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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Inside Higher Ed

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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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year. Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

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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What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” Other universities are trying to draw boundaries for A.I. Washington University in St. The misuse of A.I.

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Job search tips for entry-level roles

Coursera blog

That definition is quite vague because different fields may qualify ‘entry level’ differently. Typically, exploring entry-level roles can make sense if you are looking for your first job , are early in your career, or you’re considering a career change.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

“Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said. “Being in costume on campus as clowns was definitely a lesson learned— not effective.” ” Stanford University also recently hosted a cybersecurity festival —one focused on safe cloud computing practices.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Inside Higher Ed

There is definitely not as much “wiggle room” as you would think in the materials budget! To make sure we are all talking about the same thing in reporting data, the Association of College & Research Libraries and IPEDS collaborate on definitions for library employees. These are as follows, pasted from the ACRL website.