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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 Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

deGregory as a history professor and director of the Howard Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During the 2016-2017 school year, the Brothers to Sisters Club at Compton College reserved a portion of their meetings for Real Talk. HPI has a long history of serving higher education and, specifically, larger community colleges. So, Im grateful to be a part of history in this regard. Compton is the model for that.

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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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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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Racial Healing Hubs Create a Culture of Connection

Insight Into Diversity

Launched in 2016 by the W.K. The goal of TRHT is to jettison a belief in a hierarchy of human value, says Pasquerella. The Citadel researches the histories of racially minoritized members through archival records. Changing that narrative isnt just about shifting perspectives. Villareal says.

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Open Access: A Benefit Not a Burden That is Worth the Cost

HEPI

Their question also downplays the significant public good that the mandate has achieved, including the transformative effect of the REF OA requirements implemented in 2016, which produced a huge boost in the accessibility of UK research. This is particularly pertinent at a time when humanities departments are under threat.

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