Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Meaningful, productive dialogue can help. Advances in technology are inevitable.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. Is it possible to sharply increase stipends, salaries, and benefits for graduate students, post-docs, and research assistants while maintaining their numbers? Doubtful if we hope to have students graduate in a timely manner. Priorities conflict.

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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 University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. First, pressures on young people from middle school forward to concentrate in engineering, computer science, or business for job security only increased. My pursuing the Ph.D.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A second NASEM report recommends the integration of the social sciences with STEM “because nearly every major challenge the United States faces … requires understanding the causes and consequences of people’s behavior.” The course is taught by and apportions equal teaching time to a computer scientist and a technical communication faculty.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. Upon graduation, newly credentialed students can join the modern workforce. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

International student enrollment continues to rebound since travel restrictions laid waste to foreign student prospects. Three years removed from the pandemic, enrollment has once again topped 1 million students , according to Open Doors, the primary data tool for international students in the U.S. According to the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence. Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools.

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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. This might be the single most important challenge in the history of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I can’t help but look at this century’s coming-of-age movies and ask what they reveal about the 80 percent of students who are of traditional college age. Then, Graff astutely observes, there’s a cultural dimension to today’s student angst that stands in vivid contrast to the greater optimism of his and my generation.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. That may be what we are seeing in the NSF survey in the decline of doctorate recipients, and that students just need more time.”

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

We routinely describe our teaching as ‘research-led’ and train our students to become independent researchers. And since, if we are honest, we are all learning how to do this, how does one foster a culture whereby researchers – students and lecturers – work together to tackle global challenges? The question is: what happens next?

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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? Data can help do that.

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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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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. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 24, 2023

New legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly aims to equalize credit transfers between community colleges and the state’s public four-year colleges and universities, making student transitions smoother between institution types.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Founded in 2019 through gifts from Microsoft and private donors totaling $5 million, the center’s mission is to advance accessible technology and ensure that people with disabilities are active participants in shaping the future by uniting faculty, students, and staff across disciplines.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. This could stifle innovation and limit the potential of AI to support educators and students in new and creative ways.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. This could stifle innovation and limit the potential of AI to support educators and students in new and creative ways.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

These programs are expected to begin their first cohorts in August 2023: Master of Business Administration from Illinois Tech – This program prepares students for management careers in the technology space. The curriculum will include industry partner content to provide students with real-world experience.

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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. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. Women faculty members and faculty members of color spend more time than white male faculty members advising students and serving on committees, activities that take away from time on research and are typically given less weight in salary, tenure and promotion decisions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

W&M’s exploration of an expanded presence is the direct result of faculty interest, established and growing student demand, and the needs of the Commonwealth – all of which are longstanding. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The list would certainly include test-optional admissions, tuition resets, increasing discount rates, student loan abatement and proposed loan forgiveness, the decade-long enrollment decline, the hype surrounding AI and ChatGPT, and the controversies surrounding college rankings, not to mention the upcoming U.S. percent over 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. Whether true or not, college students’ learning outcomes are highly uncertain.

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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. The impetus of all of it was creating a space where students could feel like they belong,” says Cassens. Especially students they may not otherwise have an opportunity to meet. And to us, that’s the beauty.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

Is a University a University without the Liberal Arts” asks Devereaux, referring to a recent shuttering of nine programs in mathematics, history, art, English and philosophy at Marymount University in Virginia. HOLY SWEET CRAP that casual equation of “fewer liberal arts students” = universities becoming vocational schools.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

Many instructors may intend to assess students directly, but that is simply not scalable. If your class load is partially or fully online, most likely students are not doing the work as you had hoped. ChatGPT can act as a debate partner, presenting counterarguments to challenge students’ positions.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

He described moving to Kigali in 2011 to lead the college when it was a small graduate program of just 24 students—23 Rwandans and one Kenyan—housed on two floors of a government-owned telecommunications building across the street from the U.S. Last year, the college enrolled over 150 students from more than 20 African nations.

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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. None of these ideas is original. So what can be done? Here are some possible solutions.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Kothari was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rochester during my brief stint as an English graduate student there. First, he was interested in designing software to teach students accounting. First, he was interested in designing software to teach students accounting. Beyond that, two things stuck with me about S.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We moved many graduate programs online to meet the needs of our students who are largely juggling families and jobs. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We moved many graduate programs online to meet the needs of our students who are largely juggling families and jobs. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education.

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