Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Coursera blog

JULY 15, 2023

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Prepare for a rewarding career in tech with a computer science degree from one of the world’s leading engineering institutions. The post Trending online courses in business, computer science, tech, and more.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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University Business

MARCH 26, 2024

While job titles such as “computer engineer” and “software developer” accounted for some of the highest-paying jobs, students who earned an undergraduate degree in a multitude of engineering pathways dominated both lists. NACE found that undergraduate engineering majors made an average of $76,740, up 3.1%

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

“But ChatGPT’s answer was so precise that I’m pretty sure it was learning from my own best students,” whom he suspected had posted their work online. Some seek to craft assignments that guide students in surpassing what AI can do. He still encourages his students to use the chat bot.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2024

With adjustments to the way we teach students to think about writing, we can shift the emphasis from product to process It’s getting close to the beginning of term. Parents are starting to fret about lunch packs, school uniforms and schoolbooks. School leavers who have university places are wondering what freshers’ week will be like.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

That disappointed Iddo Drori, a computer science lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose 500 students in one of his classes a couple of years ago had more questions than he had time to answer. And it could tutor students by explaining the steps in difficult problems.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We’re excited to announce the International Foundation Programme (IFP) for Computer Science from the University of London (UoL) , which prepares learners to pursue the UoL bachelor’s degree in computer science in less than a year. 30) Microsoft Copilot for Sales (available for pre-enrollment; expected to launch Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Many, if not most, of our students will be working in a field impacted by data and its quantitative, computational analysis. Future data-related jobs will lie at the intersection of data-rich domains, including economics, science, geography and psychology, working in concert with statistics, computation and business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The outcome is bad for students and industries alike: a lack of social mobility and a lack of qualified workers. million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. Cal State Fullerton’s share of the money will fund six projects designed to prepare students to work in in-demand areas.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. At my institution, the units in our liberal arts college have accepted this invitation for integrative collaboration because we realize our students need holistic learning models to tackle the complex global issues they confront.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Ortega, president of CGS, noted that this increase in international graduate students calls for institutional sensitivity to best serve these students. Support requires real understanding of the cultural context that helps shape the experience of students,” said Ortega. “In

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Image: Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. We can teach students that there is a time, place and a way to use GPT3 and other AI writing tools. When should students rely on AI assistance?

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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. But to avoid a reactionary discussion, it’s important to set the stage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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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. ” No argument from me on this one. Nothing about public disinvestment?

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

International graduate student enrollment continues to rebound since the pandemic froze students in place, and new countries and regions favoriting a U.S. Enrollment has exploded by 100%, thanks to a significant influx of international students who have entered the U.S. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020.

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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. But to avoid a reactionary discussion, it’s important to set the stage.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. Students also performed live sketch comedy in an event called Security Night Live.

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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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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JUNE 8, 2023

ChatGPT could be a useful tool to prepare students for the real world where critical thinking is more important than rote memorization. The use of ChatGPT by students to deal with course assignments raises ethical questions, many of which were addressed in a blog I wrote last week. In later drafts, students must explain each revision.

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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. Our answer has been to revise an existing Challenge Labs offer to students and academic staff.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development.

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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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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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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The assistance that ChatGPT generated for my TCs was the time-saving jumpstart most needed to invest more energy into elements of their capstone project that actually needed their creative human touch. But, again, for my students, this was not a writing assignment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Scholars, practitioners, policymakers, funders, students, and concerned citizens from around the world will convene in October for the 2024 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. Ford , Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. ·

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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WCET Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

CTU’s mission statement includes using technology to educate students. It does, of course, create the risk that students can submit work that is not “original.” To manage this risk, faculty began to view student work differently. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET. This question was of particular interest to CTU leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

As we are preparing our students for skills in artificial intelligence, we know that by 2030 there will be new positions that we don’t even know what they’re called at this point, but we want our students to be ready.” Uzochukwu, a professor in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and the founding director of N.C.

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UW Presidential Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But it’s notable that he also holds adjunct appointments in bioengineering, genome sciences, physics, chemical engineering and computer science. This reflects the kind of interdisciplinary cross-pollination that supports breakthrough discoveries like the work he is leading.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

62% of students surveyed worry little (or not at all) about their college being targeted by cybersecurity breaches or cyberattacks, even though they could jeopardize their personal data. Campus technology investment decisions can represent delicate balancing acts between security, student preference and the institution’s future plans.

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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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