Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While this is not a program specific to Native Americans, the state’s four tribal colleges are eligible institutions along with Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and all University of Minnesota campuses. Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education. Dr. Gresham D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Higher Ed Data Stories

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

But the question--Why is there a University of North Carolina and a North Carolina State University--is a good one. This question might be asked of several of the states, all indicated on the map above; these are the states with both a flagship university and a land grant university. At least by my definition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When the students arrive at their postsecondary institutions, the higher education community conveniently neglects its responsibility to address the deliberate omission, even though curricular content at the lower levels is essentially determined by university officials.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. All things being equal, one could assume the Bill will receive Royal Assent at some point this spring.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In part one of this four-part blog, I explored the definitions of what the Metaverse might be. These include 3D visualisations of the human body for medical purposes, and of engineering and architectural designs that aid a deeper understanding of structure. There is no doubt that the human brain is clever.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Image: When humans write, they leave subtle signatures that hint at the prose’s fleshy, brainy origins. Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Among them are Harvard; Stanford; the University of Michigan; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes. Dr. Ioana G.

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The PIE News

MAY 7, 2024

What is the role of a UK university agent? In late 2022, I moved from being UK university staff to start up my own small agency. But the process of building my agency has taught me a lot and my perspectives have definitely shifted. The role of an agent is certainly changing too. So, where does this leave us?

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 2, 2023

Thank you to Kristen Betts, Clinical Professor at Drexel University, and Karyn Holt, Vice President of Institutional Partnerships & Research at INTERACT123, for the resources and innovative way to consider the learning process, especially regulations regarding that process, and how we can ensure the best learning opportunities for our students.

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ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Benjamin Dueck is a General Librarian in the Arts & Humanities Division at The University of Manitoba Libraries. Earlier this month, I began working as a full-time Humanities Liaison Librarian at the University of Manitoba. Quantification & the neoliberal university. Figure 1: Informational holism.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. “I’m not sure if any program is doing that, but it’s definitely not what we’re doing.”

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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ACRLog

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Throughout this academic year I’m participating in a leadership institute at my university. I’m part of a cohort of nine colleagues, from across the university and in various leadership roles. They developed four frames for understanding leaders: structural leaders, human resources leaders, political leaders, and symbolic leaders.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Daily, the student newspaper at Ball State University in Indiana, ran an article recently with this headline: Best Way to Remove AI Plagiarism from Text: Bypass AI Detectors So, that’s pretty bad. Then, “it should be converted to human-like content.” Trying to humanize AI content with cheap Humanizer tools leads to AI plagiarism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brown, director of academic integrity at The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (CSU). Calhoun, assistant vice president and dean of the Center for Academic Success at Seton Hall University, agrees. “As Many faculty have found ways to mix AI with human-driven writing solutions, marrying the two skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A 2022 Gallup poll found that educators reported the highest level of burnout of any industry , and 35% of college and university workers reported “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work. University workers have adjusted their practices and accepted extra responsibilities. They’re worn down. Dr. Margaret W.

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MindMax

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Schools using chatbots to assist enrollment management teams must determine where in the process the AI ends and a human takes over. One interesting and specific solution came from the session I facilitated with colleagues from Oregon State University and Stanford Online. Data is predictive—not definitive.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Take, for example, this definition by Cunningham and Lischeron from 1991: Entrepreneurial leadership involves setting clear goals, creating opportunities, empowering people, preserving organisational intimacy, and developing a human resource system. Fast-forward to 2019, and the focus for Lee et al.

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HEPI

MAY 2, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Andy Salmon – Pro-Vice Chancellor External, Bath Spa University ‘The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.’ Above all, how might it deliver the depths our unpredicted human understanding that is the core of Surrealism and beyond GPT-4? But there it is.’

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University Business

JUNE 22, 2023

It may have come off as harsh for colleges, universities and entire state systems banning the popular TikTok social media app. ” said lead author Ella Faulhaber, a doctoral student in human-computer interaction at Iowa State University, according to UPI.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, said the Ph.D. ” The “sharp drop" in humanities also stands out, Townsend said. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s Letters: 1,389 to 1,192.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

While the biggest problems are directly impacting only a tiny number of colleges and universities, the effects are widespread because, to the public and the politicians, all 4,000+ institutions are part of the same band. And right now, that is what too many are experiencing when they interact with colleges and universities. Definitely.

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University Business

MAY 9, 2023

The University of New Mexico discovered yesterday that across the state’s college and university system, 60% or more of its students suffered basic needs insecurity, such as food and housing. Behind these numbers is real human suffering. Prices jumped 6.3% It’s not shaping up to be any better for 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Dr. D-L Stewart, professor and chair of the higher education department at the University of Denver. Institutions more broadly need to support these [counseling and LGBTQ+] centers with greater funding, fiscal and human resources to expand their programming,” said Stewart. Two full-time staff can only do so much.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

The group of scholars recently published an article in the journal Educational Researcher outlining the complexities of MSI classifications and proposing clearer definitions, and they created a new database using those standards in hopes of providing a more accurate picture of the MSI landscape.

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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. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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HEPI

MARCH 22, 2023

Rachel was formerly Head of Learning and Teaching Development: Policy and Practice at the University of Northampton and can be contacted at: [link] and @DrRachLTB ). The strategic and planned use of student engagement data can definitely help when it comes to providing an evidence-informed answer to the question ‘what works?’

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

The definition of AI has changed over time, but put simply it is “a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation”. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. What is artificial intelligence?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As Pauline Lipman powerfully states in the book referenced above regarding school segregation: “It breaks a web of human connections in which the social and cultural practices of daily life are rooted, race and class identities are formed, and community is constituted.” as multiracial institutions. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Just three months later, ChatGPT made artificial intelligence a popular reality, and the very definition of knowledge work, and how much of it humans will continue to do, is very much in question. These recent developments in AI have the potential to displace humans from whole categories of knowledge work.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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