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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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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 The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known.

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(Podcast) #22-How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education? Part I- With Hanna Lee

ACPA

Hanna Lee 03:47 So we have seen various reactions on ChatGPT and AI Power Search Engines. For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So again, 2021 may sound new, but not too new, compared to the recent discussion regarding the AI-powered search engine or ChatGPT.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

This denial of economic opportunity causes a well-intentioned policy to fail to live up to its economic and humanitarian aspirations. Instead, let’s look at this purely from a policy perspective. He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Mr. Clark wants to go back to school to become an engineer.

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Pomp and Circumstance

Susquehanna President's Blog

Here is a list of colors aligned with academic disciplines from Wikipedia [1] Faculty Color Sample Agriculture Maize Arts ( liberal arts ), letters ( literature ), humanities White Commerce , accountancy , business Drab Dentistry Lilac Economics Copper Education Light blue Engineering Orange Fine arts , architecture Brown Forestry , environmental studies (..)

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.