Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. We have the greatest higher education system in the world. In between tracing the historiography of higher education in the U.S.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Cases are engaging, ask learners to work at higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. Below are a list of tools, with more becoming available all the time.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. Or for more creative, personal, analytic, or cutting-edge writing, the work will start with the human writer and be polished in the end by AI.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And its publication by Wayne State University Press earlier this month comes right on time, as a new academic school year gets underway. With a powerful foreword written by veteran educator Dr. Johnnetta B. If you can’t be supportive, leave folks alone,” they write. Don’t seek to be the only one or the main one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Whenever I give a talk and share my educational journey, I like to open by saying that I bleed orange and green, but I am also a die-hard Aggie,” writes Esters, who is now dean of the Graduate School and the vice provost for graduate education at The Pennsylvania State University. “To

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a significant conversation at every educational conference in the past two years throughout my usual treks to teacher education events. To the delight of some, and the horror of some, AI was at the forefront of educators’ minds in 2023.

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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. Their word and phrase choices are more varied than those selected by machines that write. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles.

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ACRLog

APRIL 11, 2024

Over the past four years, our Immersion facilitator team has continued to connect and collaborate; after taking time to reflect on and discuss how we can best serve our community, we are thrilled to be re-engaging with the library community with this blog post series: Discussing the 4 Pillars of Immersion.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

In advance of Kortext Live , we spoke to Andrew Bates (Chief Product Officer at Kortext) about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education, and how it can enhance the student learning experience. Does that mean AI is a negative development for higher education? What is artificial intelligence?

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University Business

JANUARY 20, 2023

ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, has educators and even some students worried about its capacity to promote cheating on assignments. And after writing this article, I’m a little concerned too. Provide insights on how it can serve as a learning tool for educators in K-12 and higher education.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students were already using it as a tool, so I opened my mind to understanding what purpose AI served in the higher education classroom. What were the pros, what were the cons, and how could I embrace the already organic shift disrupting higher education? Students may display intra-personal writing inconsistency.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Female students have put themselves on the plus side of at least one gender gap in K-12 and higher education, new research shows. “In state, young women are more likely than their male counterparts to have a bachelor’s degree,” write Richard V. In every U.S. Girls perform nearly as well as boys on math assessments.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Dr. Kendrick Roberson Black and brown students have historically been on the lower end of educational attainment, said program creator Dr. Kendrick Roberson, an assistant professor of political science at Pepperdine. For its third year, he wants the program to also teach students writing along with math. He also stressed that the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

The bot writes poems, sonnets and essays. Others see opportunity for accelerating discussions about reimagining teaching to help students write prose that differs from what machines can produce. The chat bot is in such high demand that, during this time this article was written, it was at capacity.)

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The UK has the lowest contribution to higher education of any OECD country. As reported by The PIE in December, the latest real-time sample data in the UK is forecasting dramatic falls in international student numbers for the January 2024 intake when compared with January 2023. In 2021, the higher education sector spent £5.6

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University Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Higher-education leaders are seeking better representation and support for diverse student populations. With a wide range of student backgrounds, needs, and experiences to consider, educators have the opportunity—and responsibility—to level the playing field. Higher education is shifting toward ‘nontraditional’ learners.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s time to get in the water. those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf). To support them, I proposed connecting writing and AI pedagogies in a new “WAC LIAISONS” program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Before going deeper with our assertions, we (the authors that pinned this piece) also acknowledge that dishonor, is not the sole experience for Black scholars and sdministrators, who serve in higher education. For example, on one occasion a Vice-Provost asked me to share my research agenda at a faculty meeting. Dr. Ronald W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hill has been writing since she was a child, growing up around books and hearing stories. Hill – currently a full professor of creative writing, English, and African American studies at the University of Kentucky (UK) – wrote her first story while pursuing her master’s degree in English in the early 2000s. Dr. DaMaris B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A result of my forehead muscles squeezing inward when I think and write. I repeat this for a total of 10 times. It is no secret that women scholars of color die earlier in academia and are less likely to be in leadership positions in upper administration in higher education institutions. This is 35.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

If you want to know more about the impact of AI on higher education, Kortext Live , a free in-person event at Imperial College London, is taking place on 25 April 2023. Does that mean AI is a negative development for higher education? What is artificial intelligence? What’s the problem? Is AI bad for learning?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s time to get in the water. those who encourage students to use AI freely in their writing processes (open-ocean swimmers), and, finally, those who want to embrace AI with guardrails (learning to surf). To support them, I proposed connecting writing and AI pedagogies in a new “WAC LIAISONS” program.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Incorporating ChatGPT into the classroom offers a myriad of broad benefits for both educators and students.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Female students have put themselves on the plus side of at least one gender gap in K-12 and higher education, new research shows. state, young women are more likely than their male counterparts to have a bachelor’s degree,” write Richard V. “In every U.S. That equates to 1.6 average for males was in 1970.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Ravaged by a poor economy, declining population and an understated opiate crisis , it has the lowest bachelor’s degree level educated percentage of all 50 states. How ought it be lived? What is right?”

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

I have seen friends on Facebook create decent songs and stunning artistic creations with little knowledge of music or art, all after spending a bit of time getting to know an AI art or music generator. Or for more creative, personal, analytic, or cutting-edge writing, the work will start with the human writer and be polished in the end by AI.

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Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes Research from Pew shows that nearly six in ten (58%) U.S. In higher education, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is still formally in its infancy, but this emerging and often controversial technology is giving pause to many faculty members and looks set to disrupt higher education as we know it.

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2024

Higher education leaders unloaded their grievances over the Department of Education’s botched FAFSA rollout in a U.S. The FAFSA fiasco this year has created a blip in the K12-higher education pipeline that prevents students from “getting derailed and losing traction” post-secondary credentials.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

Specifically, the school was alleged to have prolonged how long it would take for students to complete the second phase of the program, a final “capstone” research and writing project. Her capstone dissertation was sent back to her by Walden’s review committee about 12-14 times, she said. So we kept going."

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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Preventing AI Content Tools in Higher Ed Artificial intelligence is more sophisticated than ever, and rapidly advancing. AI is being used in higher education to personalize learning, provide quicker feedback, and automate many time-consuming tasks. They can write nearly anything, and they’re virtually undetectable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education. From the time I was born in East Texas to my retirement as the first Black president of an Ivy League university, my life has been marked by encounters with extraordinary people.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” And also, I probably won’t be working here by the time you graduate anyway. Speaking as someone with not one (B.A.),

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