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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In recent years, higher education institutions have faced increasing pressure to prioritize disciplines with clear career pathways over traditional liberal arts programs, according to a new report from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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Doctoral recipients by bachelor's degree-granting institution, 2016-2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

It shows all doctoral recipients (in 2016-2020) broken out by where they received their bachelor's degrees. It's the NSF, so they break degrees in science down farther than they do humanities degrees. Each time I publish this visualization I get a lot of traffic on the site, and I can see why. This is what we have.

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Humane Ingenuity 42: Not So NFT

Dan Cohen

Previously covered in Humane Ingenuity : the potent combination of human expertise and AI processing. A lingering question: how much “human” is needed? Sofia Karim, Lita’s House – Gallows (?????? ????) / I (detail), 2020, photographic drawing, from the new Infinitude exhibit at Northeastern University.). Scaife, et al.

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Q&A with Vanessa Walker, co-author of Major Problems in American History

Today's Learner

I am the Gordon Levin Associate Professor of Diplomatic History at Amherst College where I teach classes on US foreign relations, politics , social movements and the history and politics of human rights. politics, foreign relations and human rights. She received her B.A. from Whitman College and her M.A.

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

Faculty Focus

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.” link] The post Human or AI?

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

Faculty Focus

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.” link] The post Human or AI?

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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction.