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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve. Many struggle to actively pay attention.

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Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?

Inside Higher Ed

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? Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What if we ranked universities not by inputs but by outputs?

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We educated our campus communities as to what is at stake in Ukraine, facilitated efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian citizens and offered scholarships for Ukrainians interested in pursuing higher education. According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve. Many struggle to actively pay attention.

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

Insight Into Diversity

College professors aren’t the only ones exploring ways AI can help them serve students more efficiently. According to a recent survey by Intelligent, 50% of admissions offices are using AI to streamline some of their screening processes, a number that is only expected to grow as the technology for algorithms and machine learning improves.

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Warning issued to Taiwan’s ministries over int’l student exploitation

The PIE News

Taiwan’s government watchdog has accused three ministries of failing to protect overseas students from exploitation as the island sets out plans to attract 10,000 more international students over the next four years. Instead, students were forced to work to pay off debts to the institution for tuition and accommodation.

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.