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Private college discount rates for first-year students, 2021

Higher Ed Data Stories

Before we begin, here is what this post does not do: It will generally not tell you where you can get low tuition, with a very few exceptions. That, of course, is a gross over-simplification of the "what" of discounting, and it doesn't touch the "why" of discounting at all. Right where I expected it would be!"

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Humane Ingenuity 46: Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?

Dan Cohen

As we await the next generation of engineered writing, of tools like ChatGPT that are based on large language models (LLMs), it is worth pondering whether they will ever create truly great and unique prose, rather than the plausible-sounding mimicry they are currently known for. This is an impressive feat.

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Why Character Education Should Be Taught

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

The problem is what if the means harms others along the way? For example, what if the end is to amass as much wealth or power as possible regardless of who gets hurt along the way? We can add the rash of school shootings like the recent attacks at the Uvalde School in south Texas and the Parkland School in Florida.

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have to be more effective,” said Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank focused on the future of work and the quality of life in minoritized communities. We’re hoping this summer is where we draw the line in the sand, where we push back,” said Crenshaw. “We

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Weekend Reading: What to do about university funding?

HEPI

Over the next few weekends, we will be running select chapters from that collection as Weekend Reading. That then opens the question of what should be done about the system. However, if students had to pay upfront, as many do in the US, then we might deter young people from going to university.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I don’t recall exactly how I responded in the moment, but with the benefit of hindsight I now know it was a tremor in what would become a seismic shift in our educational landscape. We talked about interpreting statistics like percent change, visual representations of data, survey design, and sampling. motivated reasoning).

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Study: Relationship Between Digital Reading, Improved Comprehension Marginal

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has published new research on digital leisure reading habits, suggesting a mostly nonexistent relationship between digital reading and improved reading comprehension with ‘slightly positive’ effects in higher ed. Lidia Altamura “ Do New Forms of Reading Pay Off?

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