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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

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 institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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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Rebelling together against the myth of the lone creative genius: how arts-based pedagogies enhanced community learning

SRHE

Yet, as education policy from primary through to higher education continues not only to cut its emphasis on the humanities and creativity, but also eliminate arts and humanities departments altogether, higher education runs a profound risk of further alienating students from the benefits of creative thinking and artistic practice.

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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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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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A Long History of Recognizing Inclusive Excellence

Insight Into Diversity

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, established by Insight Into Diversity magazine in 2012, was created to recognize and celebrate the exemplary work of colleges and universities committed to advancing DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) principles.