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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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AI Vegans, Vegetarians and the future of AI in Education…

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While these ideas were designed to provoke discussion rather than serve as definitive forecasts, they offer a fascinating glimpse into what the future could hold. While AI could validate grades and ensure consistency, particularly in technical disciplines like science, its role in subjective fields like art and humanities is more contentious.

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Higher degrees or higher ambitions? A new approach to PhDs

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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. The gap between supply and demand is inverse to the situation in parts of science, where jobs requiring a PhD exceed the supply.

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I’m a nobody in higher ed leadership—but I still believe I know what’s right

University Business

On the chopping block were undergraduate majors in music, art and multiple foreign languages; master’s programs in acting, landscape architecture and creative writing; and doctoral programs in mathematics, management, higher education and occupational- and environmental health sciences.

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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High Impact Cultural Competence (HICC) Training: A Feasible Solution to Micro-incivilities Directed Toward Young Faculty and Staff of Color in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jean, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Sociology at North Park University, and I are suggesting training in High Impact Cultural Competency (HICC) (Vaughn, 2007) as a potential solution. These include depression, burnout, poor work performance, and work-related stress. My cowriter, Peter St.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.