University Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI Literacy When you look at the speed it took for some of the world’s most groundbreaking technologies to access 100 million users, it usually took years. As a result, democratizing its use is vital to human equity, said Paz. It took the telephone 75 years, the smartphone 16 years and WhatsApp three and a half years.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through its Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) and as part of its larger commitment to sustainability, equity, and climate action, the University of Arizona (UArizona) has supported dozens of projects over the past two years that promote environmentalism and help address disparities in sustainability efforts. Photo courtesy UArizona CSF.

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eLiterate

APRIL 23, 2023

” “ChatGPT will make thinking and humans obsolete.” “By replacing debt with equity capital from Apollo Funds, we are meaningfully reducing outstanding debt giving us optionality to invest in our portfolio of growing businesses.” . “ChatGPT will make writing obsolete.”

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In my last post , I explained how generative AI memory works and why it will always make mistakes without a fundamental change in its foundational technology. They started with prompt engineering. You can’t answer these questions confidently without the help of actual humans who would be using the product.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

At a societal level, the United States’ economy depends on a skilled workforce, particularly given the rapidly changing technological landscape. We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. Such courses need to focus on exposing anti-Blackness as the default setting of digital technologies and showcasing how algorithmic racism shows up in everyday life, both on- and offline.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2023

And, as with all technologies, there will be haves and have-nots. They write: In our study, since AI proved surprisingly capable, it was difficult to design a task in this experiment outside the AI’s frontier where humans with high human capital doing their job would consistently outperform AI.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. Inside Higher Ed caught up with 11 academics to ask how to harness the potential and avert the risks of this game-changing technology.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

But bigger issues—digital literacy, pedagogical practices, equity—are also at play. Much research has humans program machines to behave in a clever way, like playing chess, but, today, we emphasize machines that can learn, at least somewhat like human beings do.”. Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Can artificial intelligence technology help you research content ideas? Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting I had a follow up post to last week's "Freaking Out About ChatGPT" ready to go, and then I saw some things that Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi was saying on Twitter about the technology and its use and I immediately shelved my post so I could share this from Marc. - By Marc Watkins.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Unlike the gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that have catalyzed highly visible and widespread efforts to increase gender parity, the vast underrepresentation of women in economics has received relatively little attention. The field of economics has a problem with women.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Lehman, we have the platform and the resources to partner with schools and communities in the Bronx to be a social and economic engine — that is what helps us become intentionally an HSI and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI),” says Delgado. “We We are around 83% students of color. asks Delgado.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2023

Pushing science into the Now EPAM Systems , a product engineering company, helps its clients in education technology and beyond leverage cloud-based technology to expand its capabilities without sacrificing significant resources to infrastructure.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

The NSF achieves this through funding and grant programs like the Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity ( GRANTED ) and Enabling Partnership to Increase Innovation Capacity ( EPIIC ). Dr. Panch also discusses NSF’s mission and vision. He talks about its recent $44 million program that helps fund projects across the US.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. ” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity. Linus: New math is too much for me.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. Before entering education, she worked in private equity doing turnarounds, or bridge financing. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“Professor Lowery dissents from the political and academic views that are held by the majority of his peers and superiors at UT, often publicly, and sometimes uses pointed terminology to get his points across,” says his federal lawsuit , filed Wednesday.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you want to read that Paul LeBlanc book, read Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education , which (unsurprisingly) advocates for Competency-Based Education (CBE). Every system that organizes humans for a purpose is a system of care. Meanwhile, technology has vastly increased mobility for many workers.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

Worse, in this new era of economic, geopolitical, rapid technological advancement (e.g., Emulating a strategy used for new technology companies, the medical school has brought in mentors to help new doctors find their way. He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Here’s one solution. Why are they not involved?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This trend has major equity implications for these schools, given who enrolls in community colleges: Recent data shows that about 40 percent of community college students are Black or Latino, and nearly half are from lower-income backgrounds. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Giannini Professor of Finance at Stanford, asked panelists during the STEM talk whether “charlatans [are] trying to get into the sciences” by studying and otherwise working on diversity, equity and inclusion in these fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. The popularity of majors that lead directly to well-paying jobs, whether in business, engineering, health care or information technology, shows no signs of slackening.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. These figures represent a striking improvement since 2015, when the figures were 19 percent and 57 percent, respectively.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

With changes like major demographic student switches, huge swathes of the economy being reconfigured, and profoundly impactful technologies popping up seemingly out of nowhere, companies need time to plan and implement appropriately significant responses. But I also sense a lot of paralysis. The start-up picture is brutal. Nothing has worked.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I want my assignment to support diversity, equity, and inclusion Can we do all that? Apply the attached diversity, equity, and inclusion guidelines to the content you generate. Incorporate diverse litigants and equity-relevant issues in the cases you generate. He has a mind like an engineer, which can be good or bad.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Recent reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the Center for American Progress on sexual orientation and gender identity data call for change in clinical and research data collection. Even as many institutions in U.S. Here are a few questions we consider before asking anyone to tick a box on a form.

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 26, 2024

Moreover, Geoff discusses the impact of integrating advanced technology and data analytics into enrollment strategies. Instead, we’ll be hearing from someone with decades of experience in business, finance, and technology. But I did come into it through somewhat of a unique way, and it really was through the lens of private equity.

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