Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? Data can help do that.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

Many instructors may intend to assess students directly, but that is simply not scalable. If your class load is partially or fully online, most likely students are not doing the work as you had hoped. ChatGPT can act as a debate partner, presenting counterarguments to challenge students’ positions.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

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.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. First, pressures on young people from middle school forward to concentrate in engineering, computer science, or business for job security only increased. My pursuing the Ph.D.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

These programs are expected to begin their first cohorts in August 2023: Master of Business Administration from Illinois Tech – This program prepares students for management careers in the technology space. The curriculum will include industry partner content to provide students with real-world experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

W&M’s exploration of an expanded presence is the direct result of faculty interest, established and growing student demand, and the needs of the Commonwealth – all of which are longstanding. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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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

We routinely describe our teaching as ‘research-led’ and train our students to become independent researchers. And since, if we are honest, we are all learning how to do this, how does one foster a culture whereby researchers – students and lecturers – work together to tackle global challenges? The question is: what happens next?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. That may be what we are seeing in the NSF survey in the decline of doctorate recipients, and that students just need more time.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. 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. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university.

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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. Students also performed live sketch comedy in an event called Security Night Live.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. First, however, let’s ask why those inequities realities persist.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The standardized tests used to assess student learning don’t count toward students’ grades and may therefore provide inaccurate and misleading measures of student knowledge and skills. Schools in high poverty neighborhoods also have especially high numbers of English language learners and greater student churn.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. Women faculty members and faculty members of color spend more time than white male faculty members advising students and serving on committees, activities that take away from time on research and are typically given less weight in salary, tenure and promotion decisions.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. The impetus of all of it was creating a space where students could feel like they belong,” says Cassens. Especially students they may not otherwise have an opportunity to meet. And to us, that’s the beauty.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Drumm McNaughton President Teniente-Matson shares insights on utilizing public-private partnerships to develop meaningful student, community, and brand experiences. These partnerships also facilitate research opportunities, enabling students and faculty to contribute to technological advancements. ” Dr. .

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Total international student numbers in the US show a healthy near-return to pre-pandemic levels, as new enrolments “soared” by 80% year-on-year, new Open Doors data suggests. As history has shown us, international educational exchange bounces back. Health, safety and welfare of all students on US campuses is a top priority.

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University Business

MARCH 10, 2023

With every technological innovation comes the need to educate the next generation of students to ensure they can apply those skills to their future careers. In the 70s, it was the computer as it became more available to students and schools. This might be the single most important challenge in the history of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image: LeBron James and Hillary Clinton are important figures to incoming first-year college students, according to the latest mindset list released by Marist College. Political science: For incoming students, Hillary Clinton has always had a more significant role in American politics than Bill Clinton.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I can’t help but look at this century’s coming-of-age movies and ask what they reveal about the 80 percent of students who are of traditional college age. Then, Graff astutely observes, there’s a cultural dimension to today’s student angst that stands in vivid contrast to the greater optimism of his and my generation.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Kothari was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rochester during my brief stint as an English graduate student there. First, he was interested in designing software to teach students accounting. First, he was interested in designing software to teach students accounting. Beyond that, two things stuck with me about S.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We start with our children, explaining that there are clusters of ideas called history, science, literature, religion, and so on, and those ideas explore different questions about the world. A very creative school might also find a way to weave science into this strategy, but mostly, we separate science from this kind of thinking.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 2: An education that is skills and outcomes focused—that does much more to ensure that students become better communicators and can apply critical thinking, close reading and numerical skills in real-world contexts. None of these ideas is original. So what can be done? Here are some possible solutions.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Sure, the number of philosophy majors has remained fairly steady, but linguistics flourishes, even as the number of English and history majors has fallen by half and as computer science now enrolls as many undergraduates as all the humanities majors combined. Interest in language is also growing outside the academy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

It is exceedingly difficult, for example, to learn much about disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, the experience of transfer students or employment outcomes, let alone the quality of the education that the institution offers. Issue 3: Student learning and employment outcomes.

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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. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help. Advances in technology are inevitable.

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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. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help. Advances in technology are inevitable.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Our students have changed, but our institutions have not adapted sufficiently to this reality. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates. We need to serve these students better. Too many students feel disconnected, unsupported, and directionless. Let’s look at three.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. Is it possible to sharply increase stipends, salaries, and benefits for graduate students, post-docs, and research assistants while maintaining their numbers? Doubtful if we hope to have students graduate in a timely manner. Priorities conflict.

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