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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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The Luddite Chronicles: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robots 

Faculty Focus

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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Big universities are flooded with applicants, forced to turn more away

University Business

So much so, they’re remaining test-optional until 2026, at the least, and they believe that strategy is paying off. “ We as humans want to predict what’s going to happen with our kids, but each year that’s becoming more and more challenging.” Espinoza, however, is wary of how we choose to move forward with technology.

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UA Libraries’ Digital Archival Project Empowers Voices Among U.S.-Mexico Border Communities

Insight Into Diversity

Mellon Foundation that began in 2020 and utilizes digital technologies to improve understanding of Hispanic and Indigenous populations living near the U.S.-Mexico Mexico borderlands has the opportunity to make significant contributions to diversifying representation in the digital humanities,” Sutton writes. Mexico border.

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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – the ADA’s Requirements for Digital Content

WCET Frontiers

A and AA success criteria as early as April of 2026. The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a similar update to Section 504 regulations requiring WCAG 2.1 A/AA conformance for digital content in a wide array of health and human services. What is WCAG?

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Using AI to Empower Learning

WCET Frontiers

This comes at a time when the world is becoming increasingly complex, and journalists need to contextualize fast-paced news and help a divided audience understand the bigger picture, from the roots of conflicts to the future of humanity. Setting the Stage It is no small task, particularly as newsroom budgets are shrinking.

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