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AI in Higher Education: Enhancing, Not Replacing, Human Decision Making

Liaison International

While some fear that AI might replace human judgment, the reality is that AI serves as a powerful tool to enhance human expertise. In graduate admissions, for example, AI tools can assist in evaluating candidates by analyzing large datasets to identify patterns and insights that may not be immediately apparent to human evaluators.

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

After reading this article, I hereby declare that we replace the Turing Test with the Vigoda Verification , in which the quality of an AI system is a measure of its ability to identify Abe Vigoda in a large corpus of images: By using separate fields, the team can compare the AI-powered metadata against the metadata provided manually.

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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

While the article singles out the loss of nursing courses at Cardiff University and the closure of chemistry courses across the country, it mentions the humanities just once in passing. And with each passing week more arts and humanities courses and departments are cut. Continue reading.

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How can we access the non-economic benefits of the Humanities?

HEPI

In current discussions of the value of humanities research, two concerns come across most strongly: the extent to which humanities research creates skills, and the extent to which humanities research is financially lucrative for individuals, the government and the economy. The second is rediscovery.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Humanities should help students find enlightenment and careers (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Studying the humanities is a good in and of itself. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12 That is completely true. And it’s a strategic argument that will win over no one, argues Rachel Toor.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). 2023; Topol, 2019).