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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students. Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities: A Comprehensive Overview. National Humanities Alliance. Princeton Review.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams.

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5 Humanization Trends to Inspire Your Higher Ed Marketing

MindMax

If you’re following 2023 marketing trends as we are, you’ll notice that a new theme has emerged that is often discussed in relation to personalization. That theme is “humanization.” Done well, however, bringing social values front and center can be deeply humanizing and impactful. MindMax can help.

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Ruth Simmons Delivers Stirring Tribute to the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Ruth Simmons, president emerita of Prairie View A&M and Brown Universities and Smith College, delivered the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities to a rapt audience at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Tuesday evening.

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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. Introduction In Ayad Akhtar’s 2023 play McNeal , ChatGPT performs alongside Robert Downey Jr., 2023; Topol, 2019). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

Faculty Focus

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). link] The post Human or AI?

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Promoting AI-Enhanced Performance in the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

One way that online instructors can use AI in the classroom is to become a digital master and use generative AI, such as ChatGPT , to develop deeper content ideas or analyze student contributions within discussion (Mora and Semingson 2023, 57). 2023, 396). AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.