Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. 2019; Morelot et al., Computers & Industrial Engineering, 135, 711–722. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. 2019; Morelot et al., Computers & Industrial Engineering, 135, 711–722. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Zimring’s 2019 volume, What Science Is and How It Really Works , offers a somewhat different defense of science.

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Alejandro Marquez (Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of Denver Libraries) and Brady Niemitalo Woods (Patron Training Specialist at Jefferson County Public Library, Colorado). Loneliness is a universal part of the human experience. Penguin Random House. ALA Editions.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

And since fall 2019, enrollment across both undergraduate and graduate programs has decreased by 5.8%. While “other fields” had the highest percentage over the past one-year period, public administration and services had the second with 14% and arts and humanities had the third with 12%. decrease in enrollment in fall 2022.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Firstly, education is a fundamental human right that should be accessible to all, regardless of gender. in the area of “engineering and technology”. Breaking this down a little further, the proportion of female professors varies across disciplines, with women comprising 50.5% But we’re not there yet.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Hopkins engineers very closed and stage-managed town halls and does not execute any changes based on these town halls.” Before the pandemic, in 2019, students staged a long-term occupation of a campus administration building, Garland Hall, to protest the creation of a campus police force. ” Branville Bard Jr.,

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They included some of the most respected academic and research universities in the world, but also were the engines of hope in a large number of Britain’s less prosperous areas where they were providing vital economic, social and cultural cohesion. Few areas were so poorly handled by it latterly as universities.

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eLiterate

JULY 12, 2023

The repetitive work they are doing now would be replaced by the software over time, freeing up the human brains for other things that human brains are particularly good at. The engineering skills are still necessary. Generative AI is not ready to replace high-quality engineers yet. But probably not.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Between 1977 and 2019, in 2019 inflation-adjusted dollars, state and local government spending on higher education increased from $110 billion to $311 billion, according to the Urban Institute. Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors. The intensifying crisis of the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Every hour in 2019, more than three artificial intelligence preprints were submitted to arXiv—an open-access repository of electronic scientific preprints. ” Today, LeCun is a professor of data science, computer science, neural science and electrical engineering at New York University and chief AI scientist at Meta.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2019, for example, the Student Assembly submitted its own report advocating for increased emphasis in data fluency throughout the curriculum (note if you would like to see how exceptional W&M students are I recommend you read this report).

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This will enable marketers to maximize their benefits while being mindful that, similar to any other technology, biases and potential risks are ingrained in their design, underscoring the importance of human agency. Over the past years, many AI tools and companies have faced backlash due to racial, gendered, and socioeconomic discrimination.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our learners have been asking for opportunities to acquire and practice a range of human skills; to gain competencies that will help them contribute to solving big challenges in our societies; and to engage with specialized industry skills and tools.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. Not only does narrative humanize, but it also educates us about how to put things in order. Engineering communication: From principles to practice.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. There’s no disagreement about the need to improve math fluency and reduce performance gaps.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on September 9, 2019. By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. Not only does narrative humanize, but it also educates us about how to put things in order. Engineering communication: From principles to practice.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

As they study to become research scientists or engineers, Myerhoff Scholars can access a wide range of support services, mentoring, and peer involvement opportunities. Others are taking notice: in 2019, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative donated nearly $7 million dollars to replicate the Myerhoff Scholars program at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Emerald Publishing Limited. Fletcher Jr.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. A decade or so later, my students use various search engines to solicit the same information that I did a decade prior. The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. OpenAI Blog.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. A decade or so later, my students use various search engines to solicit the same information that I did a decade prior. The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. OpenAI Blog.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

2019; Monarrez & Washington, 2020). Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C. is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Renae D. 2021; Reeves, 2022; Villavicencio, 2023). Fletcher Jr.

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I’m specifically supporting master’s students in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development. When I matriculated to Peabody in 2019, there was no communication. And same thing for like the medical school or the school of engineering or the school of management or a business school.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Dr. Mantella, who became Grand Valley’s fifth president in November 2019, just before the pandemic hit, is an entrepreneur and an educator. They’ve been spending less time, if you will, in, I think you teach engineering wrong, X course should come first versus Y course. What are the barriers that we have to confront?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

hooks (1990) calls this unique love and protection ‘homeplace,’ a space that provides a sanctuary that supports the wholeness and humanizing of those who collectively create and exist in said space. Said differently, homeplace is a “space where Black folx truly matter…where souls are nurtured, comforted, and fed” (Love, 2019, p.

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The PIE News

MAY 30, 2024

The growth in English-taught programs worldwide has been largely driven by a surge in programs from non-traditional destinations, which have tripled since 2014, and grew by 48% between 2019 and 2024. In terms of growth by level of study, bachelor’s degrees grew by 59%, while master’s education rose by 43% since 2019.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

Podcast Highlights NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines is a $44 million investment that promotes competition and exploits the innate potential of the region through partnerships. About Our Podcast Guest The Honorable Sethuraman Panchanathan is a computer scientist and engineer and the 15th director of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sustainability is not limited to just reducing carbon footprint, but should span a university’s wider governance practices – its research strategy, talent acquisition strategy, human resources, internationalisation strategy and pedagogy, to name a few. Writing in the Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Purcell et al.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

When the Undergraduate Council of Students at Brown University in 2019 conducted a referendum asking whether their institution should “divest all stocks, funds, endowment and other monetary instruments from companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine,” Brown President Christina Paxson chose not to engage.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And I started haranguing my father: Why had I not been taught slavery —the trade in human life and breath and sweat and bloodletting so important to this nation’s history, to the building and thriving of America? I was not prepared by my education for what I was to learn from Alex Haley about the place I call home. I think it is.

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