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Alum Donates $100 Million to New NYU Building

Inside Higher Ed

The gift is among the largest in the history of NYU’s Washington Square campus. Scheduled to open in 2023, the facility will include new classrooms, a proscenium theater, rehearsal spaces, practice rooms, common areas, athletic facilities, a freshman dorm, dining areas and faculty housing. Hide by line?:

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Inside Higher Ed

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Facile speech doesn’t get you through Physical Electronics.

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Three Australian universities to set up in Indonesia

The PIE News

Western Sydney University has a long and proud history of opening up access to higher education for students who have the drive, ambition and dedication to succeed. Establishing a significant long-term presence in Indonesia is an exciting new chapter in that history,” said Jennifer Westacott, chancellor, Western Sydney University.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Akilah Carter-Francique, the dean of Education, Health and Human Services at Benedict College and former executive director of the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San Jose State University, says student-athletes have a huge voice in challenging the status quo. Filed in 2009 and decided in 2015, O’Bannon v.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Inside Higher Ed

” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” Facility with analytics, data mining, data visualization, informatics and probability isn’t a luxury. It’s necessary.