Deans for Impact

AUGUST 9, 2022

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pitt is now the fifth university on Coursera in 2023 alone to adopt performance-based admissions, reflecting a growing trend of institutions reimagining how admissions can be more inclusive. We are excited to start the MDS in partnership with Coursera,” said Bruce Childers, Dean of The School of Computing and Information (SCI) at Pitt.

Deep Learning 98

Deep Learning Degree University Deans 98

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Deans, department chairs, and other administrators should inform faculty about classes with unusually high DFW rates or with significance performance and achievement gaps and target assistance to help faculty redesign such classes. Certainly, we can’t make students invest the time, attention, and focus that deep learning requires.

Learning Experience 109

Learning Experience Faculty Professional Development Equity 109

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On the AI subtopic of deep learning alone, more than one preprint was submitted every hour—a 1,064-fold increase from the 1994 rate. “As data-hungry models become the dominant trend in deep learning, what we see is that that incentivizes a certain kind of social phenomenon,” Vallor said.

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