Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. In essence, Weingarten views AI as a potential asset in education, but she emphasizes the irreplaceable role of human educators.

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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. Without innovation no organization can thrive.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” A faculty member immediately spoke up and stated emphatically, “Everything!” To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values. The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

ChatGPT could be the powerful impetus needed to shift from understanding assessment as the assurance of an educational “product” to assessment as learning. Many faculty simply rely on AI detector tools but these AI detection tools are not even close to reliable and students already know how to work around them.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Adelphi’s female faculty members in the industry serve as inspiring role models. They participate in social activities that create community, such as dining at a faculty mentor’s home, hearing guest speakers, and meeting with medical school representatives. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

To help learners adapt to this new future, Coursera is announcing new degrees, Professional Certificates, and other content offerings from leading universities and industry educators. Graduates will be prepared for data science careers in business or industry. We’re also excited to welcome 16 new partners to the Coursera community.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

” Faculty members and administrators are now reckoning in real time with how—not if—ChatGPT will impact teaching and learning. Faculty members need time to play with new tools and explore their implications. Administrators can carve out time for faculty training support. It depends on the learning objectives.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

Professor Nurse tells us universities need more permeable ‘spaces’ to allow people, skills, and ideas to flow across the siloed structures of ‘disciplines’, ‘departments’, ‘schools’, and ‘faculties’, as well as between universities and industry. Gardiner is used to visiting higher education institutions as a keynote speaker.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year. So did psychology and the social sciences broadly, with the exception of fields including anthropology, which dropped from 447 Ph.D.s Education degrees awarded fell 10 percent year over year. awarded in 2020 to 400 in 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Meanwhile, students and faculty and staff members—end users—who remain unaware of security threats pose significant risks. “It’s really important that end users get cybersecurity education.” Students also performed live sketch comedy in an event called Security Night Live.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As the noted legal commentator who goes under the banner of Unemployed Northeastern puts it: “Some states are busy banning books, other states are busy educating students.” These areas have much lower rates of college attendance, suggesting that higher education is less valued and isn’t a priority.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? What if we were to look back at higher education in 2022 a decade or so in the future? State spending on higher education bounced back; direct expenditures increased by an 8.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Gilbert was honored at a White House ceremony for pioneering a universal voting system that makes voting more reliable and accessible and for helping to increase diversity in the computer science workforce. What is gratifying is changing the history of voting.” in computer science at the University of Cincinnati.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not all news in higher education is doom and gloom. Cynthia Teniente-Matson, President of San José State University, who shares her insights on leveraging the power of public-private partnerships to elevate the institution’s role in education, innovation, and community engagement.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The solution the book proposes is threefold: more guidance and support from faculty and staff, a proactive case management approach to identifying and responding to students who are adrift or off course, and a campus climate that prioritizes caring, belonging and inclusion. Recognize and reward faculty and staff who engage in mentoring.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. 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. Despite being at the top of his field, S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 2: An education that is skills and outcomes focused—that does much more to ensure that students become better communicators and can apply critical thinking, close reading and numerical skills in real-world contexts. There’s nothing wrong with such investments. They’re necessary and indeed essential.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 10, 2022

When you transition from faculty to administration, you tend to go to conferences focused on institutional questions – assessment, retention, general education, equity, and so on. A very creative school might also find a way to weave science into this strategy, but mostly, we separate science from this kind of thinking.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are issues that need to be addressed if we are to improve the quality of the education our campuses offer. The $64,000 question is how institutions can do all these things as well as their existing functions (like research and graduate and professional education) without pricing themselves out of business.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Like many educators, we’ve spent months processing the media coverage and pondering AI’s potential impact on the future: Is AI “an absolute systems-level threat to education” as some argue ? But as educators, it’s important to remember we aren’t the only ones struggling to find our footing. Will AI save or enslave us?

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Like many educators, we’ve spent months processing the media coverage and pondering AI’s potential impact on the future: Is AI “an absolute systems-level threat to education” as some argue ? But as educators, it’s important to remember we aren’t the only ones struggling to find our footing. Will AI save or enslave us?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. Priorities conflict. I don’t think so.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Higher education leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability at their campus can emulate the actions of Illinois Institute of Technology’s ELEVATE program. These include not only students learning from faculty but also students learning from each other and faculty learning from students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Why, then, should my thoughts about the future of higher education be any more accurate? His pieces, which appear frequently in Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education , focus on a series of issues that our campuses should take more seriously. ” Our hunches, instincts, and gut feelings often lead us astray.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

million investment in the institution, and in higher education development across Africa. campus in Africa, other American institutions have sought to invest in higher education on the continent by working with local institutions. “Higher education development used to be, the Global North leads and Africa follows.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently? Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When faculty members at Lynn University, in Florida, did that alignment for all concentrations for their master of science in communication and media and master of fine arts in visual effects animation programs, for example, the government recognized these as STEM degrees for student visa purposes. State Department.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”). Last I heard, Imperial College London was quite a good school and I’m pretty sure most faculty there would be stunned by the notion that anyone would think they were not a university.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s been quite the year for higher education in 2023. Ron DeSantis to extract the “woke” from higher education. Department of Education’s Development Infrastructure Grant Program (RDI) announced in August offers a potential game-changer for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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