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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. “Whether one is studying to be a doctor or engineer, there is a person behind that specialization making choices and interpreting the world around them.”

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Library Patron Loneliness: Strategies for Building Community and Connection

ACRLog

Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Alejandro Marquez (Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of Denver Libraries) and Brady Niemitalo Woods (Patron Training Specialist at Jefferson County Public Library, Colorado). The fall semester started recently, marking the beginning of a new school year.

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Humane Ingenuity 45: What AI Tells Us About Art

Dan Cohen

Just as text generators like GPT-3 are engineered to provide highly plausible sequential arrangements of words, these AI image generators are designed to meet our expectations, visually. But then again, it also competently echoed the science fiction book covers of my childhood. What is it actually designed to do?

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Inside Higher Ed

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. 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.” Retractions.

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High-achieving Indian alumni honoured in UK

The PIE News

The winners of the Achievers honours 2024: Arts, culture and education Asma Khan | Graduated from King’s College London Khan founded the Darjeeling Express after starting the business as a home supper club. The India-UK Achievers Honours celebrate the professional and social contributions of Indians who have studied in the UK.

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In Defense of Bad Readers

Inside Higher Ed

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty.