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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Coursera blog

MAY 2, 2024

Investing in employee education can have a positive impact on the company’s bottom line. Education can be a way for a company to address critical skills shortages and reduce high turnover costs, which can be as much as twice an employee’s salary.

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University Business

MARCH 10, 2023

With every technological innovation comes the need to educate the next generation of students to ensure they can apply those skills to their future careers. In the 70s, it was the computer as it became more available to students and schools. Less than a year later, education technology has come much further than we anticipated.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

What is the purpose of a university education? Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? A liberal arts education is what a society — a civilisation — ought to champion.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Over 240,000 students went to study maths and computer science, engineering programs also received just over 200,000 – and business and management was the third most popular, with 157,000. Understanding the competencies mastered in the study of English, history, the arts, or other creative disciplines opens possible career paths.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Two consensus reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) determine educational programs that integrate learning experiences in the humanities, arts and social sciences with science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine lead to improved educational and career outcomes.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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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

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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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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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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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 24, 2023

Supporters of the bill state that it will ensure students have low-cost pathways to a four-year degree and that it will help address critical workforce shortages, especially in education fields. The legislation will ensure that course credits across 18 majors will directly transfer from community colleges to four-year public institutions.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At 1,057,188 international students in the 2022-23 academic year, the 12% year-over-year growth is the largest in more than 40 years and the largest in Open Doors’ data collection history, said Mirka Martel, Head of Research, Evaluation and Learning at International Education Exchange, during the online release announcement.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It makes sense, considering how higher education faces revitalized pressure from students— and the federal government —to ensure high-value degrees with strong returns on investment. The employment growth rate for jobs in computer and mathematics is projected to be 15.2% Computer and information systems managers: 15.4%

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

In line with our approach to co-creation with the sector, and responding to the input we have received, we announced, in January, that following the extension to the process for the next REF, the four higher education funding bodies had agreed to run a PCE pilot.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

Awarded a small amount of funding to collect information about the depth of digital knowledge in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, the Director of the Institute, Professor Jennifer Richards, turned to recent graduates for help, making use of the University’s internship scheme.

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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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Economics and Change in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Now, educators are rethinking how they’ll teach courses this fall from Writing 101 to computer science. Educators say they want to embrace the technology’s potential to teach and learn in new ways, but when it comes to assessing students, they see a need to “ChatGPT-proof” test questions and assignments.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

—and faculty educated at the most common feeder institutions—may have more information about what is required to gain access to tenure-line positions and receive tenure, as well as networks that provide access to other resources and assistance with navigating adversity. In spring 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded $1.5

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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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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE) at the University of Washington (UW) is leading a transformative movement in higher education and technology. Accessibility has a long history of leading to cutting-edge advances that benefit everyone,” she says.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

These range from first-year learning communities and meta majors to opportunity cohorts, research cohorts and pre-professional support centers in areas like business, computer science and prelaw and premed. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. ” But how? Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. “As The first cohorts are expected to begin in August 2023.

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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? It doesn’t offer a narrowly vocational education, but it is career conscious. But much more needs to be done. ” Ugh.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values. The initial concept of a new entity or school came to the administration organically, from faculty in computer science (the data science program is part of CS) and applied science who are managing the surge in enrollment.

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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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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”). Cardona didn’t say anything about forcing students into an education that aligns with industry demands. He just said students should have access. I mean, I could go on.

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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. At this point in our AI history, it behooves us as faculty to get creative with assessment, to either switch up text-based assignments or to find new non-textual ways of assessment.

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. Sarah Houser, a junior at UM studying Political Science and History, is captain of the JV Overwatch team and also plays for the Valorant team. They c o me from all over campus. And to us, that’s the beauty.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. Our responsive approach is something that I am immensely proud of; we worked together to keep education going, under the direst of circumstances.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. Our responsive approach is something that I am immensely proud of; we worked together to keep education going, under the direst of circumstances.

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