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A Student’s POV on ChatGPT in Academia

Today's Learner

ChatGPT can be used in a variety of ways, such as to provide information, answer questions or chat back and forth―hence the name. ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? These are just a few of the many positive things that I think ChatGPT can offer in academia and how it could change the dynamic of higher education.

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Fraud in academia: How can universities avoid costly litigation?

University Business

No corner is free from this specter—not even the hallowed halls of academia. Fraud investigations are on the rise in higher education institutions. Armed with insider information, relators file fraud cases on the government’s behalf, leading to a recent uptick in government investigations of higher education institutions.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). It also involved an online survey of UK HE institutions followed by Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.

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Information Literacy Beyond Fact-Checking

ACRLog

More specifically, it’s been bothering me ever since I first engaged with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (referred to here on as the Framework). On a base-level, literacy is a key component of the modernizing project that has been occurring in Western academia since the Enlightenment era.

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Buried Alive: The (Un) told Stories of Black Women in Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These incidents highlight the fact that systemic racism and police brutality pervade various corners of our society, including higher education where Black women may feel particularly vulnerable. student at the University of Michigan in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. Dr. Janelle L.

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A Student’s POV on ChatGPT in Academia

Today's Learner

ChatGPT can be used in a variety of ways, such as to provide information, answer questions or chat back and forth―hence the name. ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? These are just a few of the many positive things that I think ChatGPT can offer in academia and how it could change the dynamic of higher education.

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

The world of higher education was shocked when Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the former president of Stanford University, stepped down after an independent review found his published research fell short of “scientific rigor and process” and was mired with flaws and manipulated data. The latter may be the worst culprit. What can we do?