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. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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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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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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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

A new generation of Indonesians will have the chance to study at an Australian university at home, as three more Australian institutions plan to launch campuses in Indonesia. Over time, campus numbers are expected to reach 2,500 students, the university has said. An honour to farewell Indonesian President ⁦ @jokowi ⁩ this morning.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. But there are limits to technological finesse. ” Other titles consider information technology’s impact on norms.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

10 online panel – hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) – invited a number of scholars in higher ed to weigh in on the potential and challenges that AI tools may bring to the field. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. These new AI tools. are within that wider context."

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The UK’s University of Birmingham has hosted a series of events aimed at leveraging cultural assets to foster soft diplomacy across the US. And that can be through links [with] training, investment economics, research opportunities, going to university [and] travelling in the UK as tourists.”

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

and Vanderbilt University By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Generative AI will unleash the next wave of innovation and productivity. As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. Selection includes: Generative AI for Everyone from DeepLearning.AI

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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. Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. Modern AR is a technology that superimposes digital information onto the physical world.

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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.

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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. Through this partnership, NAGAP and Liaison intend to bring a proven technology platform to additional colleges and universities across the country,” Ramsdell said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs? 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? Cal Tech, MIT, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

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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. The Times Were A-Changin! In this and many other respects, the Robbins review caught the spirit of the time.

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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. Augmented reality (AR) is a powerful tool offering a variety of benefits to university teaching. Modern AR is a technology that superimposes digital information onto the physical world.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This concept is exemplified by the University of Arizona Libraries’ (UAL) work through the Digital Borderlands Project, a grant project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that began in 2020 and utilizes digital technologies to improve understanding of Hispanic and Indigenous populations living near the U.S. Mexico borderlands.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). I know about the history of legal bias and racism — so when I teach law, I need to instruct my students in ways that bias might show up and what to think about when they ask an LLM a question.” Dr. Vaughn A.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During the webinar, we heard about what generative AI has meant in practice for one university and we explored future developments with our expert panellists. Robin noted that usage of generative AI represented one of the fastest technology take ups in human history. Plus, a lucky attendee won cupcakes for their team!

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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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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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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. remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC.

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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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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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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. A seamless blending of the human agent with AI The future of higher education is here, and it is no longer going to be hybrid.

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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

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. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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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 ). But what do I know?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. That’s disappointing, considering tens of thousands of community college students have the credentials, skills, and talents to excel at selective colleges and universities. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. A customer-centric college or university prioritizes its brand. Rethink general education.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. from Arizona State University in Psychology. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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PeopleAdmin

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A streamlined candidate experience and customizable platform are key to creating a unique application process that showcases the best of your college or university. A forward-thinking school California Baptist University , a PeopleAdmin customer since 2014, has been implementing more and more digital processes over the past several years.

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