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Higher Ed Leaders and Scholars Discuss Promises and Pitfalls of AI Tool Usage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy. history survey) without discussion labs or supplemental instruction sessions, that have outsize DFW rates. Inequities pervade American higher education.

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Universities are not what they used to be. And thank goodness for that

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The balancing influence of HEFCE’s cooperating bodies has been broken up and institutions are registering to the new, sole regulator of English Higher Education, the Office for Students. They have always been engines of innovation and economic development, addressing societal challenges and improving lives. The date is 2018.

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Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

If we look rearward, we see that a series of utterly unpredictable developments in the last decade and a half left an indelible imprint on higher education today. The great American demographic shift was a second major development with vast repercussions for higher education.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

Lab space is inadequate to meet the growing for programs in biological sciences, neuroscience, or engineering, but can’t easily be expanded because of cost constraints and safety regulations. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Wherever a physical campus is located, it needs to be walkable.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . The College of Urban Education at Davenport University launched a BS in Urban STEM Education program. Minority Male Initiative — Broward College.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. That has remained the case with UCU’s ‘Post-1992 National Contract’.