Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab “improperly.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

The campaigners who brought that case, Academia for Coexistence, have sent an open letter to Spanish senators asking them to scrap an article in Spain’s long-debated higher education reform law, which has passed the lower house of Parliament and is pending approval by the upper chamber. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

” Naturally, since publishing is probably the prime task of any academic but especially for professors, this occupied two chapters: one on books; and one on academic articles. The chapter on academic articles contained excellent advice about authorship issues and considerations of where to publish.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. As authors like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker have pointed out, humanity is better off by most measures—wealth, child mortality, education levels and more—than at any point in modern history.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Motivate learners to post relevant articles, resources, and personal insights, enriching the collective learning experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution. She blogs here.

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ACRLog

JANUARY 31, 2023

As I’m sure anyone in academia is aware, ChatGPT and its AI counterparts are taking us by storm. It’s not going to give you a fully written article, but it puts words on the page, which can perhaps jumpstart your brain. I enjoyed the way that Christopher Grobe talked about ChatGPT in his article, Why I’m Not Scared of ChatGPT.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mayes has excelled as a scholar and researcher to the extent that she has published over 44 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters. Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

Transgender rights are human rights. ” A small 2020 AAUP survey of professors who were the subject of articles in Campus Reform , a news website with goals similar of those of Professor Watchlist , found that 40 percent were subsequently threatened with harm, including physical violence or death.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Particularly interesting is the notable increase in social media interaction among everyone, including undergraduate students, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as documented in a March 2021 Vox article. Motivate learners to post relevant articles, resources, and personal insights, enriching the collective learning experience.

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ACRLog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the forecourt of his temple were inscribed the words ‘Know yourself’, since it was only with self-knowledge that a human could unravel the confusing tangle of the priestess’s words. Charlotte Higgins, Greek Myths: A New Retelling I read an interesting column in University Affairs that argues work in academia is often task-focused.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” That question has been asked more frequently, and more frantically, since the March release of the fourth evolution of ChatGPT, the generative artificial intelligence that has demonstrated an uncanny talent for imitating human language and thought. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 We can detect that difference.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

As John Warner has explained in Slate , this “crisis” of peer review is linked to a much bigger one—namely, the ever-deepening crisis in the humanities and higher education more broadly. Pushes editors to think about and contribute to disciplinary diversity. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities. Meanwhile, a significant and growing percentage of U.S. It gets worse.

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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. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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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. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The focus of the episode is her article, Recap: What Instructors Need to Know When Working with Neurodivergent Students (Scroll down to access the transcript.) Human bodies were not meant to sit still for 90 minutes or 75 minutes or even 50 minutes. Don't just assume that they can.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Scholarship has nearly always been done from a position of privilege, with respect to the vast majority of the human population, as studying arcane texts or elusive natural phenomena has never been something most people have had time or resources to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2023

In academia, she taught as an instructor in the Emory University Center for Human Health and assistant professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine, where she designed the Master of Public Health Global Health Track. Armstrong-Mensah holds a Ph.D. in international affairs and development from Clark Atlanta University, and an M.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia. Despite a publication record I’m proud of and my recent promotion to full professor, I have to admit that lately I feel worn down, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Even a major can impact compensation, with the Student Voice survey showing that science majors are more likely to say their most recent internship was paid compared to arts/humanities and social sciences majors. The pandemic opened our eyes to inequities in many parts of our world. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. The existence of faith finds evidence in declarations by numerous international human rights organizations insisting on equal access to higher education. ” And in particular, Article 13, item 2. Blog: Just Explain It to Me!

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

September 2022 was apparently the month artificial intelligence essay angst boiled over in academia, as various media outlets published opinion pieces lamenting the rise of AI writing systems that will ruin student writing and pave the way toward unprecedented levels of academic misconduct. Then, on Sept. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Harvard University recently created the Crimson Folders program—part of its We’re All Human health and wellness campaign—to give faculty and staff in each school the tools to “recognize, respond, refer and resource” students undergoing mental health challenges. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2022

My background is in Educational Neuroscience, applying how the human brain learns to improve teaching environments. I’m currently working on summarizing articles of my dissertation, which I hope to have publicly available in the coming months.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

University of Kentucky At UK’s College of Education, the PhD in studies in higher education with a specialization in DEI serves as an important tool in training future generations of DEI leaders in academia. This article was published in our November/December 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Latinx students can have a tough time navigating the numerous structural and institutional challenges that work against them in academia, especially when it comes to attending and succeeding in graduate school. Yes In-Article Careers: 6

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HEPI

MAY 19, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Winchester. I’ve written academic books, chapters, and journal articles. I have letters before and after my name. I have my own car. And so I rally against things I don’t ‘get’. I shouldn’t, but I do.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2022

[This article is part of the Transparency-Accountability-Value series.] Think of how temperature rises, the intrusion of salt into fresh water, and the arrival of new diseases can sabotage agriculture, which then leads to human misery and economic dislocation. Academia on the world stage.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While there will always be clashes and disputes in academia, perhaps we could model how to deal with each dispute kindly, individually and with good will, in the name of academic freedom, even in the face of constitutionally protected free expression of outrage or unprotected violent speech. The support of teammates mitigated the trauma.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Dr Gavin Miller ( @drgavinmiller ) is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Glasgow. This blog post draws on his recent article, ‘ Disruption, transformation and silos: medical humanities and the management gurus ’ published in Medical Humanities.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 20, 2020 © Magna Publications. I learned very quickly that academia demands a degree of performance. Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor!

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