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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. These values run contrary to systemic oppression.

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

I’d like to think that one thing he wouldn’t advise was denial. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite. This is not to dilute the rigours of academia but to enhance them.

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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. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?

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Scholars Respond to the Death of a University Administrator

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many Black women also suffer intersectional discrimination out in the world, which can lead to trauma, mental health challenges, and “racial battle fatigue,” even before they step foot into academia.

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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In June, Harvard University announced a $200 million gift to launch the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, an academic center dedicated to the study of one of humanity’s most pressing threats. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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Student Worker Organizing Efforts See Drastic Uptick

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“What we show in our study is that there's been a large increase among undergraduate student workers to unionize – resident advisers, dining staff, and others who are working on campus," Herbert said. candidate in sociology wrote in an email to Diverse.

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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. Will Asimov’s rules of robotics apply with regard to their potential sentience?