Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a significant conversation at every educational conference in the past two years throughout my usual treks to teacher education events. To the delight of some, and the horror of some, AI was at the forefront of educators’ minds in 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Dynamic innovation and leadership is happening all over the continent, in public health, climate and sustainability, history and culture and urban development; there’s much for American students to learn. Through a service-learning summer program in Ghana, I gained knowledge about West African history, culture and sustainable design.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Success requires leaders to learn how to say no. Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. It collects, analyzes, and reports comprehensive performance data.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

In 2023, WCET will look at Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide support and resources to help you break through the rhetoric and understand both the promises and perils of AI in higher education. To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Even though higher education has its own hazing rituals and rites of passage, it doesn’t impose tests of character. I raise these examples to prompt a bigger issue: Are there things that higher education should do but can’t or won’t? We can dismiss flawed graduates as a handful of bad apples.

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The PIE News

MAY 16, 2023

The ship is the floating campus of Semester at Sea of the Institute of Shipboard Education, where, each semester , over 500 students spend four months abroad in nearly a dozen countries. Semester at Sea has a storied history that began with its maiden voyage in 1963. It’s one of the best educational things I have ever done in my life.”

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