Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The new year may bring a host of virtual assistants and administrative staff to higher education. They will begin as assistants to humans, then over time they will evolve into autonomous AI staff members. The winds of change in our field are rapidly converging, as we discussed in the previous edition of “Online: Trending Now.”

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As technology permeates every aspect of life on campus, efficiency and convenience may come at the cost of human connection and professional identity.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As AI (artificial intelligence) continues to reshape industries, Complete College America (CCA) launched its Council on Equitable AI in 2024, a significant move that addresses systemic inequities in higher education. This initiative highlights AI’s growing role in educational settings and its potential to advance student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website. Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One option is to recast the system as students investing in their education through an advance of their anticipated higher pay. To redress that, in this piece I sketch out such a model for changing how we fund higher education for students. Bolder changes might now be worth the risk. They are not encouraging.

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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. As former provost, Fleming spoke at length about how tuition is the grease that spins the wheels of higher education. Dr. Nicholas B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. of humanities degrees earned by Black students and 3.8% In 2022, HBCUs awarded 8.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-Authored Abstracts More Authentic Than Human-Written Ones sara.custer@in Fri, 12/20/2024 - 03:00 AM Higher ratings for AI-authored abstracts should not obscure the need for engaging prose with a human touch, says study co-author. Byline(s) Jack Grove for Times Higher Education

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Jamie Merisotis That progress tends to get lost, however, amid legitimate concerns about the cost of education and its efficacy in preparing students for jobs. We get it: Higher education must do better. It’s that we must develop our very human capacities for learning and growth. We simply must commit to use them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Jamie Merisotis The Lumina Foundation announced a new goal to increase the number of Americans with education and training to 75%. Seventeen years later, the percentage of adults 25 to 64 who have achieved education attainment after high school has increased from 38% to 55%. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2024

New Global Alliance to ‘Raise Profile’ of Humanities sara.custer@in… Fri, 10/18/2024 - 03:00 AM Institutions on six continents plan to fight back against the creeping denigration of the social sciences. Byline(s) John Ross for Times Higher Education

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SRHE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

by Maria-Ligia Barbosa In Latin America, higher education has undergone intense transformation. In Argentina and Uruguay, the demand for higher education was met by the public sector. However, there are relevant differences in dimensions such as governance, size, selectivity and educational offer.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

AI is not a mere accessory to the academic toolkit; it represents a fundamental transformation of the educational paradigm. Too much of our current higher education system is still predicated on memorisation, a relic of a pre-digital era.

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MindMax

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post is the first in a series about AI and its impact on higher education. For future posts, I’ll speak with higher education leaders, corporate executives, and marketing professionals to get their expert insights and predictions. A few of my most interesting observations have occurred in my personal life.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

In our quest for anti-racist academic organizations from preschool to higher education, we have urged educators to develop competencies - dispositions, knowledge, and skills - to put philosophy into practice. Figure 2 is our modification or application of the 12 criteria to educational settings P-12 and higher education.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. Yet throughout the election, the Labour Party like the previous government held back from making higher education a priority issue — too difficult, too many other priorities. Who would bet against at least a few ‘unknown unknowns’.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students. Applied work gives them ready practice in how their education specifically connects to various aspects of potential future professional work.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 17, 2025

The higher education sector across EMEA has weathered much change in recent times and is still navigating a period of transformation. It is now used more and more in universities but educators concerns about the potential for cheating remain. What is your higher education digital strategy in 2025?

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HEPI

MARCH 9, 2025

The higher education sector places the highest importance on creating, collecting, and applying knowledge. It was suggested that these are distinctly human skills: relationship building, in-person communication, and leadership. We spent much of the evening discussing a potential pivot for teaching and learning in the sector.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The connection between faculty concerns about students using these AI tools to cheat and the content of “Digital Nexus in Higher Education” is rooted in how educational technology is changing and its effect on academic honesty and integrity. What AI is not Artificial Intelligence is not a human person.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

McMickens, Morris Thomas, and Calvin Hadley There is deep concern about the status of Black men in higher education. A recent report about the enrollment of Black men in postsecondary education indicates that Black men comprise 4.6% Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Tryan L. or a little over 850,000 of the 18.6

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. This approach suggests the value of a similar comparison: to identify terminology that is uniquely human; that is, terms that are largely absent from material that are produced by AI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Western Iowa Tech Community College has agreed to settle two years-long federal lawsuits alleging the school conspired with others to engage in human trafficking. And, to those students, I would say, ‘We wish you luck and hope you are able to pursue your education and career goals.”’ million as accepted by its board.

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Leaders in education, business, government, and philanthropy (plus 100 students!) You might be wondering why someone like me, whose company focuses on higher education marketing and enrollment , would attend a K-12 conference. MindMax shares this focus on creating pathways , in the context of continuing education and higher ed.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Here at WCET, our focus is on educational technology and digital learning. The most advanced digital learning tool holds little value if our students are unable to use it effectively or if our educators aren’t sure how to use it in a classroom setting. Higher education is at a crossroads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP) at the University of Utah is admitting its first cohort of fifteen degree-seeking students incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility. It is never a given that academic research will translate directly and impactfully to the transformation of our local communities,” said Laanan.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Breaking over the holidays, news of a probe by India’s financial law enforcement agency into an alleged human trafficking scheme apparently using study visas to help individuals gain entry into Canada and then illegally spiriting them over the border into the US rocked the sector.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students. Applied work gives them ready practice in how their education specifically connects to various aspects of potential future professional work.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Liaison International

JANUARY 31, 2025

As higher education institutions face shrinking pools of applicants and increased competition, the ability to deliver targeted, meaningful engagement is more critical than ever. However, the key lies in leveraging AI to augment human effort, not replace it. Over-reliance on AI-generated text can harm visibility and credibility.

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MindMax

AUGUST 23, 2023

To what extent will artificial intelligence (AI) replace human workers? I certainly don’t have the answer, but I can say one thing with confidence: Even if (or when) robots take over tasks historically assigned to people, they won’t replace the soft skills that are uniquely human.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. This is different from generic applications where chatbots may only handle customer service inquiries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Francis Poussaint, whose tireless advocacy for diversity in medical education transformed Harvard Medical School and influenced generations of physicians from underrepresented backgrounds, died late last week. The Harlem-born psychiatrist was no stranger to the pages of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

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