Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Part of the value of this reminder is to help students recognize that our goal for the course is not limited to academic learning but that we bring our whole selves into the classroom and our way of relating to each other should be a fully human one rather than merely instructional discourse. Schoem et al. Bell et al. Goodman, D. &

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Richard is a guest on today’s My Imaginary University podcast with Paul Greatrix , in which he cites James Timpson as one of the inspirations behind his imaginary university. By Richard Brabner, Executive chair of the UPP Foundation and Director of ESG at UPP. I have two and they are both called James.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” Gibbs (2023) conducted a review involving 1.2

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015). Rahmat, PsyD, is a core faculty member at Antioch University, where she specializes in compassion-focused pedagogy, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and mindful self-compassion. Corwin Press. Nilson, L.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This mismatch between expectation and experience can be attributed to the current limitations of AI in simulating truly human-like interactions. Angela Rodriguez Mooney, PhD, is an assistant professor of Spanish and the Texas Women’s University. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing. Multilingual Matters, 2016.

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MindMax

AUGUST 23, 2023

To what extent will artificial intelligence (AI) replace human workers? I certainly don’t have the answer, but I can say one thing with confidence: Even if (or when) robots take over tasks historically assigned to people, they won’t replace the soft skills that are uniquely human.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. 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.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

The Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) initiative, a multi-year effort of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), is facilitating conversations to confront the ongoing impacts of racism, community by community. Launched in 2016 by the W.K. Villareal says.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2024

The argument presented recently on this blog by representatives of Oxford University decrying the linkage of OA to the REF (which is now proposed to apply to long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters) touches on some valid questions about implementation, but we do not find their arguments convincing.

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SRHE

APRIL 2, 2025

Based on our study ( Zhou et al , 2025 ), while universities offer a wide range of support such as laptop loans, free access to remote systems, extracurricular digital skills training, and targeted funding to WP students, WP students often do not make use of these resources. This divide is not only student-level but also institutional.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

With the growing demand for contemporary online education, it is crucial to analyze instructional design – a systematic process that applies psychological principles of human learning to develop effective instructional solutions. Nilanthige Kaushalya Lakmali Silva is a Lecturer at the Department of Accountancy, University of Kelaniya.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Steve West, President of Universities UK and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Freedom of speech and academic freedom are central to the role and purpose of universities.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 29, 2025

The landscape of higher education staffing is undergoing significant transformations, as highlighted in the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) April 2025 report, The Non-Exempt Higher Education Staff Workforce: Trends in Composition, Size, and Pay Equity. higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

million National Institutes of Health grant has been awarded to researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico to explore the link between infertility and long-term health issues among Hispanic women of Mexican heritage.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

by Janja Komljenovic, Katy Jordan, and Jeremy Knox ( SRHE DU Network Co-Convenors) From 2023, the Digital University (DU) network is launching a new strategy to connect its members, collaborators, and friends. Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University in the UK.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Since 2000 it has been structured as part of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) agreement which includes many different sectors, projects and partners including economy, trade, agriculture, human resource development, security and climate change among others.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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. Rossum’s Universal Robots) , where artificial beings, created to serve, ultimately undo their creators (apek, 1920/2004). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

of those who began their first year of college in 2016 reached graduation within six years, a.1 Students who began in 2016 and finished in four years were likely unaffected by the pandemic, said Dr. Doug Shapiro, vice president of research at the National Student Clearinghouse. The report found that 62.3%

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

By learning the patterns, language, structures, and relationships between words, ChatGPT “remembers” the content in a manner that permits it to engage in human-like conversations, answer questions, create content, or write essays. Educational organizations and universities developed quality indicators to guide in the adoption of web tools.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance's Three Playbooks for Student Success. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) operates as a multi-campus laboratory for student success innovation. Thu, 12/15/2022 - 06:00. College to Career. Completion Grants. Proactive Advising. Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Civil rights icon Opal Lee will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southern Methodist University (SMU). Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is expected to receive the honor during the university’s May 11 commencement ceremony. Gerald Turner.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 19, 2023

More recently, design thinking has been introduced as a way for students to explore career interests, career planning, career change, and find fulfillment in their careers and lives (Evans & Burnett, 2016). Dr. Molly Wickam is professor of education & business at Bethel University, St. Society of Human Resource Management.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Is A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures —an interactive, open-access, born-digital monograph developed by Brown University Digital Publications and published in August by MIT Press —the monograph of the future?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D. ” The “sharp drop" in humanities also stands out, Townsend said. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s Letters: 1,389 to 1,192.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. million Andrew W.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This mismatch between expectation and experience can be attributed to the current limitations of AI in simulating truly human-like interactions. Angela Rodriguez Mooney, PhD, is an assistant professor of Spanish and the Texas Women’s University. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing. Multilingual Matters, 2016.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2016, he led a national study analyzing the representation of different races in prestigious academic positions within the field of education. At every university I’ve been, I was hired through a national search and often became the first or only Asian American or person of color on a faculty,” says Endo.

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University Business

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Institutions such as the University of California, Los Angeles; Brown University; and George Washington University; and more are purchasing defunct buildings and renovating them to beef up their value. He completes this in two ways: providing the physical space fosters human connection and program collaboration.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. Since launching in 2016, the program has grown, with its list of partner schools expanding and new Virginia Tech departments taking part.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

university, and the resulting downturn was as expected as it was unwelcome,” says a report on the COVID-era job market, out this week in the AHA’s Perspectives on History magazine. The number of nonfaculty jobs listed (mostly nonteaching jobs within college and universities) increased from 51 to 80 positions, however.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. Orlando was my senior advisor and served in my cabinet at Fielding Graduate University. He honored human beings. We can’t do anything alone.

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