Remove Document Remove Engineering Remove Humanities Remove Liberal Arts
article thumbnail

Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s

article thumbnail

Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

article thumbnail

Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

article thumbnail

If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

At the same time, it’s worth acknowledging that the document contains some tensions and elisions that are typical of such endeavors. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. Rather, it is a thought piece and discussion starter.

article thumbnail

Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S. Darling and Deanna P.

Advise 74
article thumbnail

Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies. What stories can be told of prior students? Julianne : It has!