Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. They also participated in networks dedicated to Black professionals in their discipline, such as the National Society of Black Engineers.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

PURE Inspiration The momentum behind the (dis)Ability Design Studio comes from collaboration on the wheelchair of the future between McDonagh, Bleakney, and other researchers in the Human Performance and Mobility Maker Lab (HPML). This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. To humanize online learning, Pacansky-Brock notes, the professor-student relationship should “shift from one of impersonal professionalism toward relational authority. “That’s just as true in a physical classroom as it is online.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Now, the team has introduced a neural network—an AI algorithm inspired by the brain’s structure and function—that solves college-level math problems at a human level in seconds, according to their Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published last month.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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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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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. In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Hopkins engineers very closed and stage-managed town halls and does not execute any changes based on these town halls.” She also said the MOU was published as early as possible. “This process has been going on for years,” Dr. Berger said. ” Branville Bard Jr., Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

On Open Badges alone—a leading format for verifiable, portable digital badges—learners can choose from more than 500,000 verifiable, sharable digital credentials, according to a 1EdTech and Credential Engine report. “What can you use to change that kind of behavior meaningfully and offer a different way to hire?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Then, a day later, and in an apparent effort not to be left out of the AI–chat bot party, Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing search engine. That is, the bots’ underlying technology—large language models—is intended to mimic human behavior. The company’s stock sank after a series of product missteps.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.” Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” “That forced me to think about what I was doing,” she said. “I I felt it was important to try to make a difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Agbomi’s interest areas involve tissue engineering, which will be her research for graduate school. “I We’re creating an environment that acts like the human brain.” She looks forward to learning more about the human brain and giving back to the communities that have helped her.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Now, 40 to 50 percent of the students at NUS’s two interdisciplinary colleges—the College of Humanities and Sciences and the College of Design and Engineering—are declaring more than one major. In previous years, fewer than 15 percent of students chose to pursue two majors. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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ACRLog

JULY 21, 2023

I also find myself concerned with articles that are mostly AI-generated, with maybe a paragraph or two from the human author. Its suggestions now included Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Healthcare, Law, and Creative Arts. Given that, we need to be vigilant about the danger of anthropomorphizing.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“Honestly, this happens so frequently now that my first reaction was, ‘You don’t need to disclose anything to me that will make you feel uncomfortable,’” said Mozafari, who teaches engineering communication at Cornell’s College of Engineering. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Some ed-tech products undermine educational objectives, says Raj Reddy, professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, who won the Turing Award for pioneering work in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. “In fact, we should promote copying. That makes teaching computer science challenging.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Long administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Ford fellowships have helped some 6,000 scholars attend graduate school, complete their dissertations and do research upon earning their doctorates. A one-year senior fellowship is available for faculty members who were previously Ford fellows.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered. Is it to offer insights into the human condition?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

Respondents reported job titles including senior manager, senior director, CEO, executive vice president and human resources manager or director. The employer respondents laid bare their desire to engage with colleges on curriculum design for these non-credit-bearing offerings. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Photo courtesy UArizona CSF) This expansion fits well within the project’s goal of building both human and ecological diversity, says Jill Williams, PhD, the director of WISE. “We Photo courtesy UArizona CSF. We want to foster more diverse and inclusive environmental science communities,” she says.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

“I don’t think that the [Louisiana] authorities or schools are trying to hide something,” said Alexandru Bardas, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas who researches cybersecurity. That may be because the incident was not a cyberattack, according to some experts.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. “We use bots in serving our students,” Reshef said, adding that this frees human professors to do work that is better suited to human minds. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine. ’ 10,000 times. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Megan Frary is a senior educational development consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University and also clinical associate professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State. ” CONTACT Magazine Spring: 5-13. London: Routledge. Leon-Henri, Dana Di Pardo.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Our professional backgrounds are distinct; we represent faculty and senior administrators trained in medicine, science and engineering, the arts, social sciences, humanities, and education. Our work is grounded in scholarship, the importance of building and expanding partnerships, and a deep understanding of institutional priorities.

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College Marketing Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For the first time, a social media platform is competing with Google for the top-used search engine. TikTok now rivals Google as the most used internet search engine, despite not classifying itself as such a tool. Her work is featured in Brooklyn magazine, Milky Magazine, Teachers & Writers Magazine and more.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Megan Frary is a senior educational development consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University and also clinical associate professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State. ” CONTACT Magazine Spring: 5-13. London: Routledge. Leon-Henri, Dana Di Pardo.

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eLiterate

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The OpenAI engineers will crack it just as they are now pretty good at preventing ChatGPT from making stock predictions or answering questions about current events when its data set hasn’t been updated since 2021. Or magazine articles? Don’t get me wrong; the math problem will be solved. That work is already happening.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

12 ), filmmaker Byron Hurt explores the abusive—even deadly—rituals of hazing culture and how they reflect the powerful human desire to belong. Image: In his new documentary Hazing ( Independent Lens and PBS, premieres Sept. Hurt spoke with Inside Higher Ed via Zoom. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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