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Book Report Summer 2025

HESA

And that, in turn, means book report time, where I round up everything I’ve read on higher education for the past six months. (If Let’s start with institutional histories, of which I read two: A European University: The University of Helsinki 1640-2010 and A History of Temple University Japan: An Experiment in International Education.

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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. I have had my eye on the Mecca my entire career, studying its history and witnessing what Howard means to the culture. Board of Education decision.

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AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide

ACRLog

Lopez describes the impact of educators and professionals uncritically adopting technology on the students they serve and argues against the passive acceptance of AI in educational settings. Popular books The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (2025).

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Why You Should Be Unrelentingly Hostile to AI

Academe Blog

Long story short: It’s not that big a leap between the technology we had before all the hype started and what we have now. The author here is Nicholas Carr, the author of The Shallows , among other great books about technology: Automation is most pernicious. Also, the writing it produces is really bad.

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Sanders, Jayapal Introduce New "College for All Act" to Eliminate Tuition for Most Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a highly competitive global economy where technology is changing the very nature of work and the jobs we perform, we need the best educated workforce in the world," Sanders said. The topic is explored in the forthcoming book The Student Debt Crisis: America's Moral Urgency , written by Diverse editor, Dr. Jamal Watson.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

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. But there are limits to technological finesse. Gigerenzer sounds more tech-skeptical.

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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.