Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 9, 2019 © Magna Publications. Instead of snapping selfies, a student makes a BookSnap by taking a photo of a passage from a book, article, or other source and adding images and text to interpret and reflect on what they read (Figure 1). All rights reserved.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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HEPI

AUGUST 12, 2024

Additionally, Open Science and Scholarship initiatives have been seen as a tool for a more socially just approach to research publication and authorship concerns, however this also privileges specific groups and ideologies. They recognise that there are a number of arts and humanities journals in particular that do not meet these criteria.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Ellen Granberg , provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York, has been appointed president of George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. Berberich , interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at the University of Missouri at St. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, gathering data to evaluate how students view their own learning outcomes and how general education courses are targeting those outcomes required creative solutions. Image: Connecting students’ coursework to their future career is seen as an engagement tool and a necessity for career development.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Jerry Balentine , executive vice president and interim provost at New York Institute of Technology, has been named provost and EVP there on a permanent basis. Nemat (Minouche) Shafik , president of the London School of Economics and Political Science, has been selected as president of Columbia University, in New York.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 9, 2019 © Magna Publications. Instead of snapping selfies, a student makes a BookSnap by taking a photo of a passage from a book, article, or other source and adding images and text to interpret and reflect on what they read (Figure 1). All rights reserved.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This was the beginning of plans—announced by Clark president David Fithian—to establish the Becker School of Design & Technology (BSDT) at Clark, keeping intact Becker’s nationally ranked interactive media design and gaming programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. “Yay, that’s progress!”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. ” Those words give vivid expression to a deep divide between those who value creative writing and the arts and those who attach the greatest importance to scientific inquiry, I sense that my students tend to fall into one of two camps.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The authors warn that limited access to active learning spaces may create a marginalizing force that pushes women, in particular, out of the sciences. Researchers at the University of Minnesota found by 2010, for instance, that students in new, technology-enhanced learning spaces exceeded final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JUNE 5, 2024

For educational institutions, mastering the art of enrollment is not merely about filling seats; it’s about creating a vibrant community of engaged and committed learners. For educational institutions, mastering the art of enrollment is not merely about filling seats; it’s about creating a vibrant community of engaged and committed learners.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That is to say, the industry has mastered the art of exploiting universities’ credibility to serve its own interests. 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.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

**Editors note: A previous version of this post included a section with references to a news release and two news articles, on the University System of New Hampshire and a previously proposed plan to combine with additional institutions. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. She earned her Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Simple self-regulating strategies In an article based on the review of more than 40 studies that capture the disparity between the popularity of online learning and low persistence rates of online learning, teaching students to self-regulate is one of the top recommended strategies (Muljana & Luo, 2019).

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Every time I taught it, it kind of doubled,” said Duma, professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science. Image: The first time Stefan Duma offered his in-person Concussion Perspectives course at Virginia Tech, 50 students enrolled. “Absolutely not.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut. According to the Tampa Bay Times , St.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs These seasonal overviews of forthcoming books from university presses usually focus on public and topical concerns: technology, the election cycle, pandemic impacts and so on. ” (All quoted passages in this article are taken from press catalogs or websites.) Peter Benson’s Stuck Moving.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As employers grapple with economic constraints of the post-pandemic world and workers re-evaluate their expectations for flexibility, equity and respect in the workplace, higher education continues to lag in preparing the workforce’s rising generation. At the same time, the global talent shortage is amplified by the growing skills gap.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Simple self-regulating strategies In an article based on the review of more than 40 studies that capture the disparity between the popularity of online learning and low persistence rates of online learning, teaching students to self-regulate is one of the top recommended strategies (Muljana & Luo, 2019).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Unlike my students, they have no access to mental health professionals, outside systems of justice or technology. The questions raised by violence are often addressed by courses in fields such as gender studies, but I am arguing they are also the province of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences more broadly.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Image: Few answers have emerged more than a week after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in a home less than a mile from campus. The incident has left the community frightened and local police grasping for leads. Many students fled campus early for Thanksgiving. The Investigation. On Saturday night, Nov. 30 on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

” After all, the chat bot has apparently killed both high school English and the college essay. Who knows what else it’s capable of? I had not asked for their help and was planning on taking an Uber, so when they offered to take me themselves, I was really touched by their thoughtfulness and kindness.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In my last post , I explained how generative AI memory works and why it will always make mistakes without a fundamental change in its foundational technology. This is part of a larger series I’m starting on a term of art called “product/market fit.” Learning analytics. E-portfolios. Courseware platforms.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Take the case of the visual arts where AI has opened up new possibilities; in the news, we hear about AI winning an art contest and the polarising reactions that experts and the general public have about AI-generated art. For instance, in medicine , AI systems are aiding radiologists in detecting medical abnormalities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The college also boasts successful performing arts, nursing and biotechnology programs. ” Ward had been interested in animal sciences since high school, when she attended a zoology magnet program in Southern California and first learned about Moorpark’s program. Life as a Zookeeper.

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