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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril.

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A Growing Influence: The Power of AI in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

For example, if AI tools are used without human oversight to aid in recruitment or admissions, they may reproduce biases that disadvantage certain student groups, though the understanding of algorithmic discrimination is fragmented and requires further dedicated research.

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

SRHE

Finally, we conducted 20 interviews with ancillary staff, recruited through a diversity of routes and with a diversity of backgrounds and roles. They are both based in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She blogs here.

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Insight Into Diversity Honors Legacy of DEI Innovator, Former Board Chair

Insight Into Diversity

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. He recruited DEI experts from Fortune 500 companies, higher education, and nonprofits to offer their expertise and help us grow our company. Christopher A. Christopher A.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. She was hired by SIUE in 2020 as part of a cluster hire designed specifically to recruit faculty members of color. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Universities are making vocal commitments to recruit faculty who represent the diversity of the student population. At the same time, they struggle to retain the women and minoritized faculty who they have recruited. Moreno at al. Dr. Donna Y.

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Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In: Changing Higher Ed podcast 257 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Andrew Hsu

The Change Leader, Inc.

He also acknowledged that his impatience for change, developed during his years in industry, had to be balanced with the collaborative culture of academia. From Georgia Tech, I actually went into industry and worked for about 10 years before I realized that there’s a better career in academia. Initially, when I first got my PhD.