Deans for Impact

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this episode, you’ll hear from: Andrea Foster , Professor, College of Education, Sam Houston State University. Shannon Hammond , Assistant Professor of Special Education, College of Education, National Louis University. Leah Brown , Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transitioned from a speculative concept to a transformative tool in higher education, particularly within community colleges. Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That’s because he studied abroad with our School for International Training program in Kenya as a college student over 30 years ago. Through a service-learning summer program in Ghana, I gained knowledge about West African history, culture and sustainable design. We need to provide the same vision that educators had in the past.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

While being mindful of the concerns of plagiarism, equity, and access, some have argued educators must not only accept AI in the classroom but must help their students use it effectively as part of their digital literacy (Bender 2024, 9). As educators, we believe in the importance of fostering innovation and enhancing learning experiences.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

The Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire, believed in a collaborative approach to education, where both the educator and the learner contribute to the learning process. Today, Freire’s teaching is not only relevant but necessary to adopt as we witness the transformation of teaching and learning.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Banning AI use in college classrooms is a pointless and exhausting endeavor. Instead, we should learn alongside our students to become AI literate. It is imperative that all of us, students and faculty alike in higher ed institutions, learn AI basics and earn the right to use generative AI responsibly.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). As soon as the material is assessed, it is no longer significant, and what has been learned quickly drops out of memory (Zull, 2002). What a waste! Implicit curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

The Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire, believed in a collaborative approach to education, where both the educator and the learner contribute to the learning process. Today, Freire’s teaching is not only relevant but necessary to adopt as we witness the transformation of teaching and learning.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

Universities should be well placed to engage in research and education to develop strategies for mitigating these risks. At the University of Manchester, significant investments have been made to better understand AI modelling, deep learning, ethics and security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The data show that attainment gaps are narrowing.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Even though higher education has its own hazing rituals and rites of passage, it doesn’t impose tests of character. I raise these examples to prompt a bigger issue: Are there things that higher education should do but can’t or won’t? We can dismiss flawed graduates as a handful of bad apples.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to The Glossary of Education Reform (2016), engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion students show when they are learning or being taught. Engagement can extend to the level of motivation students learn during the process of learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Campus leaders had to rethink the digital learning resources available, and faculty had to rapidly adapt to changes in delivery methods while keeping students engaged. Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al., 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Overall, my top three recommended practices include: self-regulating strategies, video-based learning, and formative assessments.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That isn’t possible in higher education. Shared governance stands in the way, even though it is conceivable, in theory, to measure student persistence within a particular discipline and student performance in subsequent classes (performance measures that some for-profit colleges actually use).

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

In 2023, WCET will look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide support and resources to help you break through the rhetoric and understand both the promises and perils of AI in higher education. To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Campus leaders had to rethink the digital learning resources available, and faculty had to rapidly adapt to changes in delivery methods while keeping students engaged. Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al., 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Helix Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following reflects these conversations, and I seek to align them with my thoughts envisioning how Gen AI, machine learning, and deep learning can tackle these hurdles. The post Generative AI in Higher Education: A 360-Degree Approach appeared first on Ruffalo Noel Levitz. I’d highly appreciate that!

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education. “Do we have to choose?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

As a researcher in the areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning, I wanted to make sure the new MSCS degree program had a strong framework of courses in machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and other core AI topics, along with course offerings in application and theory. Klivans: Yes.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. Yet the growth of active learning spaces remains incremental.

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2023

The ship is the floating campus of Semester at Sea of the Institute of Shipboard Education, where, each semester , over 500 students spend four months abroad in nearly a dozen countries. It’s one of the best educational things I have ever done in my life.” SAS] is a life-changing, transformational experience,” said Denning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to The Glossary of Education Reform (2016), engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion students show when they are learning or being taught. Engagement can extend to the level of motivation students learn during the process of learning.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In face-to-face courses, learning is compartmentalized into blocks that meet a prescribed number of times per week across the term or semester. It effectively facilitates sequenced and accretive design but regularly loses opportunities to maximize deep learning between class units.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Here’s assertion number one: The fundamental purpose of an education is to learn stuff, but our system of education doesn’t necessarily support that goal. For example, students taking a shortcut to a grade in order to avoid the longer journey through learning is not a new phenomenon.

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EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Our EAB research team spoke with dozens of higher education leaders—ranging from presidents, provosts, and CIOs–about the emergence of AI tools on campus. To help inform ongoing conversation, this article explores six innovative ways higher education can embrace AI with examples from across sectors.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Good Questions Our oldest niece is college shopping. Here are a few of those question and some additional considerations for soon-to-be college students and their families. Adjuncts are a valuable resource for colleges and universities. Lower student-faculty ratios increase individualized learning opportunities.

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EAB

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What Every Cabinet Leader Needs to Know about AI How will AI transform higher education? Student Affairs, Finance, Institutional Research, Schools and Colleges, etc.) This isn't just a question for the future—the changes have already begun. This lets people make productive use of them with little training. and external parties (ie.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. In Relationship-Rich Education by Peter Felten and Leo M. ” Absolutely true.

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2024

Higher ed leaders have been warned about the deep learning setbacks K12 students experienced during the pandemic, which trickled down all the way to the elementary level. Remote learning, catalyzed by quarantine mandates during the pandemic, is a key driver of K12 students’ current academic declines, The New York Times reports.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2025

Artificial intelligence is transforming higher education, influencing recruitment, research and classroom experiences.But while we tend to talk about AI as if its a single, monolithic technology, thats of course not the case. The decision-making processes of these deep-learning systems are locked away in an impenetrable black box.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

What happens to higher education if Trump wins November’s election? We’ve been exploring this question over the past year, including months of reading, analysis, reflection, and conversation about Project 2025 might mean for higher education. [Editor's Note: This article first appeared at BryanAlexander.org.]

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