Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? Thinking about the pros of ChatGPT in academia Research Assistance: ChatGPT may help academics locate relevant research papers, summarize publications, or provide quick information on a variety of topics, possibly saving them time and energy in the process of information retrieval.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

More than 100 graduate students of color from 18 institutions gathered at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in February for the eighth annual Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference , which strives to demystify having a career in academia. Attendees at the Preparing Future Faculty of Color Conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2023

The hashtag, which continues to grow each day and has turned into an independent Twitter account, has spotlighted the ways academia has persistently excluded and alienated Black academics (at all levels; across all genders). Brandy Jones is a Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Even within the supposedly safe confines of academia, we are not immune to these oppressive practices. Administrators and faculty members are responsible for confronting these unjust behaviors head-on. Representation Matters : Increase the representation of linguistically diverse faculty and staff.

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Years ago, I was speaking with a colleague about one of the paradoxes of university life: tenured faculty enjoy more job security than almost any other occupational group in US society, yet they are often afraid to fight for their interests as a group. My colleague accounted for this lack of collective…

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Chan School of Public Health Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Always strive to see the bigger picturehow your teaching, research, and advocacy can ripple outward to impact lives. Augustine for Health Sciences; Dr. Djora Soetman, Harvard T.H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

Nicastro, West Chester University; Dr. Jeff Martoff, Temple University; Dr. Ronald Krauss, Transportation Security Laboratory Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: It sounds silly but say yes to the things you want to do and no to the things you do not want to do. physics education, West Chester University; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says. Howard-Baptiste currently serves as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

” Faculty members—as well as staffers—are on the front lines of higher education’s battle to arrest declining student mental health, ravaged by nearly three years of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with such stressors as climate disasters, racial unrest, political incivility and culture wars.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2023

‘Going Infinite’ and the Children of Academia joshua.m.kim@d… Wed, 10/25/2023 - 03:00 AM Sam Bankman-Fried and his faculty parents. Byline(s) Joshua Kim

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

The University of Pennsylvania’s Pennovation Center is an example of industry and academia collaborating to provide pathways to commercialization. A continued rise in unionization Unionization is reshaping higher education, expanding from faculty and graduate student employees (GSEs) to student athletes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2025

Bloom, Florida Atlantic University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Focus on the work that truly matters to you, approach it with care, and remain humbleeverything else will fall into Dr. Jesse Ford place. Erik Hines, George Mason University; Dr. Holt Wilson, UNC Greensboro; Dr. Cameron C.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Educators from underrepresented backgrounds and diverse disciplines at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) continue to build a campus-wide support system and sense of community through Faculty Link, an opt-in program now entering its third year. Sharon Inkelas. “I Serena Chen.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Some faculty members and institutional technology specialists are concerned about the speed of Turnitin’s rollout, as well as aspects of AI-detector technology more broadly. Chief among them were the inability of faculty and institutions to opt out of the service and the speed at which Originality would be introduced. ​He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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The Academic Designer

MAY 2, 2024

Martine Cadet interviews Jennifer van Alstyne on the significance of faculty online presence and personal academic websites. They discuss how these websites enhance communication, facilitate connections, and allow professors to share their work effectively in a digital age.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW) women make up the majority of non tenure-track faculty across institutions in higher education.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

Reflecting on my years in academia, I find myself increasingly drawn to the challenge of designing the optimal classone that not only engages students but also maximizes student learning. The post Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Malaklou hosts events like "Evening with an Activist" at the bell hooks center, where students can learn tangible ways to make a difference outside of academia. She said this lesson is deliberate and acknowledges academia and graduate school can be “violent, especially for scholars of color, women, and queer folks of color.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Robert Scott The University System of Georgia's Board of Regents has named Dr. Robert Scott as the sole finalist for the presidency of Albany State University (ASU), bringing a leader with extensive experience in both academia and corporate innovation to the historically Black institution.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I learned very quickly that academia demands a degree of performance. Finding Vulnerability via the Virtual, Authenticity after the Augmented appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. The post Performative Personae?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Among the latest efforts are HB 715 in North Carolina, which would remove tenure for future faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and at public community colleges, and SB 266 in Florida, which would give the state more control over the content of core classes and limit funding for DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The results reflected problems that Black academics have always known to plague academia: institutional racism and insufficient support for Black ECAs that create barriers to job security and career advancement for Black academics. There’s kind of Black academics in particular exiting academia at various stages. think tank.

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Since the fall semester started, I taught or assisted with 14 library instruction sessions, held over 40 research consultations with students and faculty members, attended two conferences, agreed to co-author two scoping reviews, and assisted with the planning and running of two major events that occurred over the last two weeks on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) will host its 8th annual early-career faculty professional development program, ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility & Training Educators), this week. I arrived at ELEVATE wondering if the tenure track was right for me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Williams is responsible for hashtag movements on X, formerly known as Twitter, including #CiteASista and #SisterPhD, which celebrated, acknowledged, and shared the achievements of Black women in academia. Williams has continued her work in HIV awareness and activism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. They’re on a journey.

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The Academic Designer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This anthology features faculty and writers from the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University. Andrea Rexilius discusses her edited anthology, We Can See Into Another Place, highlighting its multi-genre approach to social justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

SREB officials point out that faculty of color– especially in leadership positions – are still underrepresented in comparison to the racial and ethnic diversity of the students they teach. For instance, nationwide, only about 6% of faculty are Black, just over 5% are Hispanic or Latino and only about 1% are Native American.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

With AI tools and training set to be available across all 23 campuses, the initiative will benefit more than 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty and staff. Key Strategies of CSUs AI Initiative: AI Commons Hub: A dedicated platform offering AI tools, training, and certifications to students, faculty, and staff at no cost.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia? Opening the black box: Helping faculty and staff understand an AI-driven world While many of these features are classic examples of modernist design, we now know that these academic spaces are not conducive to modern teaching and learning.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. Emotional labour has several meanings, and inevitably some are context dependent.

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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By HANK KALET There has been a strike wave across academia that is altering the landscape for those of us who teach and work in higher education — and Rutgers is poised to join the party. Strikes at The New School, the University of California system, the University of Illinois Chicago, and threats by faculty,…

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. .” Non-evaluative feedback and mindfulness may help alleviate students’ negative feelings about writing, thus fostering their well-being.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

" The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. Only a fellow PhD holder will "get" the existential value of institutional shared governance, faculty autonomy, and academic freedom.

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