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The Future of Equitable AI in Higher Education

Insight Into Diversity

Additionally, biased datasets in AI systems may reinforce negative stereotypes or lead to inequitable distribution of academic support, such as tutoring or mentorship programs, disproportionately affecting students of color and those from disadvantaged communities.

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The Dark Legacy of Elite University Medical Centers

Higher Education Inquirer

Yet, the complex interplay between race and class means that many poor or economically disadvantaged individuals, regardless of race, have also faced neglect and exploitation within these prestigious medical institutions.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, mentions the bachelor’s degree in health services management, which began in fall 2019 in response to career interests of students in the health sciences and biological sciences. It includes an internship at a healthcare facility. Elimelda Ongeri, dean of the John R. and Kathy R.

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How to Combat the High Schoolization of the University

Inside Higher Ed

And isn’t it true that questioning can become performative, grading arbitrary and responses glib and facile? Here, I must firmly disagree. I believe that instructors have an obligation to measure the effectiveness of our teaching and to do a far more serious job of evaluating what our students are learning. Yes and yes and yes.

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Wealth and Want

Higher Education Inquirer

This report examines the chasm between the wealthiest university endowments and underfunded tribal colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and community colleges and how this leads to unnecessary human suffering. This historical disadvantage has continued to shape the institutions' funding and resources.

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Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. The great American demographic shift was a second major development with vast repercussions for higher education. Disputes over the book’s methodology and findings proved irrelevant.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

Me : Just visit a medical school and you’ll be amazed by how extensively these professional schools already make use of simulations including virtual cadavers, hearts, and brains as well as surgery simulators -- leaving those plastic toy human anatomy kits that children have played with in the dust.

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