Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University , is titled, “Kendi’s Fallacy and Its Consequences” and subtitled, “Are humans really all the same?” Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. A good place to start is with the strange history of the banana , as illustrated by Ashley Buchanan in one of her Juncture-powered PHL pieces. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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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. 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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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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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?: Yes In-Article Careers: 6 Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement? : Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Higher Education Inquirer has published a number of articles on robocolleges, robostudents, and robowork, noting that the University of Phoenix has been a pioneer in the evolution of making humans more machine-like (or in science fiction terms, cyborgs). It's not known how many humans are involved in teaching or content creation.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race. But they never came.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Related article: The College Dream is Over (Gary Roth) Related article: When College Choice is a Fraud Related article: The Higher Education Assembly Line Related article: Academic Capitalism and the next phase of the College Meltdown Have you ever wondered why US student loan debt has soared past all other debt but mortgages, to more than $1.7

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2] Exploring ChatGPT. [1]

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

One reason why there is so much horror whenever MIT becomes embroiled in the culture wars – see an example in a recent Wall Street Journal article – is because alumni and others are terrified that this will slow MIT down, or change its driving culture. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements?

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2024

The article below responds to this piece published by HEPI last week, which called for the open access requirement to be excluded from the Research Excellence Framework. The proposed enlargement of the REF mandate to include long-form humanities work (books) will extend these benefits to these outputs.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? 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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). I am beginning to think the only way out of this is to focus on the relational aspect of education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This article looks back at the report and considers what the lessons might be for politicians, officials and higher education leaders contemplating a future review. As others have shown in the recent past, not least Nick Hillman in his article on the Anderson Report in 1960, many parts of this expansion were already in train (Hillman, 2013).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

” They have no interest in the history and the conflict of that too vague term. For example, do they actually mean “the arts and sciences” or “the arts and humanities”? Professor Emeritus of English and History, and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies. 2022), 16-26. Ohio State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. As authors like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker have pointed out, humanity is better off by most measures—wealth, child mortality, education levels and more—than at any point in modern history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

After reading the article “Another Education Fight Over DEI Emerges…” on CNN.com, a daunting thought came over me. The article seems to make clear that incorporating a DEI statement into the application folio of faculty is not considered necessary. Given the position held in the article, many questions come immediately to mind.

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Campus Sonar

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: The title of this article isn’t a slight to Liz’s SXSW presentation proposal. The world is not ending; this isn’t going to deplete the value of higher education; and even if there are less “traditional college students,” there will still be humans who need and want postsecondary education. Focus on Systemic Change.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It is among the oldest examples of what Weiss calls an “encyclopedic” museum, aspiring to “collect art and archeological materials from the great epochs of human history across the vast geographies of the world.” How much they may overlap with those of a science or history museum is not addressed.).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2024

Now, instead of regurgitating a number that will not be remembered one minute after it is spoken, the speaker is focusing on the relevance of the tower and its place in history. See that article for guidance on making these types of videos. It is a mistake to make each point exactly 20 seconds long, no matter how important.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Christine Saxman and Shelly Tochluk point out on the blog Teaching While White , the Luskin Center for History and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a five-part rating system meant to help teachers and parents, among others, identify five stages of indoctrination into white nationalist thought.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. The book’s description notes that boosters and doomsayers alike anticipate that “machines will soon do everything better than humans.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

The goal is to create “communities of teachers who are doing this work together and are helping each other,” said Karen Petrone, a history professor at the university and co-director of the Holocaust Education Initiative. " She also couldn’t decide on what aspects of the Holocaust to focus.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

“Two students sought knowledge about human rights abuses and their university is punishing them,” wrote Audrey Truschke, associate professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University at Newark, who researches Hindu nationalism. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Myers, director of the initiative and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, said the study of hate is an ambitious undertaking, but the purpose of a major research university like UCLA is to “ask big questions and seek answers that make an impact in society. ” Stern said. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. In history, degrees conferred fell from 884 to 725. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D. ” The “sharp drop" in humanities also stands out, Townsend said. Conferred Drop 5.4%

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2024

Now, instead of regurgitating a number that will not be remembered one minute after it is spoken, the speaker is focusing on the relevance of the tower and its place in history. See that article for guidance on making these types of videos. It is a mistake to make each point exactly 20 seconds long, no matter how important.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” ” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time.

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