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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DIVERSE : Can you talk about the history of the Institute for Capacity Building and how the UNITE convening came about? One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. But history tells us that HBCUs thrive when they work collectively.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). The 2010s brought deep learning, with neural networks emulating human cognition; Google’s AlphaGo defeated Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016, devising strategies its creators couldn’t predict (Silver et al.,

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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

In 1975, I designed my own major in College Administration, combining courses in business, history/political science, and psychology. In 2009, he accepted an invitation to move to the United Arab Emirates, serving in senior positions at Higher Colleges of Technology and Khalifa University before co-founding Edu Alliance in Abu Dhabi in 2014.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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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. Indeed, open access has many benefits for many parties.

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A brief history of the ‘honorific’ Oxbridge M.A. degree

HEPI

degree in Astronomy, Geometry, Metaphysics, History, Greek, Hebrew and Natural Philosophy. The advances in technology, especially the growth of railways, meant that a formidable phalanx of non-resident M.A.s In 1830 an attempt was made to make a modern history course a requirement of the Oxford Master of Arts course. [13]

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.