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. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Category: Carpe Careers The impulse to reach out and talk to another human being is what will help you the most right now—and also in the future, writes Briana Mohan.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dolson reflects on her old grading practices and how she switched to new ones because of a very human experience: frustration. Teaching Today Erica M.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Category: Conditionally Accepted While, optimally, such courses would be part of the entire humanities curriculum, they can’t be taught by just anyone without the proper training, writes Carmen R.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Jackson Bartlett describes how to make space for the humanity of students and instructors during troubling national events and crises.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Career Advice Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Karla A. Erickson/Justin Hayworth, Grinnell College Image Caption: Grinnell College’s Humanities and Social Studies Center Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 19, 2023

You watch for posts to your Facebook page and direct tags and exact-match plain-text mentions on your official campus accounts on Twitter or Instagram. Not watching your accounts and responding to tags would be bad business and just plain rude. This is important work and a necessity for responsive customer service.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: As part of a new $560,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, humanities scholars at Wheaton College in Massachusetts are developing 10 curricular modules on the role of race, cultural backgrounds and global perspectives in health and medicine—and professors beyond Wheaton will be able to incorporate them into existing courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

Whitman College is starting a new concentration in the study of human-centered design. Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: New academic programs Is this diversity newsletter?: Indiana Wesleyan University is starting a certificate program in essential business practices. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Three Southern University students who were members of the university’s Human Jukebox Marching Band were killed in a crash in Natchitoches Parish on Dec. Editorial Tags: Crime Is this diversity newsletter?: 6, WAFB reported. The Louisiana State Police identified Dylan Young, Broderick Moore and Tyran Williams as the victims.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The students told officers they were instructed to be respectful toward the bodies because they were human beings. Editorial Tags: Crime Is this diversity newsletter?: Jimenez said he touched the parts of the female cadaver because he was curious about it, and Gupta admitted he may have made inappropriate comments about the cadaver.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

In fact, OpenAI expects a collaborative disclaimer, one in which the published content is “attributed” to a human author (or company) at the same time that the “role of AI in formulating the content is clearly disclosed in a way that no reader could possibly miss.” Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. ’ And that is without human intervention, which would help.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

They reflect violence, which is never acceptable, and a denial of the humanity of members of our community. " Ad keywords: administrators diversity Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: They do not reflect civil discourse. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Now, the team has introduced a neural network—an AI algorithm inspired by the brain’s structure and function—that solves college-level math problems at a human level in seconds, according to their Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published last month.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Svante Pääbo won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. “Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

[link] More from UB: Recent partnerships among colleges showcase how to beat being small Access and affordability: Building students’ practical experience A constant stain on higher education’s public perception is its hefty price tag.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights. Western countries, including both European nations and the United States, have a terrible track record when it comes to the history of human rights.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2023

The college later expanded to include academic programs in health and natural sciences, and social science and humanities. Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

One need look no further than the example of a foreign graduate student surprised to learn that, when Americans talk about their “baby,” they might as easily be referring to a dog as a human. Editorial Tags: Languages Image Source: Prostock-Studio/iStock/Getty Images Plus Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Lai, an associate professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development of Boston College. Q: Humanities professors tend to say that there are fewer grant opportunities for them. Any advice for those in the humanities? Follow humanities scholars on social media. Learn how to find grant opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They engage in more of the daily interactions for which humans have an innate biological need. COVID dealt a blow to humankind; its lingering effects now threaten our humanity. An optional attendance policy with no concessions for human conflict or growth lacks accountability on both sides. We ought not to consent.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For example, do they actually mean “the arts and sciences” or “the arts and humanities”? Section: Admissions Editorial Tags: Admissions Is this diversity newsletter?: ” They have no interest in the history and the conflict of that too vague term. ” It is not part of their nomenclature or discourse.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D. ” The “sharp drop" in humanities also stands out, Townsend said. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s Letters: 1,389 to 1,192.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even (and perhaps, most especially) in times like these, it’s possible to take a human-centered approach that can demonstrate empathy, build confidence, and differentiate your institution. At Campus Sonar, our mission is to restore and grow the public’s trust in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). I am beginning to think the only way out of this is to focus on the relational aspect of education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The book The Limits to Growth galvanized concern worldwide with its publication in 1972, as the authors associated with the Club of Rome wrote, “The crux of the matter is not only whether the human species will survive, but even more whether it can survive without falling into a state of worthless existence.” Teach social change.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Templer’s name, published in Personality and Individual Differences , Templer and his co-author wrote, “We have found, in both human and non-human animals, that darker pigmentation is associated with higher levels of aggression and sexuality (and in humans with lower IQ). Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hartwig , dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of communication at Colorado Christian University, has been selected as vice president for academic affairs and provost at Vanguard University, in California. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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