should students rely on AI assistance?

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. Our answer has been to revise an existing Challenge Labs offer to students and academic staff.

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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. ” No argument from me on this one. Nothing about public disinvestment?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The assistance that ChatGPT generated for my TCs was the time-saving jumpstart most needed to invest more energy into elements of their capstone project that actually needed their creative human touch. But, again, for my students, this was not a writing assignment.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

I hope the students who study with me don’t just stop at learning about the violence, but what we can do to support each other. As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. They expose students to different fields.” It makes us see the humanity in each other.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

After encountering multiple viral videos of Black people being killed by police, I started to wonder how such graphic content was impacting students, particularly young Black women and girls. Based on your research, what recommendations do you have for better-supporting students as they navigate online college environments and experiences?

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Launching 8 new degrees, 3 Professional Certificates, and a growing catalog of generative AI content: We’re excited to expand our portfolio of job-relevant online degrees with eight new programs in high-demand areas such as computer science, data science, and business administration.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The list would certainly include test-optional admissions, tuition resets, increasing discount rates, student loan abatement and proposed loan forgiveness, the decade-long enrollment decline, the hype surrounding AI and ChatGPT, and the controversies surrounding college rankings, not to mention the upcoming U.S. percent over 2021.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

While students have now returned to in-person learning at his university, Kin-Leong has accepted that the future of learning has changed. It is very hard to teach both cyber and physical students meeting the same learning outcomes at the same time,” he says. . intimacy” of the classroom. pic.twitter.com/zP5rbyKRDw.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

62% of students surveyed worry little (or not at all) about their college being targeted by cybersecurity breaches or cyberattacks, even though they could jeopardize their personal data. 19 to 27 by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. Cyberbreaches shut down campuses.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. Understanding that one’s success is related to one’s own free will more readily allow students to embrace trials, persist when faced with obstacles, and exert effort when challenged (Dweck, 2008).

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We moved many graduate programs online to meet the needs of our students who are largely juggling families and jobs. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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