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

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

Launching New Academic Schools to Meet Emerging Needs The College of Charleston established three new academic schools: Health Sciences, Natural and Environmental Sciences, and Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics. Obviously graduated from Georgia Tech, I must be an engineer, right? Hsu earned his Ph.D. Andrew Hsu: Thank you.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye.] It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. Will humans still be employed 20 years from now?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

PURE Inspiration The momentum behind the (dis)Ability Design Studio comes from collaboration on the wheelchair of the future between McDonagh, Bleakney, and other researchers in the Human Performance and Mobility Maker Lab (HPML). This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. million Andrew W.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2024

Earlier in May 2024, HEPI, with support from learning technology service Studiosity, hosted a roundtable dinner to discuss how important the human touch is in the age of AI learning. But will there still be a place for a human touch? This blog considers some of the themes that emerged from the discussion.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

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 In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They started with prompt engineering. You can’t answer these questions confidently without the help of actual humans who would be using the product. At any rate, Khan Academy realized their early prompt engineering attempts had several shortcomings. Well-written prompts are miracles. They’re like magic spells.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Using AI in Higher Ed Content Creation The ability of LLMs to generate text that closely mimics human writing has obvious significance for anyone involved in creating content. Additionally, these tools are changing search engine optimization (SEO) by automating the analysis of search trends and competitor strategies.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

AUGUST 27, 2024

Quality SEO Must Go Deeper Than Keyword Rankings Think of a piece of content you’ve engaged with lately, whether it’s a book, movie, or news article. Regardless of the medium, that piece of content probably popped into your mind because it resonated with you on a human, personal level.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. ” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Now, the team has introduced a neural network—an AI algorithm inspired by the brain’s structure and function—that solves college-level math problems at a human level in seconds, according to their Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published last month.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. To humanize online learning, Pacansky-Brock notes, the professor-student relationship should “shift from one of impersonal professionalism toward relational authority. “That’s just as true in a physical classroom as it is online.”

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

It is strange to remember a time before I communicated so habitually through email, the first time I used an academic search engine, or ventured into a virtual learning environment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Then, a day later, and in an apparent effort not to be left out of the AI–chat bot party, Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing search engine. That is, the bots’ underlying technology—large language models—is intended to mimic human behavior. The company’s stock sank after a series of product missteps.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

On Open Badges alone—a leading format for verifiable, portable digital badges—learners can choose from more than 500,000 verifiable, sharable digital credentials, according to a 1EdTech and Credential Engine report. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 … The technology is simply not there yet.”

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 10, 2023

Reading Time: 10 minutes Like search engine algorithms, SEO trends are constantly changing. This pushes schools to apply SEO best practices to cultivate a competitive edge and improve their organic performance on search engines. Knowing how to leverage the search engine for schools through optimization is also key in 2023.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Recent press (including this from the NYT ), in part the reason for the delay in issuing this second of four short articles, have highlighted how deeply unpopular the concept of an immersive working environment in the Metaverse actually may prove to be. There is no doubt that the human brain is clever. We don’t have it yet.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 It’s adding them July 1.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. These keywords help search engines understand the user’s intentions, motivations, and expectations for the results.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

While it caught many by surprise, ChatGPT is the result of a series of developments in the use of chatbots (Chatter Robot) or computer programs that simulate and process human conversations, both written and oral. These keywords help search engines understand the user’s intentions, motivations, and expectations for the results.

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Today's Learner

AUGUST 30, 2024

Forbes defines it as “a computer program that simulates human conversation.” A prompt is a mode of interaction between a human and a large language model that lets the model generate the intended output. An example of the prompt I use is “Discussion board prompt related to business ethics in engineering.” But what is a chatbot?

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. With a background in engineering, he is passionate about the use of technology in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Elicit provides a quick summary of articles using a research question as a prompt, making it easier for students to find relevant information from a database of open-access journal articles. Their engineers are working on a watermarking process to label generated text in order to curb intentional misuse, like academic cheating.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Johns Hopkins University Press, November ), while Gerd Gigerenzer reassures humanity of its nonobsolescence with How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms ( MIT Press, August ). The age of intelligent machines is far enough along that now they, too, can groan at the time/banana conundrum.

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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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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

We take AI tools for granted every day – from search engines to digital voice assistants to facial recognition on our phones. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. ChatGPT is based on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, which is a type of deep neural network designed to generate human-like text.

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ACRLog

JULY 21, 2023

I am seriously concerned by “fun” articles that anthropomorphize ChatGPT in this way. I also find myself concerned with articles that are mostly AI-generated, with maybe a paragraph or two from the human author. Given that, we need to be vigilant about the danger of anthropomorphizing.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. With a background in engineering, he is passionate about the use of technology in higher education.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JULY 24, 2024

Through insightful articles on topics like student success stories, teaching approaches, and career resources, schools can position themselves as authoritative sources of information. It humanizes the school’s brand, promotes the Photography Ethics Center, and surely inspires prospective students.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. It dismisses the extent to which the study of Art History (or another subject in the humanities, social sciences, or physical sciences) within a liberal arts framework can profoundly enrich an individual and society. Yet, this picture is a sham.

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