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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since Apple introduced Siri, its voice-controlled software, in October 2011, consumers have begun normalizing interactions with narrow AI. Community colleges have a rich history of serving as open-admission institutions and pioneering college access in America.

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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Both of my parents made their children aware of African history and geography when we were young,” reflects Brooks, during his most recent excursion to Kenya. Well, to my amazement, there was and is a very long-standing and pronounced African American presence throughout the history of Appalachia.”

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He previously was given a death sentence, but that was overturned in 2011. Alongside the opening, there will be a two-day symposium, “Voices of Mass Incarceration,” about law enforcement, prison medical care, public art, incarceration’s effects on women and girls, and the history of incarceration.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961. Its golden jubilees was celebrated in 2011 in response to the changing UK higher education sector. Yet the two ancient English Universities have their own centuries-long histories of creating and multiplying administrative roles.

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Leicester – A super diverse-city

HEPI

For a city that was once the richest in the UK and the second richest in Europe, and which had seen settlement by different people since pre-Roman times, Leicester has a history that is as economically rich as it is ethnically diverse. increase in the population born outside UK living in Leicester since 2011, compared to a 3.4%

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Human memory can only process small amounts of information at once. History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. link] Sweller, J.,