The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., For me, ChatGPT is just another in a long line of technology-assisted tools that I accept may become a routine part of my professional/personal life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2024

Two major New York state universities are collaborating with a teacher-run organization seeking to teach communities and students about civil resistance in local history, creating an online platform to display the organization’s curricula and local resistance efforts. The Rochester region is consistently one of the U.S.’s

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. The rise of self-paced e-learning courses post-Covid is a testament to this shift, enabling students to learn according to their own schedules and at their own pace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. These new AI tools.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. The rise of self-paced e-learning courses post-Covid is a testament to this shift, enabling students to learn according to their own schedules and at their own pace.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al.,

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The partnership combines Liaison’s innovative technology with NAGAP’s graduate enrollment expertise to transform graduate education and enrich professional growth. Centralized application systems deliver efficiencies that admissions offices need and simplicity that students want.” WATERTOWN, Mass.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s modern, technology-driven world, faculty are often seeking ways to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

We are going to see chat-bot technology everywhere very quickly, including education. I would like to propose a framework for thinking about the inevitable deluge of LLM-enhanced education technology as a way to prevent being swept away by the fervor attached to these developments. Let the technology prove itself first.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Faculty members, Brown recalls, were worried that students would use ChatGPT to cheat and bypass any difficulties they encountered, negatively impacting learning. But this method led to its own problems, including students’ work being falsely flagged as AI-generated. Dr. Joseph F. Brown A perfect solution was not easy to find.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

What was particularly new about the Robbins Review was a costed proposal for more money which promised by reference to nascent Human Capital Theory to be self-financing through growth in productivity. In this and many other respects, the Robbins review caught the spirit of the time. Firm Economic Foundations?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Mellon Foundation that began in 2020 and utilizes digital technologies to improve understanding of Hispanic and Indigenous populations living near the U.S.-Mexico The funding launches a four-year initiative and faculty fellowship program, led by UAL, that will champion undergraduate student research in the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Not by admissions selectivity or even by their contribution to social mobility, but, rather, their impact on the growth of knowledge and technological and scientific advancement? Smith’s essay raises troubling questions about whether Google, despite its dominance of AI research, is treating this technology with the urgency it requires.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. At each point in history, Native Americans have been dynamic agents of change.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The money will be targeted at students with physical disabilities at a university known for its strong track record in providing disability services. “I ended up picking Temple University, but JEVS will continue on after a disabled student graduates from Temple” and help them find housing and employment, she said.

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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. The center director had to be reassigned to a new role on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. 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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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

History will record the 2020s as not only the decade that ushered in a global pandemic, but also one that generated some of the fastest developments in artificial intelligence. For our context in higher education, we must understand that students are now learning and completing their assignments differently than a year ago.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. ” “Do not include homework … as any part of grading.

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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.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As Chat GPT and other innovations that make use of artificial intelligence technologies are brought forward, faculty members and administrators throughout the academic community are appropriately raising concerns about their potential adverse effects on the higher education experience. Dr. William B.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Evolving learner demands and fast-changing demographic realities are pushing colleges and universities of all descriptions to find new ways to serve new students. But in this quest for “the new”, Rovy Branon—Vice Provost of Continuum College at the University of Washington—says leaders should reflect back on their history for guidance. “I

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

. “Education has long been a key pillar of the bilateral relationship and a source of warm friendships between our students and young professionals,” the Australian government said in a statement, adding that more than 200,000 Indonesian students have studied at Australian tertiary institutions.

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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. Meanwhile, the use of generative AI by students is widespread. ” Anonymous focus group completed with undergraduate students. What does generative AI mean in practice for a UK university?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues.

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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. Then I try my hand at replicating what I watched before teaching my students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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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. In our first post, the WCET Steering Committee work group focusing on this area reviewed historical enrollment trends, changes in student markets, and what may be coming in the future. These days I only teach online.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Why would an institution boast that “46% of this year’s incoming class are students of color” and shun its process to ensure that faculty can attest to their capacity to teach them? Otherwise, a person who states, “I treat all my students the same,” could be rejected for another who writes three pages of believable fluff.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. Students also performed live sketch comedy in an event called Security Night Live.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

History has shown us that curiosity killed the cat, skinned it and dissected it, says David Ansell Elon Musk believes that making artificial intelligence “maximally curious” means that it would be “pro-humanity” ( Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’, 13 July ).

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PeopleAdmin

AUGUST 4, 2023

Hiring and Onboarding features: The History Notes feature has been expanded to work with both hiring proposals and actions for HR users. Position Management feature: HR users now have the option to add notes for Hiring Proposals and can review the note history from the history section of the Hiring Proposal.

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