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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. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

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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. Of these 634 jobs, 358 were on the tenure track, an increase from both 2020–21 and 2019–20. in 2019 and 2020, based on federal data.

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Teaching Students, Not Subjects

Faculty Focus

Nick Shackleton-Jones (2019) provides a neurological explanation of this principle in his Affective Context Model of learning. Prior to the relatively recent development of formal education in human history, students learned important lessons not in classrooms, but from stories told by elders. References Carey, B. 2014, May 19).

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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). 2023; Topol, 2019).

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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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Educating the Next Generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Simulation-based medical education in the era of AI: a curated reading list

LSE Higher Education Blog

Deep medicine: how artificial intelligence can make healthcare human again Book, 2019 This is a provocative and optimistic exploration of AIs role in transforming healthcare. His human-centred approach proposes that technology could enhance, not replace, personal aspects of care.