Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website. Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students. The basics are very appealing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. We’ve seen a rise in hate,” says Dr. Bridget Kelly, an associate professor and student affairs & diversity officer at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. Dr. Robin L.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. “I’m not sure if any program is doing that, but it’s definitely not what we’re doing.”

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Higher Ed Data Stories

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The prompt for this post is generated by friend and colleague Akil Bello, who, apparently while watching college football the weekend after thanksgiving, tweeted this question : The answer is multi-faceted and complex, and likely varies a lot between the states. At least by my definition. And you will too, shortly.)

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University Business

MAY 9, 2023

The University of New Mexico discovered yesterday that across the state’s college and university system, 60% or more of its students suffered basic needs insecurity, such as food and housing. Behind these numbers is real human suffering. This data should help dispel myths about the privileged college student.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

colleges and universities requiring some form of physical education course to graduate has decreased, according to a recent study from Oregon State University (OSU). It’s good for the human body, good for students — it helps them be better learners, better prepared; it increases cognitive functioning and helps with stress management.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This negation of their humanity and their consequent relegation to sub-human status based on their racial identification provided justification for the pattern of horrific treatment inflicted upon them – a pattern that laid the foundation for the system of chattel slavery later imposed upon millions of hostages stolen from Africa.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Community colleges and regional public universities often rely on federal data not only for compliance but also for peer benchmarking, state-directed accountability linked directly to their funding, evaluating return on investment, and evidence of graduate outcomes such as gainful employment. For the moment, the IPEDS platform remains live.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Commonplace among colleges, ESG investing strategy weighs company impacts on climate change and other environmental factors, labor practices and human rights, and issues of governance—including diversity among board members—as well as shareholder rights and company transparency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes. Dr. Ioana G.

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Continuous Learning Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

LISTEN TO THE EPISODE Learn how to support neurodivergent college students. That is definitely not it." Human bodies were not meant to sit still for 90 minutes or 75 minutes or even 50 minutes. He has worked directly with over 50 colleges and universities and has trained well over 5,000 educators.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Today's Learner

MAY 24, 2023

Mental health should be equally prioritized to physical health, if not more, because humans are easily controlled by emotions due to external stimuli. I personally struggled with mental health my freshman year of college, due to separation anxiety and feeling alone in my challenges from rigorous classwork.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 23, 2022

There are three components to a self-compassion practice which include: Self-kindness Common humanity Mindfulness. Common humanity means that everyone stumbles. Being fallible and imperfect are human characteristics that connect us all. American College Health Association. References. American Psychological Association.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

While the biggest problems are directly impacting only a tiny number of colleges and universities, the effects are widespread because, to the public and the politicians, all 4,000+ institutions are part of the same band. That public is diverse along every possible line and far more diverse than today’s college students. Definitely.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

One of my greatest pet peeves—as an educator, academic and human being—is the myth that life on a college campus is not “the real world.” ” And yet, this myth lies at the center of all the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

With approximately 100 billion neurons and over 100 trillion synaptic connections, “there are more neurons in a single human brain than stars in the milky way!” ( Colón-Ramos Lab, 2023 ). These regulations included a new definition of academic engagement. Educators do not need to become experts in neuroscience.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Then, “it should be converted to human-like content.” The article continues: Dozens of AI humanizing tools are available to bypass AI detectors and produce 100% human-like content. Trying to humanize AI content with cheap Humanizer tools leads to AI plagiarism. The Ball State paper is happy to share.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A 2022 Gallup poll found that educators reported the highest level of burnout of any industry , and 35% of college and university workers reported “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work. Pope-Ruark emphasized that training for administrators on the psychological definition of burnout is necessary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Now almost a year since its release, Brown says CSU faculty and administration are coming to terms with the fact that “policing students’ use [of ChatGPT] is probably impossible, usually ineffective, and definitely inefficient.” Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As Pauline Lipman powerfully states in the book referenced above regarding school segregation: “It breaks a web of human connections in which the social and cultural practices of daily life are rooted, race and class identities are formed, and community is constituted.” Ivery is the Chancellor of Wayne County Community College District.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

The real question now is definitional: On what terms should educators interact with writing generated from machines? ” The company insists that we should not view the content generated by the human-AI interaction as entirely AI or “wholly” human. ” As such, OpenAI recommends that authors (a.k.a.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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University Business

JUNE 22, 2023

It may have come off as harsh for colleges, universities and entire state systems banning the popular TikTok social media app. ” said lead author Ella Faulhaber, a doctoral student in human-computer interaction at Iowa State University, according to UPI.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

With the rise of the new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures. Responses of Colleges Some educators, however, see ChatGPT as an opportunity, not a threat. However, other colleges point to the difficulty of controlling cheating by students. Washington University in St.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

There is more responsibility than ever for college faculty to deliver outstanding instruction in the classroom. With less than half of students who enter four-year colleges finishing within six years, they assert that faculty cannot be allowed to simply just be the expert in their field in the classroom. And Mittelmeier et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I have been hearing from a lot of corners about the threat of ChatGPT automating much of what is currently written by humans. They quoted some figure to scan all the documents that sounded enormous to me, but it was much cheaper than the human labor involved in indexing and then copying any documents once you needed them.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

The definition of AI has changed over time, but put simply it is “a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation”. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. What is artificial intelligence?

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Improving college and university teaching , 30(1), 23-30.

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University Business

JUNE 9, 2023

It’s a question that Noah Geisel, the micro-credential program manager at the University of Colorado Boulder, asks employers, admissions counselors and all other professionals trying to find the most qualified human among the swaths of faceless applicants—the hay. “It’s a crummy tool,” he quips.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

If you want to know more about the impact of AI on higher education, Kortext Live , a free in-person event at Imperial College London, is taking place on 25 April 2023. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Bates, Chief Product Officer at Kortext.

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