ACRLog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I’m continuing my work on the ACRL’s Science & Technology Section’s Information Literacy Committee and excited to see what we’ll accomplish over the coming year. The post Back to School first appeared on ACRLog. Some of my work is old hat to me at this point, and some is brand new.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. Hartnell engages in bilingual outreach efforts to graduating high school seniors. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2025

billion in capital and operating budgets, the report is the premier publication on the key trends and data influencing facilities management in academia today. AI tools like ChatGPT are changing howbusinesses and schools operate at a fundamental level. Drawing on their exclusive higher ed database of 43,000 campus buildings, 1.1

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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. And even today, I remain skeptical and suspicious of those from outside of academia (and who do not hold a doctorate) who are recruited to university presidencies and other leadership roles.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2024

Each team created a three-minute video pitch, evaluated by a panel of SAEC award sponsors, with the help of assigned mentors from Australian academia and business, who guided them with their video pitches. Meanwhile, second-runner-ups Swaraj India Public School, Kanpur, received a cash prize of $100 from Australia’s MyCareerMatch.

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Liaison International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Schools that fail to adapt, building inflexible pathways with burdensome gatekeeping standards, often find themselves struggling to attract students. This integration is especially significant between two-year feeder schools and four-year institutions, creating more cohesive educational pathways for students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Eleven of top 20 schools for Hispanic STEM PhD recipients were Hispanic Serving Institutions. “If Over the past year, the Alfred P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

She’s found a way to pursue both, having earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and now working toward a Ph.D. She says that her support system – made up of her parents, graduate school friends, and friends outside of academia – has been crucial to her journey and her well-being.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

Bias and unfairness in the academic world have been persistent, though emerging technologies have revolutionised how students find information and write assignments, making academic dishonesty more accessible. The panic around AI replacing human effort has calmed as knowledge has grown.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. The interwoven relationship between workforce readiness, business and industrial development, and academia has existed since the beginning of public education in the United States (McNamara, 2009).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

billion gift to fund the Doerr School of Sustainability, its first new school in 70 years. That same month, Columbia University celebrated its Climate School’s first-ever graduating class. Academia is founded on the premise of truth seeking. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Shirley Ann Jackson Although not a high school graduate, he was mechanically inclined and ultimately achieved a position in charge of the vehicle operations for the U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

Then, when you kick in the cost of higher education and increased student debt, AI and technology reshaping how we teach and learn, and increased competition among colleges and universities, you have put is nearly the perfect storm. And it will get worse because of the declining numbers of traditional-age students that will kick in in 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. Across Europe, women account for more than half of the continent’s population but just 17% of its information and communications technology professionals.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the short few weeks that professor Alex Lawrence has taught his sales technology course this semester at Weber State University, he finds the level of discussion his students are already having “remarkable.” Before ChatGPT, his class used Gong.io, an AI software that studies customer interactions. “My

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

Through the November 2023 HBCU/MSI Research Summit — a joint effort between Virginia Tech’s Graduate School and the Pamplin College of Business — the university welcomed 25 visiting faculty and staff from participating institutions. Lab and an assistant professor of marketing at Pamplin.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 4, 2023

Technology Partnerships and Higher Education A Conversation With Drew Magliozzi, CEO of Mainstay Alan Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:00 Chatbots Higher Ed Leadership Innovation Spotlight In our mission to promote equity in higher education, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) highlights the strategies of our member institutions.

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HEPI

JUNE 27, 2024

These experiences provide academics with an updated understanding of employer needs, foster opportunities for industry-relevant research, secure funding, and establish improved links between academia and businesses. Reciprocal benefits include cutting-edge research, innovative solutions to real-world problems and enhanced employability.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009. “Since its founding 13 years ago, the Wyss Institute has been devoted to breaking down silos within and between academia and industry,” said Harvard University president Larry Bacow. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. The interwoven relationship between workforce readiness, business and industrial development, and academia has existed since the beginning of public education in the United States (McNamara, 2009).

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unlike malicious hackers, ethical hackers use the same type of skills and knowledge to protect an organization and improve its technology rather than damage it. Both academia and security experts add that schools must emphasize law and ethics so students "don't cross the line" and misuse their hacking abilities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

How could a chat bot that is causing panic in academia leave me with a palpable sense of focus and calm as a professor? I have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and ChatGPT has become my go-to assistive technology for writing and for teaching. Assistive technologies (AT) specifically for folks with ADHD are not new.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do? ” The post Oh, the humanit(ies)!

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MindMax

MARCH 18, 2024

Difficulty balancing school with work and family Earning a 4-year degree requires not only a significant financial investment but also a large investment of time. After spending years in the Greater Boston area, a hub of academia teeming with colleges and universities, I relocated to upstate New York.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Furthermore, the high cost of international schools and international health insurance create barriers to some people coming to China in their 30s or 40s on a salary in academia, said Weeks. China has a few areas where it really excels to attract these students,” said Weeks.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Business schools are filled with educators who cut their teeth on case studies. Invented over 100 years ago at Harvard, these teaching tools are used in about 40% of MBA classes at most top business schools, such as Harvard Business School (HBS), which uses it in 80% of its classes. And guess what?

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even in graduate schools, alumni have a crucial role to play. Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds Similarly, alumni bridge the gap between academia and the professional world. This not only builds a sense of community but also provides firsthand insights into the institution’s value.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Economically developed countries have created a “triple helix” of collaboration between academia, government, and industry, according to panelist Dr. Vincent Idemyor, a professor at the University of Port Harcourt. The creative uses of technology that were pioneered during the pandemic could be critical to future development, she argued.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Writing intensive disciplines still matter, and maybe some of our more technologically advanced colleagues can learn a few new tricks—like teaching “deep” thinking and voice in a project-based learning style—from us old dogs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He never saw himself pursuing a career in academia until his high school biology teacher encouraged him to apply for a scholarship to Cornell University. “It He says evolutionary biology is a field with less racial diversity than other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines.

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HEPI

JULY 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Somayeh Aghnia, Co-founder and Chair of the London School of Innovation. However, neither adequately addresses the critical need for a robust strategy to integrate AI education into our schools and universities.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. He attended a school that specialized in science and while still a teenager in 1983 came alone to the United States to pursue higher education. After receiving his B.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Over the weekend, lots of folks working in academia learned that the OpenAI, ChatGPT interface is now capable of producing convincing (though uninspired) college student quality writing to just about any prompt within seconds. There’s a lot of specific adaptations we can make to a world with this technology in it.

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2023

I stand in a classroom in a primary school in Sussex and take a picture on my phone. I think of the girls I saw going to school in Afghanistan in the old days. My daughters love their school but they talk to their cousins back home who speak through tears of frustration at the lockdown of girls’ education imposed by the Taliban.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

Metzler, a true visionary in academia, healthcare, and diversity, passed away on Saturday, March 23, at his home in Grenada. He served on faculties at Cornell University, Georgetown University, Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine, Bellarmine University, and Kings College, among others. Christopher A. Christopher A.

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