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Humane Ingenuity 41: Zen and the Art of Winemaking

Dan Cohen

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. A good place to start is with the strange history of the banana , as illustrated by Ashley Buchanan in one of her Juncture-powered PHL pieces. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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PeopleAdmin July Product Releases

PeopleAdmin

Here’s what to expect: Faculty Information System updates: CV Templates and Downloads: Academic leaders building CV templates can leverage the ‘drag & drop’ feature to easily reorder activity types such as research publications or service work. All videos are now accessible to customers in the My Portfolio > How To panel.

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Customer Success Story: Prairie State College

PeopleAdmin

She began as an adjunct professor and three years ago, transitioned to working as the Recruiting and Training Specialist in the Human Resources Department. Previously, all that information was tied to specific people, so I’d have to know who had held a position to get the history.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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3 Ways Social Listening Aligns Athletics and Central Marcom

Campus Sonar

Their stories of success and persistence can help humanize a higher ed brand. After the tournament ended, UMBC grew its student population by 18%, or just under 2,000 additional students, marking the most significant admissions shift in the school’s history.