Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

SSWD is dedicated to encouraging and supporting young people from underrepresented minority groups to pursue studies and careers in food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences, and other STEM fields. Department of Agriculture for which she’s partnered with researchers in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Besides, the humanities cloak an intensely practical side beyond the analytical and communication skills they grow: Shakespeare teaches us statecraft, after all. For many liberal arts colleges as well as humanities-focused departments in larger universities, it’s a pressing one. New tools.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2023

Watkins, his department colleagues and his students are experimenting with ChatGPT to better understand its limitations and benefits. In computer science, for example, many professors have observed that AI writing tools can write codes that work, though not necessarily of the kind that humans find easy to edit, Hendler said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Divisions or departments might agree on expectations across courses. Michael Mindzak, assistant professor in the department of educational studies, Brock University. For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

“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?’” She has started using ChatGPT to brainstorm for papers and debug coding problem sets.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Participants engage in research using statistics and computer science to analyze real-world data on diseases like cancer and COVID-19. The summer academy has an especially strong partnership with the Arizona Department of Education, which helps fund the academy.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

The program includes a science fest, monthly virtual STEM nights, and a summer camp on campus. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments. Some activities are in person, and others require collaboration among student teams. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C. The Paul T.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Computer science faculty ask students to create and run programming codes through a Generative AI platform to identify errors. General education faculty created videos for students demonstrating the use, comparatively, of Google Bard and ChatGPT as a reviewer for the grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure of an English essay.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

In addition to core courses in finance, marketing, and digital transformation, students can also choose from a variety of electives in AI, data science, cybersecurity, and more. Graduates will be prepared for data science careers in business or industry. The first cohorts are expected to begin in August 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Prefacing its findings, the task force wrote, of programs already down to one or fewer full-time faculty members, “Our sense is that some departments and programs have been pared down so much (or, if they are relatively new, have never been staffed or given enough resources) that diminished student interest is self-fulfilling.

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

More flexibility with vendors: Many departments hire custom course design shops. No students need to see content that has not been reviewed by a human expert or interact directly with the AI at all. But a 20% efficiency gain with an expert human reviewing the output? And third, the project is safe. Those are deliberate.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This has a snowball effect, though, because the remaining employees have to pick up the departing person’s duties, and that can lead to overwork, stress, and burnout—causing even more employees to leave. computer sciences, business administration, education). 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.4] 2013, section 3.7]

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. But we should also be having the same discussion with our peers and within our departments.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Adding the Human Element. He was the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his tenure at Notre Dame, he was Chair of the Department of Computer Science and its Director of Graduate Studies at Georgetown University.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I’m taking four courses this term and this is the only time that the impact of AI has been brought up, even though my other courses are computer science and engineering where this technology is going to be most disruptive. But we should also be having the same discussion with our peers and within our departments.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When I was a department chair, I was in service to 50 people. Sheares Ashby: It sounds selfish, but I tell people I mentor all the time, it’s not selfish—the biggest gift I can give to every human is to take care of myself. I didn’t know I was going to chair the chemistry department at UNC.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Students usually tackle on-campus issues, advancing ideas like “It shouldn’t be so hard to get into computer science classes” or “Student fees should be lower” or “Campus housing should be more affordable.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Fewer than one in five respondents are very familiar with their college’s policies regarding the use of personal devices on campus networks, and students who are computer science majors are even less likely to be very familiar, 7 percent. One in 10 of the full sample are not at all familiar. Focus on Connectivity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Department of Education that allows us to look at, if you study engineering or social work or psychology at a specific institution, what’s the ROI you’re getting, looking at your cost relative to the earnings boost you’re obtaining? We have data from the U.S. That gave us a different way to think about it.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Department of Education Hispanic Serving Institution designation, and the prestigious Seal of Excelencia. 00:48:47] So the campus is coming fully east to west in ways that link humanities and arts, housing, graduate students, tech valley, and all forms of partnerships with museum and art activities that are along that same Paseo.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Can financially-challenged institutions sustain the range of majors and faculty size, especially in the humanities, while adding new career-aligned fields?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia. Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. There are also the technical and aesthetic sides of art. The drama club is open to all students on campus.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

I want diversity in different research areas where you don't anticipate a lot of diversity, like in computer science or economics. It's written around business, but it's actually a book on how are you an authentic human leader in any place. I want my leadership team to reflect that diversity.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 25, 2023

Panchanathan’s scientific contributions have advanced the areas of human-centered multimedia computing, haptic user interfaces, and ubiquitous computing technologies for enhancing the quality of life for individuals with different abilities; machine learning for multimedia applications; and media processor designs.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Department of Homeland Security expanded opportunities for international students who have earned U.S. degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, recent regulatory changes by the Department of Education, effective July 1st, have significantly redefined the processes for institutional mergers and acquisitions. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.

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