The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions
Insight Into Diversity
JANUARY 3, 2024
One common use for AI is automating an applicant’s preliminary screening using the data from documents like transcripts and SAT or ACT scores.
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West Virginia U proposal outlines process for firing faculty
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The draft document urges credit for faculty members supporting the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion mission, or who are otherwise doing community-engaged or interdisciplinary work; this presumably addresses long-standing concerns across academe that such efforts go unrecognized in traditional faculty reward structures.
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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 10, 2023
Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”
3 Questions for a Retired Academic Librarian
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 29, 2023
A: The academic library is, at its core, about making scholarship available to students and faculty and preserving it for future generations. The transition of scholarship from print to the digital network is fundamental and it will change many things in the academy beyond libraries. It is a revolution and it is only the beginning.
Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 18, 2023
Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.
Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 10, 2023
A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. These data should document the progress—and lack thereof—in creating a more diverse faculty. Yet, at most U.S.
SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World
Insight Into Diversity
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.
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