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Scholars Discuss Advantages and Pitfalls of Social Media in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Social media, namely Twitter, can provide scholars a platform on which they can engage with various individuals within and outside of academia, potentially those who otherwise would not have access to the scholars’ work, said panelist Dr. Laila McCloud, an assistant professor of educational leadership and counseling at Grand Valley State University.

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Pathways to professorship

HEPI

Pathways to professorship is a remarkable book. Also, while Leask is attributed as the author of the book, she is also the editor in the sense that there are other contributors. This is a notable, although unstated, feature of the book as while nearly half of UK university academics as female only 28% are professors.

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IoT in Bangladesh Libraries: A Path to Transformation

ACRLog

Environmental monitoring becomes better: Heat sensors, humidity sensors, as well as pollution sensors help to maintain ideal conditions for books or artefacts belonging to libraries. Also, automated systems contribute to safety by minimizing human errors or risks that might occur during manual processes.

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Tired

ACRLog

I saw Hughes’ poem on social media Tuesday evening, but could not determine which of his books of poetry “Tired” came from. I–of course–had to go to our library’s second floor to read a physical copy of the poem, which I found in several volumes of Hughes poems that our humanities collection has (pictured above).

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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. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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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. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. Third, Cowen worries that the best and brightest choose any career path as long as it is not academia.