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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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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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The human toll of rampant college closures

University Business

More than 50 public and private nonprofit colleges have closed, merged or announced closures since March 2020, and over half of the students whose schools shut down did not re-enroll elsewhere, Best Colleges reports. The post The human toll of rampant college closures appeared first on University Business.

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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). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R. Spitale et al.

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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.