HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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.” So, too, is the all too common tendency to move beyond agreed upon facts in making policy recommendations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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. Dr. Vaughn A.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2023

My History with Online Courses Welcome to the third and final post in our series on higher education enrollment shifts. Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Digital learning, which I define as any learning environment that uses digital technologies, is everywhere. Providing access to students who benefit from assistive technologies.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Bradford DeLong. Living through our current human-caused climate emergency while continuing to muddle our way through a global pandemic, it is sometimes difficult to believe in progress. Published in September 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. Robin demonstrated how Kortext, in partnership with Microsoft, has leveraged Azure GPT4 Turbo technology to create Kortext Premium – a secure AI solution for higher education. James Gray.

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WCET Frontiers

MAY 9, 2024

This comes at a time when the world is becoming increasingly complex, and journalists need to contextualize fast-paced news and help a divided audience understand the bigger picture, from the roots of conflicts to the future of humanity. At the end of the day, we are still all about the story, the history, and the reporting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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University Business

JULY 21, 2023

Interfolio is a higher education technology company focused on faculty affairs. Additionally, expanding the lens of an academics’ work to impact can help drive policy change, Rosen says. This is the message of two prominent voices at Interfolio’s 2023 Summit held this week in Washington, D.C.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

population representing a 13% growth from the year 2000, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He takes the time to meet with his Latinx learners, to sit with them, discuss the challenges they face, and share his own history with them. totaled 62.5

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The founders of the Minority-Serving Institutions Data Project say policy makers, researchers and advocacy groups all define MSIs in different ways, which leads to inconsistent and inaccurate studies of these institutions. Image: A new research initiative seeks to expand access to clear, precise data about minority-serving institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In these early days of the GPT spread, we are largely defenseless against this novel threat to human intelligence and academic integrity. Place a stronger focus on the classroom and human interactions. Rather, we are at a pivotal moment in the history of education. percent probability.” Disable left side advertisement?:

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It really will make my courses – one on the history of childhood, the other on museums, past, present, and future -- better. We know all too well that highly touted technologies, like Blockchain, frequently fail to live up to the hype. ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Even humanities departments would do well foster computational thinking and statistical understanding by exposing students to data mining, data visualization, geospatial analysis, and network analysis. As Ryan Craig has pointed out, every sector of the economy has embraced software and technology tools that give job applicants a leg up.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

The short book does cover that history briefly, but goes deeper into racism and struggles to overcome it in her life in Texas. It also gives a deep history of how racism was built into that state’s structures from the first settlers who came to Texas from what became the Confederacy to a state constitution that favored some over others.

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totallyrewired

JANUARY 27, 2024

My own institutions first respond was to add an extra sentance to the academic misconduct policy explicitly stating that AI tools like ChatGPT should not be used and any student caught using it would be breaking this policy guidance. Definitely need to check their data sharing policy before sign up.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history. The Transfer Playbook points to presidential leadership as a key factor in ensuring transfer student success. This holds true for selective institutions.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The history of CAA in UAE The history of CAA in UAE The Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) was established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2006 with the aim of ensuring the quality of higher education and improving the academic standards of higher education institutions in the country.

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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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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

MARCH 8, 2023

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.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Over the years, the HEC has played a key role in developing and promoting the higher education system in the country, by implementing policies and initiatives to improve the quality of education, encouraging collaboration between higher education institutions and industry, and providing funding opportunities for students and institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Additionally, higher education boards are having to help the institution navigate the tremendous waves of change , whether that’s technology, global issues, the pandemic, the enrollment cliff, or financial instability. According to NC Policy Watch, conservatives on the board thwarted his reappointment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Experts discussed issues, opportunities, and advice for Black Americans during this year’s Brookings Institution annual Black History Month program. We have to make sure that we are bringing community voices to the table, to these policy discussions. 13 and was led by the think tank’s Governance Studies program. Gilbert, a David M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

In an effort to cultivate more inclusive campuses for LGBTQ students, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has collaborated with colleges and universities nationwide to develop its Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program and its PrEP Ambassador Program.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. Just because a student isn’t required to take a course in the history department doesn’t mean that they don’t learn history. · Some of the nation’s best colleges get failing grades for not requiring coursework in specific departments.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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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 cynical jokes are much too easy here.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Unlike my students, they have no access to mental health professionals, outside systems of justice or technology. The questions raised by violence are often addressed by courses in fields such as gender studies, but I am arguing they are also the province of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences more broadly.

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