Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Student Views on Using ChatGPT Survey results reported by Best Colleges on March 27, 2023, “Half of College Students Say Using AI is Cheating,” are mixed. One-half of college students (51%) agree that using AI tools like ChatGPT on schoolwork constitutes cheating or plagiarism. About 1 in 5 use them anyway.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” link] The post Human or AI?

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2023

This guest blog in our series on leadership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, NCEE , has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Abigail Woods, Pro Vice Chancellor / Head of College of Arts at the University of Lin coln. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A preliminary Amnesty International USA analysis of photos, videos and social media posts shows that at least 20 colleges and universities have used excessive police force against pro-Palestinian protesters, including 17 that have used chemical irritants and 11 that have used kinetic impact projectiles, better known as rubber and plastic bullets.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This lag is evident in the struggles of college graduates to find work that no longer exists, compared to when their parents graduated. How today’s institutions can adapt One way universities can harness the power of learning and the importance of a degree is to emphasize long-term stability and purpose.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“If we want to disrupt systemic oppression, we need a model that prioritizes care, empathy, love, authenticity, healing, hope, collectivity, solidarity, and community,” said Gaston Gayles, president of ASHE and distinguished graduate professor and senior advisor for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at North Carolina State University.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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University Business

APRIL 17, 2024

AI is helping us help our students in ways that feel much more human than skeptics of this new technology might have thought possible. But the best chatbots also incorporate a human touch that manages to be engaging and empathetic. That makes humans more effective at doing what they do best, which is to dig into complex problems.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” link] The post Human or AI?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Dan Cohen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Two years ago on an episode of the What’s New podcast , I interviewed Ennio Mingolla, the head of the Computational Vision Laboratory at Northeastern University, and Ennio briskly shook up my ill-conceived, almost comically oversimplified notions about seeing. Do not be lulled by the faux Rothko and mellow Musak in the hotel lobby.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In January of 2022, Sarah Marshall, an academic advocate at the University of South Florida, reached out to a sophomore student in danger of failing most of her courses. She was a first-generation college student from a single-parent household who had been placed on academic probation and was on the verge of being academically dismissed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Recently, I was a finalist for a job opportunity and was asked “how do you plan on [re]engaging the college community”? Human resources is responsible for engaging with employees to establish community and employee satisfaction. Human resources is responsible for engaging with employees to establish community and employee satisfaction.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

HOUSTON – The University of St. Thomas announced an anti-trafficking collaboration with college and high school students in the communication department, according to a release. Read more on Click2Houston The post Combatting human trafficking in Houston: University of St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

After years of studying higher education and teaching thousands of students, I’m now the parent of a high school senior who’s running the so-called college admissions gauntlet. I adore this human, who started life at barely 4 lbs and has emerged into a thoughtful, sensitive man with a love for soccer and his long-term girlfriend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phylicia Rashad will become the inaugural Toni Morrison Endowed Chair in Arts and Humanities at Howard University. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard. The chair was established in May 2021. Phylicia Rashad Rashad is currently dean of the Chadwick A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m. Dr. Ruth J.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Related links: National College Players Association (NCPA) What we know and what we don't about a historic settlement to pay college athletes (Becky Sullivan, NPR).

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

Michael Sorrell , longtime president of Paul Quinn College. We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

As Dr. Martin Luther King Day approaches this year, colleges and universities across the nation are gearing up once again to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Francis College, in 1964, said Shannon Zlotkowski, assistant provost for DEI at UNE. “And Johnson, Clayton said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Integrate DEI or DEIB into your college or university’s mission statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Badia Ahad will become dean of Oxford College at Emory University, effective Aug. Dr. Badia Ahad Ahad is currently vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. “I from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and both an M.A. Ahad holds a B.A. and a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. In New York City?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

West Virginia University, the state’s flagship institution, performs the song at many of its events. More from UB: How community colleges can build a new teacher pipeline While cuts to language education have been reported throughout the country, most have happened at rural and less selective institutions. How is this possible?

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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. Nor do college curricula, for the most part, examine or analyze pain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, is co-principal investigator. Gilliam, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A new initiative between a Connecticut university and a public school system has been established to help diversify teaching and the shortage of special education professionals. One of the most heralded programs— Call Me MISTER— at Clemson University, has yielded positive results in increasing the number of Black male teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She also received NC State’s University Faculty Scholar in 2018 and is the winner of the Zenobia L. Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award. Gayles holds a Ph.D.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fact, according to RNL’s 2023 E-Expectations Trend Report , college and university websites are the single most utilized resource for students—and 58 percent of undergraduate students use search engines to find a college’s website. We can talk about how we can optimize your pages in search.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

The University of Florida has officially disbanded all activity related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. While the university has received harsh criticism for its decision, it’s simply following orders; last year, Gov. Indiana University leaders aren’t thrilled about the bill and have voiced their concerns.

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