Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

CIOs and their network support engineers constantly have to find creative ways to improve their network configurations to support the ever-growing number of devices on campus. However, human knowledge and expertise have a limit and cannot adapt to the real-time network needs of a campus.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 6, 2024

million settlement to resolve a class action gender equity lawsuit, marking a significant step toward addressing pay disparities among its faculty. The settlement will provide back pay to 386 female faculty members and implement ongoing measures to ensure pay equity. The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) has reached a $4.5

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 15, 2023

Innovations in Engineering Education and Practice: The Engineering New Zealand Perspective editor Mon, 05/15/2023 - 06:37 The field of engineering is constantly evolving, and staying up-to-date with the latest innovations is critical for success.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The more you humanize your institution, the stronger the connection youll create with your audience. Highlighting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives on your campus can help students see themselves as part of your community. Platforms like YouTube and TikTok are now major search engines for younger audiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

in Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; PhD. University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. But it faces a shortage of workers with the necessary technical qualifications—in part because the field is so new and in part because it is highly interdisciplinary, combining biology, chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

As most recent Board Chair of the LEAD Fund (The Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access, and Diversity), Metzler exemplified dedication to inclusive excellence. ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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eLiterate

APRIL 23, 2023

” “ChatGPT will make thinking and humans obsolete.” “By replacing debt with equity capital from Apollo Funds, we are meaningfully reducing outstanding debt giving us optionality to invest in our portfolio of growing businesses.” If you want a better version of a search engine, use Microsoft Bing Chat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. The result has been more leaders across the university better prepared to strengthen equity and inclusion in challenging times.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through its Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) and as part of its larger commitment to sustainability, equity, and climate action, the University of Arizona (UArizona) has supported dozens of projects over the past two years that promote environmentalism and help address disparities in sustainability efforts. Photo courtesy UArizona CSF.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Equity Seeing so many African American undergraduate and graduate students excelling in STEM fields is inspiring to Smith-Jackson. We graduate the very highest number of Black engineers, Black women engineers, Black agriculturists,” says Smith-Jackson. We have faculty from outside the College of Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Unlike the gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that have catalyzed highly visible and widespread efforts to increase gender parity, the vast underrepresentation of women in economics has received relatively little attention. The field of economics has a problem with women. one that has earned the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

As John Warner has explained in Slate , this “crisis” of peer review is linked to a much bigger one—namely, the ever-deepening crisis in the humanities and higher education more broadly. We knew the engine of peer review needed a tune-up.

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2025

Workshops encouraging reflective practices help students integrate personality in applications, with feedback reinforcing human input. A student preparing for an engineering placement might use ChatGPT to generate technical and behavioural questions, refining responses through iterative feedback. Levelling the Playing Field?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Lehman, we have the platform and the resources to partner with schools and communities in the Bronx to be a social and economic engine — that is what helps us become intentionally an HSI and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI),” says Delgado. “We We are around 83% students of color. asks Delgado.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. How can they promote equity and access? Draw attention to the virtues of human-written prose and prompt students to reflect on how their own cognitive processes surpass AI.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games. engineering schools, and it provided 18 examples that closely match U.S. I asked ChatGPT to identify the top U.S.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They started with prompt engineering. You can’t answer these questions confidently without the help of actual humans who would be using the product. At any rate, Khan Academy realized their early prompt engineering attempts had several shortcomings. Well-written prompts are miracles. They’re like magic spells.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Moreover, workplace well-being initiatives often reside in human resources organizations, while faculty often do not consider themselves employees, thereby not knowing about or taking advantage of HR offerings that might support well-being and overall wellness.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Moreover, workplace well-being initiatives often reside in human resources organizations, while faculty often do not consider themselves employees, thereby not knowing about or taking advantage of HR offerings that might support well-being and overall wellness.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

More from UB: How 2 college equity leaders advise navigating a changing climate amid backlash International applications and enrollment China and India remain as the two most significant countries whose students are applying for U.S. Since fall 2018, doctoral program enrollment among international students has increased by 9.7%.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. ” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

But bigger issues—digital literacy, pedagogical practices, equity—are also at play. Much research has humans program machines to behave in a clever way, like playing chess, but, today, we emphasize machines that can learn, at least somewhat like human beings do.”. Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Their engineers are working on a watermarking process to label generated text in order to curb intentional misuse, like academic cheating. What we should instead focus on is teaching our students data literacy so that they can use this technology to engage human creativity and thought. " I know you’re freaking out.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They write: In our study, since AI proved surprisingly capable, it was difficult to design a task in this experiment outside the AI’s frontier where humans with high human capital doing their job would consistently outperform AI. The Harvard paper gives us a clue that has implications for how we approach teaching AI literacy.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

New York City is addressing equity and climate change goals by training low-income workers to service modern electrical systems like heat pumps and electric vehicle charging stations. He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Mr. Clark wants to go back to school to become an engineer. Here’s one solution.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To be clear, no one is declaring victory for diversity and equity in higher education—not in the United States, not around the world. I know that the foundation is very devoted to equity and diversity and balancing injustice in this country. We understand and respect that some may disagree with our judgment.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

For institutions, affordability concerns can lead to declining enrollment, particularly among first-generation and underserved students, further exacerbating equity gaps in education. High levels of student debt impact graduates’ ability to buy homes, start businesses, or save for retirement.

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