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Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference

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Blogs Looking to the future of advising: 6 takeaways from the 2023 NACADA conference The academic advising profession faces shrinking budgets, expanding student and administration expectations, and increasing turnover—all of which make it harder for institutions to think strategically about advising structure and staffing to support student success.

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Doctoral Distress: Graduate Program Pressures Impact Student Mental Health

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Causes for Concern Doctoral programs are wrought with pressure for students to conduct original research, publish papers and/or present their findings at conferences, and secure highly competitive research and publication funding, all while meeting advisers stringent expectations.

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A dean and her son experience community college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In another instance, he was overwhelmed with his job, his mixed martial arts team commitment and coursework, and so he sought out an adviser. Benton is dean of English and reading at Montgomery College, in Maryland, and an adjunct faculty member in George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strachan had already been doing research in the field at the time of the project’s creation, and she said she was brought onto the project by its creator, Dr. Lena Walton, dean of Alabama A&M’s College of Education, Humanities, and Behavioral Sciences. We have an academic adviser.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021. is growing.

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Int’l education debates AI wins and warnings

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And if AI built into a high-touch, human-based advising service, then I’m all for it.” They also highlighted the potential lack of human interaction inherent in the process and that it may lead to fewer opportunities for students to cultivate their critical thinking skills. “As

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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