Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. This rate nearly doubles at highly selective institutions and has remained stable for 50 years. based tenure-track faculty members across eight disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Pathways for Careers in Manufacturing and Engineering, a joint effort from Cal State Fullerton’s Extension and International Programs and the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received $211,000 to spark community college students’, high schoolers’, and eventually, middle schoolers’ interest in the field of biomanufacturing.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. These automated programs are being used for various reasons, ranging from gaining access to popular classes to scamming institutions out of money. million in attempted student aid fraud.

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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. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed?

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

At the University of Richmond, we have responded to these demands by developing programming in data analytics, data science and computational research. We have also developed programs to recruit and retain students interested in science. UR is a research-intensive, predominately undergraduate, predominately white institution.

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Coursera blog

MAY 8, 2023

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the transformative force of our era, reshaping industries and redefining the boundaries of human potential. It is also raising new questions about the best way to build these powerful systems that serve humanity in safe and uplifting ways.

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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. New tools.

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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. These automated programs are being used for various reasons, ranging from gaining access to popular classes to scamming institutions out of money. million in attempted student aid fraud.

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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. Gardiner is used to visiting higher education institutions as a keynote speaker.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

The report titled, “International Graduate Applications and Enrollment: Fall 2022,” details the responses from 370 institutions, which represents 48.7% degree-granting institutions. Ortega, president of CGS, noted that this increase in international graduate students calls for institutional sensitivity to best serve these students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

These were some of the prompts included in a classification and model-building assignment in the fall 2022 Knowledge-Based AI course that David Joyner taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology. LeCun spoke with Inside Higher Ed about challenges in computer science in September.)

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Universities such as Anáhuac University Network (Red de Universidad Anáhuac) , Ball State University , Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) , London Business School , and S.P. Graduates will be prepared for data science careers in business or industry. The first cohorts are expected to begin in August 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” At William & Mary, an institution currently in its 330th year, we have a saying: “We change to preserve what we value most.” In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93. Rowe asked the audience, “What is changing in your discipline?”

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” Responses of Administrators In higher education, colleges and universities have been reluctant to ban the A.I.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

PEER and WISE Programs Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences The PEER and WISE programs support students academically and demonstrate best practices and high graduation rates for underrepresented populations at predominantly White institutions. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. 1 risk” to Notre Dame, the institution’s Board of Trustees told Grundy.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

An important aspect of our work in this area is to highlight what our member institutions are doing out in the real academic world. Computer science faculty ask students to create and run programming codes through a Generative AI platform to identify errors.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. ” Alexander wrote.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2022

But if trends hold, just a fraction of them will make the jump–especially to a selective institution. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring. Here are three important steps for selective institutions to consider: Partnerships with community colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Balancing staff and materials is the fine line every library treads, and you can see from the IPEDS data that for four-year institutions, there is more or less an equal investment in materials and wages. computer sciences, business administration, education). 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.4] modified from NISO 39.7-2013,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: It might seem an unenviable position to succeed a long-standing, widely admired college president who is credited with practically building the institution. ” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows. Is it the right role?

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to Indeed, 72% of employers consider bootcamp graduates to be just as likely to perform at a high level as computer science degree grads, while 12% say bootcamp grads are more prepared than degree-holders. Only 17% expressed doubts about their qualifications.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” He continued, “It’s also a violation of the principles of academic governance, and it has implications for the integrity of the institution.” ” Allegheny said in a written statement that its program and staffing plan “involves the elimination of faculty and staff positions around the institution.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Adding the Human Element. He was the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his tenure at Notre Dame, he was Chair of the Department of Computer Science and its Director of Graduate Studies at Georgetown University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. We define earnings boost as the amount more that they are making beyond the typical high school graduate within the state that their institution is located. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Even at higher ed institutions that value student input in making allocation decisions, student desires must be weighed against other priorities, such as cybersecurity. “Campus IT dollars are stretched more than ever before at our institution,” says Bill Balint, chief information officer at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Drumm McNaughton is joined by Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson, President of San José State University, who shares her insights on leveraging the power of public-private partnerships to elevate the institution’s role in education, innovation, and community engagement. Lean into the significance of being the anchor institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Last week, the Louisiana State Police Cyber Crime Unit tipped off five institutions—the University of New Orleans, River Parishes Community College, Nunez Community College, Southern University at Shreveport and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center—that their networks had possibly been compromised.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When Singapore entered its first lockdown in April 2020, SUTD – like institutions around the world – was forced to move its lessons online. But Kin-Leong firmly believes that institutions need to offer more than hybrid learning as we know it now. . “It Now, SUTD wants to work with institutions around the world to develop campusX.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. Students are completing college on time at higher rates nationally at two- and four-year institutions. percent over 2021. million in federal relief funding.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution.

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Helix Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With Gen AI, we enter an entirely new era where machines can interact with humans to understand and process natural language. It uses these “inputs” to generate inferences for “output” reports that can be applied institution-wide in service to enrollment growth. These models can be fine-tuned over time to improve accuracy.

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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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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. Or as I was asked recently by a university Vice-President of Research, “what are the implications of digital media for post-secondary institutions?”. What are the implications of this for institutional and program design?

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