Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Column: Intellectual Affairs Without making any claim to exhaustiveness, here is a brief survey of new and forthcoming books on information technology and digital media published by academic presses this fall. ” Finally, a book that considers the other AI in depth—ailurophile iconography, that is.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

Here’s a fun, brief introduction by Garrett Dash Nelson, with zooming and snapping hand motions reminiscent of Minority Report : And here’s a fuller example on the history of trolleys in Greater Boston: Note that this will work for other digital images, not just maps. I can imagine many uses for education and explanatory journalism.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 22, 2023

He called instead for a new man who was willing to accept pain and discipline and adopt a cold, detached outlook on human life. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence. Pain is an essential part of the human experience. A chief justification for medically-assisted suicide is to relieve unnecessary suffering.

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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Multimedia essays from the Plant Humanities Lab were recently posted and are worth a look. A good place to start is with the strange history of the banana , as illustrated by Ashley Buchanan in one of her Juncture-powered PHL pieces. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Both of my parents made their children aware of African history and geography when we were young,” reflects Brooks, during his most recent excursion to Kenya. Well, to my amazement, there was and is a very long-standing and pronounced African American presence throughout the history of Appalachia.” Those fears have faded. “I

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I believe that human wisdom and experience are really worthy investments. Oxford is one of those cities that is full of both beauty and history, so it became a perfect backdrop for such an important event. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector? This book encompasses ethics, leadership, and human relations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams. history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. “The history classes that I was taking,” Lew-Williams says. Holding several degrees in history, including a Ph.D. Neither did college. West coast in the late 1800s.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s an inspirational message from an inspirational woman who will go down in history as one of the most transformative leaders in higher education.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2024

The argument presented recently on this blog by representatives of Oxford University decrying the linkage of OA to the REF (which is now proposed to apply to long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters) touches on some valid questions about implementation, but we do not find their arguments convincing.

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Educause

MAY 1, 2023

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) established the Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship in 2021 to improve support and access to and sustainability of digital resources and humanities projects related to social and racial justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Asking readers to imagine Islam anew, as a vast web of interconnected traces seen through the prism of time, the book opens with a networked table of contents. Experimentation with new scholarly forms is taking place across a number of libraries, humanities centers and university presses.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This trip occurred in the UK in 2016, at the inception of my business journey with Funliving.com, a student accommodation booking platform. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector? Reading history makes us wiser. Despite advancements in productivity and ongoing global changes, human nature remains unchanged.

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WCET Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Annually, over 4,000 students take our human anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses, paying around $200 for just one of their many textbooks, so we knew a zero-cost textbook that reflects their culture would instill a sense of belonging and have a significant cost benefit for them. Textbook Authors During an Online Book Sprint.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. The next two largest groups were Black characters and non-human characters such as animals, each representing 16%. You see white characters in the fullness of humanity,” she said. “So,

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And did you know all of this mess can be attributed directly to a set of misguided economic nostrums that go by the name of "Human Capital Theory" ? This is the tragedy of deeply flawed Human Capital Theory. Sadly, Human Capital Theory does not take any of this into account.

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ACRLog

JUNE 26, 2023

Book challenges, anti-intellectualism, and DEI higher education legislation makes me hide away from it all. James Baldwin once said, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. They have been documenting their history and making their contributions to society.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. One might attribute this quiescence in the humanities to an aging professoriate or to shrinking doctoral programs and departments and increasing reliance on adjuncts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. We read, Weinstein wrote , because “important books shine a unique beam on human behavior, thought and feeling.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” The passage then goes on to say, “And the Word was made flesh …” These clauses are typically interpreted to mean that a divine plan, divine precepts and injunctions, and divine law preceded and directed human history. That’s why NGOs routinely call literacy a human right.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The reliance on traditional museum artifacts—letters, books, paintings and photographs—tended “to force historical material into certain conventional modes” of display that rendered visitors passive and unreflective.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. History at UCLA. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Weiss’s Why the Museum Matters ( Yale University Press ) and soon got mixed up with rumination on the book. It is among the oldest examples of what Weiss calls an “encyclopedic” museum, aspiring to “collect art and archeological materials from the great epochs of human history across the vast geographies of the world.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? Lambert in their book Relationship-Rich Education. How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). Share your story here.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. With AI, educators can create more differentiated learning tools and enhance personalization.

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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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University Business

JUNE 3, 2024

What the experts say: Drawn from The Book of Isaiah, the slogan has taken a more secular tone that implies the search for oneself. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” ” Central Connecticut State University (Conn.) “Above all nations is humanity.” “Be opened.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Education has been around for as long as humans have been around in some way or another and we’re at this turning point where AI and the emerging technologies that support education are making it available for everyone at any point. Book or podcast recommendation for others in the sector?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 29, 2024

What Chua had intended as a semi-comedic study of parenting at a cultural intersection quickly became a hotly contested book. “A If you actually read the book, you realize that it gets really complicated. Through her open, human connection with her students, she is able to guide them on pathways that may or may not be traditional.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This was an early session linked for our upcoming open access book of the same name, which we aim to publish in late 2023. This book, as well as our research resource website which led to it, focuses on developing critical considerations for researchers who focus their work on international students and their experiences in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He would spend years “trying to search out the hidden meanings of the deep things that make the puzzle and pathos of human existence” – to no avail, baffled and mocked by life’s cruelty. Human life is suffused with pointless, undeserved suffering. Samuelson is no Pollyanna.

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