Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canadian universities. Contributing to this ethos is an engineering, hands-on mind-set.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. But I was impressed by how much you do in publishing to build up a book.”

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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. ” James C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. White House Honoree, Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Dr. Curtis Byrd, co-author of the 2021 book Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor’s to the Professoriate. Pipeline and diversity programs in the database are assessed through what Byrd and Mason call the THRIVE Index : Type, History, Research, Inclusion, Identity, Voice and Expectation.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 8, 2023

These suggestions are a mix of personal and professional development podcasts, books, articles, and shows. – Lindsey and the WCET team ————- Books On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed I picked this one up last year to learn more about Juneteenth. Enjoy engaging fellow staff members with this book.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Higher education institutions are the engines of change in our society, premier hubs for knowledge production," said Graves. Journalists Toluse Olornnipa and Robert Samuels will discuss their new book, His Name is George Floyd , connecting the past with the present.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For four years, she served as program coordinator for University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Diversity Initiative in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). One is the anti-DEI push being made on the field, including book bans at the K-12 level and the targeting of student resources in higher education. students in STEM.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They included some of the most respected academic and research universities in the world, but also were the engines of hope in a large number of Britain’s less prosperous areas where they were providing vital economic, social and cultural cohesion. Anthony Seldon’s latest book is Truss at 10. There is now a clear choice.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues. We read, Weinstein wrote , because “important books shine a unique beam on human behavior, thought and feeling.” ” Weinstein once asked an expert on Shakespeare how much she knew about the bard.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” The 2016 presidential campaign touched off an explosion of books and articles on disinformation, as well as widespread calls to combat misinformation and the supposedly growing contempt for verified facts in today’s posttruth moment. Books can be cooked. On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

It means meeting industry and health editors as often as those who follow the ups and down of education policy — opening the books on the struggle to make a difference. ‘ If we are to challenge assumptions about who we are, we will also need more than updated language and a new contact book.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

At this point in our AI history, it behooves us as faculty to get creative with assessment, to either switch up text-based assignments or to find new non-textual ways of assessment. ” Discover lessons about AI for education through science fiction books and films.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. In this lesson, have your students take the Positivity Test in Barbara Fredrikson’s book Positivity. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. Called Women in Math, Science and Engineering (WIMSE) and housed at Cawthon Hall, the LLC promotes women’s success in STEM.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8 No surprise: computers, math, healthcare practice, architecture, engineering, and business. ” Wait a second. My undergraduates already know that.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? 2023; Perkins et al.,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. In this lesson, have your students take the Positivity Test in Barbara Fredrikson’s book Positivity. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

design a cardboard mini golf game that demonstrates three different engineering practices; transform a children’s book into an augmented reality learning experience; build a board game that teaches younger students about civic engagement; design an invention to address one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

” Math instruction “has much to correct [because] the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming.” As Galileo noted, the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Author Rie Kudan received a prestigious Japanese literary award for her book, The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, and then disclosed that 5% of her book was written word-for-word by ChatGPT (Choi & Annio, 2024). A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? 2023; Perkins et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

design a cardboard mini golf game that demonstrates three different engineering practices; transform a children’s book into an augmented reality learning experience; build a board game that teaches younger students about civic engagement; design an invention to address one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals ).

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Maybe people who read books and enjoy doing their own thinking?) Some of the scientists and engineers who have led the AI revolution are aware of its dangers. The second is the drive of scientists, engineers, and technicians to invent and improve. The dilemma is similar to that in the history of inventing weapons.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Khanmigo is a free open-AI platform for teachers and students that provides multiple tools you can use without having to rely on prompt engineering. This is a win-win in my book. If history has taught us anything, it’s that nothing really changes or stays the same. It just evolves.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ In Conclusion: Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He shared how his years in software engineering taught him about finding the critical balance between the silos of specialization and the generosity required for collaboration. Click here for full audio. Click the banner below to watch the video.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed ® , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. Just read the book. David has written two books. It’s a better return on time.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He shared how his years in software engineering taught him about finding the critical balance between the silos of specialization and the generosity required for collaboration. Click here for full audio. Click the banner below to watch the video.

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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Presidents picking up at new schools John Nicklow While the jazz-playing Dr. Cole takes his talent to New Orleans, civil engineer Dr. John Nicklow is on his way out of The Big Easy to The Sunshine State. in civil engineering from Arizona State University. Located in Melbourne, Fla., He received his Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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HESA

MARCH 23, 2023

Her description of how students get placed in a social status system running from “losers” to “study gods” is itself worth the price of the book. AU: The book that you’ve written is based on work you did observing students at two elite secondary schools, both I think in Beijing, which you’ve pseudonymized as Pinnacle and Capital.

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SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

The history of OfS deserves to be written as a case study in regulatory failure, and one chapter will surely start with former Director of Fair Access Les Ebdon’s accurate prediction that “I can tell you exactly what the OfS will do. The OfS may be an example, but it is probably untypical because it was so likely to fail.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly. Neem, professor of history, Western Washington University. How does learning take place in ways we haven’t experienced before? Remind Students to Think.

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