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Women's Educational Equity Takes On Technology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The conference, Closing the Gap: The Role of Girls’ Education in Creating a More Equitable World , focused on the unique burdens confronting young women of today, and the biases in technology and AI that are impacting the present and future. We assume that technology is in the driver’s seat, propelled by a will of its own.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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How will technology change education in the future?

HEPI

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. The final point to make on tech, however, is that we must not forget the humans. Education is, primarily, a human endeavour and we want validation by other humans.

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University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. A department really gets to own its future,” he said. “A

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The Intersection of Art and Technology: A Journey from the 1960s to Today

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Pioneers of the Computer-Art Movement Among the pioneers was Gordon Pask, known for his interactive artworks that explored the human-machine relationship. Another influential figure was Richard Hamilton, who envisioned a fusion of human and machine, leading to the concept of a “technological superhuman.”

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression. Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci, a Ph.D.

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AI in Education: Will We Need Humans Anymore?

Campus Technology

Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, about how AI is transforming education and the evolving role of humans in an AI-powered future. We spoke with Mark Schneider, director of the U.S.