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A university president in Ukraine turns to social media

Inside Higher Ed

“I wanted people to feel that we’re human. ” Made up of observations on everyday minutiae and life at a university, his tweets are both simple and profound. That’s water to flush toilets [when] Lavrov’s ‘humane’ country bombs us and our water pump system stops working.”

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UNC board takes bold step for viewpoint diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

So far, given national surveys of faculty political allegiance, the humanities and social sciences tilt very far to blue rather than red. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12 Include DNU?:

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In many ways, the experiences of college presidents prepare them well to enable institutions beyond the academy to engage the current environment effectively. Why Are Presidents Moving to Cultural Institutions? The voice of the American university president as a public intellectual was once a well-recognized force.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

While rich in insight, the scholarship on Black faculty and staff retention has often been segregated from public discussions that university presidents, futurists, and higher education researchers are having about institutional transformation in the Academy. This article was published in our October 2023 issue.

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AI-generated essays are nothing to worry about (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

What’s more, many of the essays had obvious red flags for AI generation: outdated facts about the cost of tuition, quotes from prior university presidents presented as current presidents, fictional professors and named student organizations that don’t exist. Disable left side advertisement?:

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Challenging 'bad' online policies and attitudes

Inside Higher Ed

Simmons, who is president emerita of Smith College and Brown University, currently serves as senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities, among other national higher ed leadership positions. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Stanford questioned over response to 'Mein Kampf' photo

Inside Higher Ed

FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it. “Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention,” a FIRE program officer wrote in a letter to Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. The text is described by the U.S.