Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As numerous fellows entered the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College, the Dean of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Division, Dr. Eddie Red, delivered a welcoming message, expressing his aspiration to one day be featured on the wall, as he, like many of us present, is destined for a greater purpose.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can now produce polished, technically competent texts in seconds, challenging our traditional understanding of writing as a uniquely human process of creation, reflection, and learning. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

These developments have thrust some higher education leaders to defend the place the humanities hold in the halls of our most prestigious institutions. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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University Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

This reaction is perfectly in line with studies of how materials, forms, colors, light and textures influence human psychology. In a recent project at the Rochester Institute of Technology, our design team confronted these very questions. Can we embrace the past while accommodating the future of academia?

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

” ChatGPT is a language processing tool that uses AI technology to form conversations that mimic human writing patterns. “As with all new technologies that affect higher education, this moment gives us all an opportunity to reflect on what we know and what we still must learn about AI,” the email says.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Colleges and universities hailing from both sides of the fence are inching ever closer to the middle, integrating lessons in the humanities with STEM-based curriculum—and vice versa. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to a recent survey by Intelligent, 50% of admissions offices are using AI to streamline some of their screening processes, a number that is only expected to grow as the technology for algorithms and machine learning improves. Ryan Motevalli-Oliner, associate dean for enrollment operations at Kenyon, doesn’t see that changing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The prevailing belief is that students should prioritize hard, technical skills essential for thriving in our rapidly evolving information economy—with areas like science, technology, engineering, and business taking precedence over subjects like English or philosophy. This trend is not as counterintuitive as it might seem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Dr. Safa Zaki Zaki is currently dean of the faculty and the John B. A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories. “In Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. She will be the first woman to lead the school. McCoy and John T.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

This February, 39 teams addressed the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI), a technology whose rapid expansion is raising concerns about energy consumption. CU Boulder earned two awards: For the Bees team from the Masters of the Environment program took first place, while the Leeds team, The Green Beans, secured second.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. And some students report earning top marks with the technology.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 10, 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has done away with diversity statements as part of their hiring process. Prospective faculty had historically been asked to submit a statement with their CV describing their experience working with assorted populations and their approach to challenges related to diversity and inclusion efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. The humanities do great things for the way people think, and their ability to empathize and imagine worlds they are not a part of,” said Fleming.

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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. Dr. Vaughn A.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

Dr. Hank Weddington The grant is designed to address science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teacher shortages and create pathways for underrepresented students to become STEM educators, according to Dr. Hank Weddington, dean of the College of Education and Human Services.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. Inside Higher Ed caught up with 11 academics to ask how to harness the potential and avert the risks of this game-changing technology.

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Liaison International

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, for the incredible outcomes they deliver, in a higher education landscape that has grown more complicated with multitudes of technology and data that do not interact with one another, Student Affairs teams are often not equipped with the right tools to identify students in need of support. But we know our campuses are not Neverland.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

Global engagement education technology provider Terra Dotta , announced plans to integrate generative AI into its global engagement platform. And if AI built into a high-touch, human-based advising service, then I’m all for it.” And they said to accomplish this will require a multidisciplinary approach. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Dr. Leonardo Seoane, executive vice president and chief academic officer of Ochsner Health, and first appointed dean of XOCOM. It will take partnerships like Xavier and Ochsner’s, and educational commitment at all levels to improve STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education and providing advanced placement courses.

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HEPI

MAY 8, 2023

However, when the Jisc-Emerge HE edtech board of higher education leaders met recently to discuss the potential and pitfalls of generative AI, instead of a discussion about the assessment arms race, there was real curiosity and enthusiasm to explore the potential of the technology and what it holds for universities and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Pam Carter, vice president and dean of the School of Business, which offers seven undergraduate degree programs and 10 stand-alone certificates. Among the programs are accounting, business administration, health administration and services, finance, human resources, and marketing. in management and leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

She served as dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Sciences at Saint Catherine University in St. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, in Madras, India. Bindhu Alappat Bindhu Alappat has been appointed vice president of academic affairs at Holy Family University. Paul, Minnesota.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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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. Though the machines are not sentient, humans often respond to them with emotion.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished. Chris Metzler continuously illuminated our path toward a more inclusive future in which all voices are welcomed and valued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Shauntae Brown White, professor of mass communication and coordinator of women’s and gender studies as well as Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Social Science and Humanities, was part of the proposal process and the minor’s development.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. Kent Smith, PhD, associate dean and professor, Office of American Indians in Medicine and Science at OSU-CHS and the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He says evolutionary biology is a field with less racial diversity than other science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. At OSU, he researches cooperation in vampire bats, asking important questions that reveal answers about not only bat behavior, but human behavior.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

” “We can expect more expulsions of students and faculty and a more conservative academic curriculum in the coming months,” said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West and vice provost of Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

This process includes the board of trustees, senior administrators, department heads, faculty members, and human resources professionals. Academic leadership: Developing a pipeline of leaders for academic positions, including department chairs, deans, and academic program directors.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University’s highly anticipated Cloud Lab will finally open its doors for student and faculty use in a soft opening in early July, and Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science Rebecca Doerge is on a mission to make one thing clear.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Can artificial intelligence technology help you research content ideas? Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital. A former dean of the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, he has a doctoral degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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