Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By 2020 the organization had ballooned to more than 700 members, and in 2021 it became part of Swipe Out Hunger, a national nonprofit. When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A 20-year-old technology student was found dead in her hostel room at Odishas private deemed university, KIIT, allegedly after facing harassment from a fellow student. The incident sparked campus protests, forcing hundreds of students to leave after KIIT closed sine die for all Nepali international students on February 17.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Here's a breakdown of the key characteristics of robocolleges: Technology-Driven: Robocolleges heavily utilize online platforms, pre-recorded lectures, automated grading systems, and limited human interaction. Four schools now have enrollment numbers exceeding 100,000 students.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Since 2000 it has been structured as part of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) agreement which includes many different sectors, projects and partners including economy, trade, agriculture, human resource development, security and climate change among others.

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ACRLog

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2021, I came across the neuroscientist and literary theorist Angus Fletcher as he was rounding the podcast circuits after he published Wonderworks: Literary Inventions and the Science of Stories. Throughout the book Fletcher describes mechanisms in the technology of literature such as the Hurt Delay.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Takeaways From This Teaching Experience The AI writing project was a valuable learning experience for the students, as it incorporated individual and collaborative learning elements alongside technology-based approaches. Moving forward, this skill will be vital as they navigate the intersection of human creativity and AI assistance.

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University Business

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education institutions are in a race to replace 20-year-old administrative systems to modernize the faculty and student online experience, yet new findings show that investments across student, finance and human capital management technology systems dipped harshly following a surge in 2022.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

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. Davidson, 2021; Pritts, 2023) to position AI as a partner in faculty development. This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R. 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

For me, ChatGPT is just another in a long line of technology-assisted tools that I accept may become a routine part of my professional/personal life. Early approaches in the field of generative AI are situated within 1950s-60s computer science and AI research and “aimed to mimic human expertise to generate outputs” (ChatGPT, 2023).

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2024

billion budget allocated to Horizon Europe from 2021-27. The Guild has called for a budget of at least €200 billion for FP10, more than double the €95.5 The post The Guild advises “openness” in European R&I appeared first on The PIE News.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards serve as a potential technology to fill this void in asynchronous online courses.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Within UC’s decentralized model, the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services & Information Technology (CECH) built a robust Student Services Center that provides guidance to students via a team of academic advisors, career development specialists, retention program managers, and a licensed counselor and social worker.

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The PIE News

MARCH 21, 2023

This led to the launch of an ambitious collaboration and learning platform in 2021, the Innovation for African Universities, with a mandate to support universities in building their entrepreneurship ecosystems by establishing the necessary resources, structures, and policies, working in partnership with UK universities and industry partners.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Emotion and narrative are just as (if not more) important as the technology Parkes noted that in Hollywood, hero narratives have long been proven to enthrall audiences in ways few other stories can. How and when will these technologies achieve scale in society and higher ed? Click on the image to open larger in a new window.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Research in neuroscience and advancements in technology provide critical insight about the brain and learning. With approximately 100 billion neurons and over 100 trillion synaptic connections, “there are more neurons in a single human brain than stars in the milky way!” ( Colón-Ramos Lab, 2023 ).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

In a perfect world, technology would streamline the communication process. In 2021, providers on this platform issued more than 74 million badges, which marked a noticeable increase (73 percent) from the 2020 report. … The technology is simply not there yet.” Later, they faxed the documents.

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ACRLog

JULY 21, 2023

I also find myself concerned with articles that are mostly AI-generated, with maybe a paragraph or two from the human author. I was able to get ChatGPT to give me bias by asking it for career ideas as a female high school senior: Healthcare, Education, Business, Technology, Creative Arts, and Social Services. References Bender, E.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

But I have a second, more important mission once you’ve taken a look, perhaps worried about how to approach this technology, and wondered how swiftly AI is going improve and expand. Or for more creative, personal, analytic, or cutting-edge writing, the work will start with the human writer and be polished in the end by AI.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

California Institute of Technology: Students pursuing an undergraduate major in computer science can go down different “tracks” related to machine learning. Georgia Institute of Technology : Recently unveiled the AI Makerspace Lab in collaboration with Nvidia, one of the premier publicly traded companies advancing the role of AI.

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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.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Human-chatbot interaction dynamics: The unique dynamics of human-chatbot interactions further complicate the issue of hallucinations. Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher.

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SRHE

JUNE 29, 2023

While time and space may separate us, the technologies that we use in our daily engagements can weave us together. Interestingly, ‘Technology’, derived from the Greek technē, refers to an art or artifice; derived from Indo European *tekth- meaning to weave, build, join. Technology surrounds us. It’s midnight.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 24, 2023

The organisation’s director general took a hard stance on the “attack” on the Taliban forces banning education for women in the country, reiterating that “education is a human right”. “No Locked down Afghan students may have access to technology. No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education.

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Coursera blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In 2021, we strategically partnered with Coursera to accelerate the development of our digital capacity. Recognizing that a successful transformation requires more than just technology, we prioritized gaining buy-in from stakeholders across Riphah.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

According to the most recent report’s findings, philanthropic giving in the United States reached the half-trillion-dollar threshold in 2021 – the sunset year of the global health pandemic. Their Passions Donors continue to prioritize Education in the top three giving categories (Religion, Human Services and Education).

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. In its simplest form, it is an information tool to be used by humans with both positive and negative aspects.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. In its simplest form, it is an information tool to be used by humans with both positive and negative aspects.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

Proximity of human relationships One of the greatest challenges for an online asynchronous program is the lack of proximity the faculty has with their students. Faculty should work with course developers and informational technology specialist in order to know how their course functions from the student’s perspective. Abu-Moghli, F.,

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