Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

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WCET Frontiers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Many institutions have struggled to develop institutional-level policies. In a spring survey administered by WCET, only eight percent of respondents reported that their institution had developed and/or implemented at least one AI-related policy. The initial focus of campus policy discussions has centered on academic integrity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

Zamani-Gallaher , Renée and Richard Goldman Dean and Professor of Educational Foundations, Organizations and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Dr. Claude Hutto , associate professor and inaugural dean of the Division of Professional and Continuing Studies at Morehouse College. · Dr. Eboni M.

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Deans for Impact

MARCH 8, 2023

I’m learning so much…about how to be a teacher,” says Camryn Swann, NIU senior and aspiring middle school humanities teacher. Interested in joining the ATTN or learning more about the policy recommendations? Contact Patrick Steck, Senior Director of Policy, at psteck@deansforimpact.org.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. She helped developed policies and processes governing faculty work among other responsibilities at Clark, where she was the inaugural director of the Africana Studies concentration and occupied the E.

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Faculty Development Faculty Deans Provost 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

That virtually every tax law professor (and tax lawyer ) is white highlights a pervasive bias that continues to produce tax policies that harm Black taxpayers. Steven Dean Our tax laws remain outliers on race in their insistence on near total color-blindness. IRS employees are human. Returns have never asked about race.

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Law School Schooling Deans Humanities 126

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Hollis will become associate dean for access, equity, and inclusion in the Penn State College of Education, effective Aug. I chose Penn State because of the dean and the wonderful colleagues I met during my visit,” Hollis said. “I Dr. Leah P. I see a true commitment to anti-racism and diversity and am thrilled to be part of that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Hicks is a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University, where he has served as a dean for the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“The Center of Excellence for Social Justice is a dynamic hub where students and faculty mentors will work together to identify and address issues affecting marginalized communities, striving to implement impactful policy-based solutions,” Favors said. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the latter, she was the founding dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services. In her previous role as the founding dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at CSU Monterey Bay, she was instrumental in supporting, facilitating and developing a number of new healthcare related programs.”

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Students Deans Inclusivity Leadership 92

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Previously, she was acting dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and director of the Pacific Basin Institute and dean of women at Pomona College. and master’s in sociomedical sciences and anthropology as well as a master's in human rights, all from Columbia University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

For Dr. Michael Rodriguez, dean and professor of the College of Education and Human Development at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the simplified presentation of white and persons of color was not ideal, but where the quantitative numbers might be missing, the qualitative quotations included in the report made a big impression.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year.

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Provost Deans Policy Humanities 78

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs and founding dean of the College of Nursing, Health and Human Services at Indiana State University as well as an associate dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa. Williams served as president of Utah Tech University.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. As early as the program’s first course, students will be taught about policy issues, incarceration, criminal justice, and racial bias as it relates to cannabis, Poli said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Professor Emeritus, Educational Policy and Leadership The Ohio State University Anne S. Pruitt-Logan is professor emeritus of educational policy and leadership at the Ohio State University. State College. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Early users quickly found that the eerily human-sounding bot produced unhinged , manipulative , rude , threatening and false responses, which prompted the company to implement changes—and AI ethicists to express reservations. That freed her to craft a policy that began from a place of openness and curiosity.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights.

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Liberal Arts History Humanities Policy 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul has been impressive and thoughtful in his excellent career as a faculty member specializing in evolutionary genetics and as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania,” said Earlham Board Chair Tom Thornburg. “He

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. Degree programs are focused on global and community health, health administration and policy, nursing, nutrition and food studies, and social work. This commitment is especially critical in this moment of intense social change.

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Schooling Degree Humanities Policy 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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Education Faculty Humanities Technology 118

Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Universities and colleges work hard to ensure diversity among faculty and staff, so when a valued employee from an underrepresented group enters a human resources office for their exit interview — and that’s the first time a supervisor learns the individual has been dissatisfied in their job — alarm bells should start ringing.

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Inclusivity Faculty Humanities Equity 109

University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Brooks School of Public Policy and launched new programs in sustainability, digital agriculture, artificial intelligence and design, among other areas. Chilton also served as Washington State’s provost and executive vice president and was previously dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University in New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Humans are no different. Research suggests that we send cues affecting underrepresented students’ aspirations, application, and enrollment decisions through three channels: public policies, admissions requirements, and recruitment and advising interactions. We, too, instinctively avoid environments that look unhealthy or unwelcoming.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Academic Affairs Improving completion rates in gateway courses: Applying a root cause analysis model and equity lens Betsy Dunn-Williams, Dean of Academic Success, Campbell University Academic transformation framework implementation: Enhancing professional practice in higher education Dr. Denise Brown, Associate Dean of Health Sciences, The Christ (..)

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Arts And Sciences Provost Deans Retention 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In fall 2021, the Brooking Institution, a nonprofit public policy research organization, found that males make up four out of every ten college students. Dr. Carolina Gonzalez, assistant dean for administrative, external and student affairs in the college of education and human services at MSU, is helping to coordinate and plan MEGA’s events.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

They claim, “All policies should be color-blind, otherwise “we” are practicing reverse discrimination and racism against white people.” Affirmative Action policies were a start to combat racial discrimination. One of my all-time favorite assertions is that affirmative action is a form of reverse discrimination.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Adding the Human Element. And then I’ll talk about Peter Freeman , one of the first Deans of Computing at Georgia Tech. Peter Freeman (Founding Dean and Dean Emeritus at Georgia Tech's College of Computing). Just about everyone can point to surprises along their career path, and President Blake shared his. "I

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, popular courses in human physiology and public speaking have VR experiences from Coursera and Meta that enable learners to practice skills in a hands-on virtual environment. Universities are even creating digital twin campuses with Meta to increase skills competency in areas that previously couldn’t be studied online.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, popular courses in human physiology and public speaking have VR experiences from Coursera and Meta that enable learners to practice skills in a hands-on virtual environment. Universities are even creating digital twin campuses with Meta to increase skills competency in areas that previously couldn’t be studied online.

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Higher Education Education Learning Experience University 52

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the government is taking steps to install regime loyalists in the top ranks of academia, recently appointing the ultra-conservative cleric Abdolhossein Khosrowpanah as secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution—the body responsible for appointing university deans and heads of scholarly academies.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Many colleges and universities have struggled to prepare for generative AI on campus, for instance, by providing guiding policies or pedagogical support. For our LIAISONS program, these activities included: Need #1: Advising university senate committees as they draft campus AI-use policies.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Within UC’s decentralized model, the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services & Information Technology (CECH) built a robust Student Services Center that provides guidance to students via a team of academic advisors, career development specialists, retention program managers, and a licensed counselor and social worker.

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