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). The findings of the research were disheartening while coincidentally empowering. Dr. Janelle L.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Along lines or race and ethnicity, Black and Latino graduates in the humanities typically earn less than their white counterparts.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. International students comprise 30 percent of the student body.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Higher education is at a dangerous crossroads due to the financial hardships of schools, dwindling support from generations due to the student loan crisis, and issues of demography. However, academia hasn’t caught up with these current technological advances, including AI. There also needs to be a human-centered focus in schools.

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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. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite. This anachronistic measure of intelligence is a disservice to our students and the needs of society. This is not to dilute the rigours of academia but to enhance them. UK institutions must now step up to the plate.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

The center provides services that students need, such as a childcare center, a food pantry, clothing distribution, and social workers on staff. Walker-Griffea’s career in academia began at age 21. The human development she studied in her doctoral program opened her eyes to what was needed on the college level to ensure student success.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Artificial intelligence, or AI , is the term to describe the creation of computer systems that are capable of carrying out tasks that traditionally require human intelligence. ChatGPT is a computer application that can communicate with human beings in real-time. ChatGPT in academia: Is the future artificial? What is ChatGPT?

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Several years ago a student who was not doing well in my class reached out to me regarding some issues that they were having with completing and getting their assignments in on time. I never heard from the student again and they eventually dropped out of the class due to their failing grade. How Well Do You Know Your Students?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Black male students are frequently perceived as problems (DuBois, 1903) and must navigate both direct and indirect deficit ideologies and practices. As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and/or the failure to properly credit the work of others,” he wrote on X , formerly Twitter. When there is less human writing on the internet, what will that mean?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This narrative is not only bad for our students’ mental health, it is also an ineffective strategy for building a lasting movement for change. The problem is not that our students are concerned; critical reflection on the world’s problems does, after all, require emotional work. Partner with local governments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Unionization efforts among higher ed student workers have risen immensely, amid an ongoing downward trend in overall workforce union density – the percentage of union members in the workforce, according to a new report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. workers continues to fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

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.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Several years ago a student who was not doing well in my class reached out to me regarding some issues that they were having with completing and getting their assignments in on time. I never heard from the student again and they eventually dropped out of the class due to their failing grade. How Well Do You Know Your Students?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Others argue that AI, in various forms, has been used to elevate students’ performance in the classroom, and in some cases, overcome barriers to learning (Shippee 2020, 20). To begin to understand how the students perceived and worked with AI, we brought our concerns to the students in our undergraduate courses.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn how to support neurodivergent college students. 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.) It's giving them a fair shot. That is definitely not it." Is there echoing sounds from the hallway?

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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. “Thousands of students may not enter universities for the time being … We see student resistance going underground,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. ’” Mozafari told the student, who had been struggling with a major depressive episode triggered by trauma, that there would be no penalty for assignments turned in late.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

And he’s urging his more than one million followers to do the same, prompting concerns about targeted harassment of the graduate student, Eli Erlick. ” Erlick, a longtime trans youth activist and founder of the group Trans Student Educational Resources, isn’t a stranger to the far right.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured. Epps, 72, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Dr. Crystal A.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. Students are always on their phones. When I sit in advisory board meetings, what I hear from employers is they want students who can lead and serve. Many struggle to actively pay attention. The reality is very different.

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SRHE

MARCH 28, 2024

by Samantha Wilkinson Feedback has been heralded the most significant single influence on student learning and achievement ( Gibbs and Simpson, 2004 ). Despite this, students critique feedback for being unfit for purpose, considering that it does not help them clarify things they do not understand ( Voelkel and Mello, 2014 ).

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Marketing educators face the challenge of equipping students with practical skills that reflect current industry trends. The assignment, “Write a Style Guide and Use GenAI to Write Social Media Posts,” is an engaging way for students to apply marketing principles in a real-world context.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Without proper mediation, those shortcuts can resurface years later at the highest echelons of academia. By studying safety culture across construction, mining, medical care and other industries, Strand has developed a series of recommendations for academics interested in human-error-proofing their research systems and workflow.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

Businesses are hungry for AI-powered growth, students eagerly adopt new tools, and the ethical compass risks getting lost in the scramble. Nearly 80% of students surveyed in the QS Generative AI Student Pulse Survey 2023 use AI platforms for their studies. AI is no longer a buzzword in lectures.

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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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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

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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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Marketing educators face the challenge of equipping students with practical skills that reflect current industry trends. The assignment, “Write a Style Guide and Use GenAI to Write Social Media Posts,” is an engaging way for students to apply marketing principles in a real-world context.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

In my book Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022), I dive deep into my personal experience and share those of other women from across academia with the goal of shedding light and providing language for us to have open conversations about this workplace phenomenon. Not really.

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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

It is in synergy with the erstwhile Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) Centres and Human Resource Development Centres (HRDCs) of the UGC. Currently, Indian universities admit students only once a year, starting in July/August.

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