The PIE News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

English language testing providers are using Artificial Intelligence to enhance the experience of students, but maintaining a human touch within exams is still important as technology develops. But other providers also maintain a reliance on humans within testing.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. Howard University The 3.5-year Howard University The 3.5-year through critical inquiry. through critical inquiry.

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University Business

APRIL 17, 2024

AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. But the best chatbots also incorporate a human touch that manages to be engaging and empathetic. That makes humans more effective at doing what they do best, which is to dig into complex problems.

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look). It’s about humans being human in the classroom, doing the complex, emotional, and messy labor that (as of right now) only we can do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2023

This guest blog in our series on leadership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, NCEE , has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Abigail Woods, Pro Vice Chancellor / Head of College of Arts at the University of Lin coln. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Students at the University of Alabama could soon be required to take fewer writing, humanities and history courses as faculty vote on a major change to general education requirements this week. Students also will no longer have to complete a foreign language requirement if they took similar courses in high school. Read more on AL.com.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many of us have received university-level guidance which helps us know how to respond to AI-assisted writing when we see it (or when an online checker tells us to take a deeper look). It’s about humans being human in the classroom, doing the complex, emotional, and messy labor that (as of right now) only we can do.

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Dan Cohen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Two years ago on an episode of the What’s New podcast , I interviewed Ennio Mingolla, the head of the Computational Vision Laboratory at Northeastern University, and Ennio briskly shook up my ill-conceived, almost comically oversimplified notions about seeing. Do not be lulled by the faux Rothko and mellow Musak in the hotel lobby.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

I also happen to love this passage from Rollo May’s book, which is incredibly relevant to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter. Joel Willick, an engineering student at Northeastern University, has created a delightful robot named Bob ROS , an excellent play on the late, great Bob Ross of PBS’s cult hit “The Joy of Painting.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m. Dr. Ruth J.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phylicia Rashad will become the inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University. The chair was established in May 2021. Phylicia Rashad Rashad is currently dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2023

In the 2020-21 school year, Humanities majors experienced a drop in graduate percentage across the United States. The amount of bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has been steadily decreasing by the tens of thousands since 2010, which is the most the field has ever lost. The post Is the humanities field ‘endangered’?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wayne State University has received $6 million for a cluster hire program to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black Studies center. We are committed to building a much more inclusive public research university that better reflects and serves our city, state and nation.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Utah Valley University bucks the trends. Nussbaum Utah Valley University bucks the trends. By Martha C.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the editor: I am surprised to see Andrew Newman, chair of the English department at the University at Stony Brook, in his March 9 essay "The English Major, After the End, " repeating Nathan Heller’s unresearched and misrepresented “The End of the English Major,” The New Yorker (Mar.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. We’d be like headless chickens,” says Dr John Elliott, a computational linguist at the University of St Andrews. “We Or are they? Look at the mess we made when Covid hit.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2023

People around the globe are so dependent on the internet to exercise socio-economic human rights such as education, healthcare, work, and housing that online access must now be considered a basic human right, a new study reveals.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, is co-principal investigator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

Renowned human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Randall Robinson died Mar. from Harvard Law School – also spent time teaching as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University. 24 at age 81. Robinson died of aspiration pneumonia, NPR reported. Left to right) Sen. Robinson – he held a J.D.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, Jamie Gibbs, commercial director at Edvisor feels that the sector’s struggle to embrace the “human touch” element of digital solutions is the “most significant blocker” to their success. “We maximise the best of humans and we maximise the best of machines and AI,” he added.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

On my father's journey from farm to church to university. By Nicholas Dirks On my father's journey from farm to church to university.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

HOUSTON – The University of St. During Human Trafficking Month, “No Trafficking Zone” has partnered with the university to help educate the community and engage students in the efforts to combat human trafficking. Read more on Click2Houston The post Combatting human trafficking in Houston: University of St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Universal Write Publications (UWP) was founded in 2004 by Dr. Ayo Sekai and has flourished from a passion project publishing fiction and children’s books into a respected publisher of rigorous, peer-reviewed academic literature. UWP represents the growth of a vital aspect of the publishing industry — African diaspora voices,” said Greason.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

No, we will have a new normal,” said West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.” “Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s David Drake explores human and coyote coexistence in urban areas. Section: Academic Minute File: 03-31-23 Wisconsin - Human and coyote co-existence in urban areas.mp3 Event's date: Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 4:45pm Insider only:

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Administrators say they’re responding to a budget shortfall, declining enrollment, flagging student interest in humanities courses, and pressure from parents who want their kids to be prepared for good-paying jobs after graduation. Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’

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