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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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool

The Guardian - Higher Education

ChatGPT is capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input ChatGPT: what can the extraordinary artificial intelligence chatbot do? Continue reading.

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Jones Cultivates Inaugural Role in Faculty Development at Brown

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Corbett, LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe, 8 December 2015). Note that this report was partially derived out of written and oral evidence provided to the Science and Technology Committee, House of Lords (December 2015-March 2016), some of which is flagged below. University Alliance – Written evidence (4 December 2015).

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NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade Gifts $3M for Literacy, Scholarships

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University alumnus and NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade has committed to a $3 million gift to extend the Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program and establish the Wade Scholars as well as support a new men’s basketball practice facility in a future expansion of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center.

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Credentials Awarded Drop for Second Year in a Row

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A. The decreases, he added, make him nervous.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. Winn holds a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Davis, as well as a master’s and Ph.D.