University Business

MARCH 26, 2024

While job titles such as “computer engineer” and “software developer” accounted for some of the highest-paying jobs, students who earned an undergraduate degree in a multitude of engineering pathways dominated both lists. NACE found that undergraduate engineering majors made an average of $76,740, up 3.1%

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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). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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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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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans.

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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 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

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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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

Ortega, president of CGS, noted that this increase in international graduate students calls for institutional sensitivity to best serve these students. Support requires real understanding of the cultural context that helps shape the experience of students,” said Ortega. “In

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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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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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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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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. But to avoid a reactionary discussion, it’s important to set the stage.

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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. New tools.

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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

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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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. But to avoid a reactionary discussion, it’s important to set the stage.

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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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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. The use of ChatGPT by students to deal with course assignments raises ethical questions, many of which were addressed in a blog I wrote last week. In later drafts, students must explain each revision.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development.

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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 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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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

CTU’s mission statement includes using technology to educate students. It does, of course, create the risk that students can submit work that is not “original.” To manage this risk, faculty began to view student work differently. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET. This question was of particular interest to CTU leadership.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. Priorities conflict. Apparently not.

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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 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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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development.

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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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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

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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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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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. As many faculty do in their tenure, I redeveloped a course.

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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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Today's Learner

APRIL 21, 2023

Allowing students to submit homework in simpler file formats can reduce your class’s energy output. Plus, Computer Science students or students with low-powered computers will appreciate being able to use plain text formats. By caring for our planet, you are fulfilling your role as a human.

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