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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” It goes on, “Even a few decades ago, no one could have fully anticipated future investments in computer science, quantum computing, or climate science—fields where Princeton is now a leader.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

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And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. As a busy MotherScholar (Burrow, et al., For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. That’s 2,974 fewer than in 2020. awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic.

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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

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According to the latest Open Doors report, fewer than 16,000 students came from abroad to study humanities in US colleges in 2022/23 – only a few dozen more the previous year, whereas in 2020/21 the number was just shy of 17,000.

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

More from UB: President moves: 2 leaders’ last dances and a search committee stuck in the mud Leverage community college pipelines The University of North Iowa is experiencing its largest enrollment class since 2020, months before the pandemic, and the largest year-to-year increase in enrollment in more than a decade.

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

As with so much else mid-2020, this model had to be abandoned. The students who signed up – from Classics, Architecture, and Computing Science – were up for the challenge of co-designing the project. Our answer has been to revise an existing Challenge Labs offer to students and academic staff.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Participants are encouraged to think critically as they work to resolve the scenario that was designed by faculty from computer science, history, engineering, literature, math and political science.