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.” He made an introduction, which led to her giving a seminar at Bell Labs that turned into a colloquium, which was attended by all the scientists from the research area at Bell Labs. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Epistemology is something which academics in social science and humanities think and write a lot about – usually whole chapters in an 80,000-word thesis, and a field of study in its own right. In my own work, in particularly teaching, I have been working in interdisciplinary ways with Engineers, Computer and Data Scientists and Physicists.

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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 8, 2023

Put the words “universities are” into Google, Haski-Leventhal observes, and the search engine’s AI-powered auto-complete feature types in “dying,” “scams,” and “irrelevant in the digital age.” Input from the humanities is essential.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

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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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Spaces aren’t (in most cases) designed by the educators teaching in them, but looking at the formal learning setting (lab, lecture theatre, seminar room, etc) through a critical lens can help educators begin to think about what they might want to achieve in that space. Sometimes in deep conversation and some shy and yet eager to belong.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. A decade or so later, my students use various search engines to solicit the same information that I did a decade prior. It is a text predictor based upon a subset of data found on the internet.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. A decade or so later, my students use various search engines to solicit the same information that I did a decade prior. It is a text predictor based upon a subset of data found on the internet.

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

Mark Portelli, Release Engineering Manager at Cengage “I was an Electrical Engineering major and studied mostly Science and Math. Using active, socially engaged approaches we examined topics such as resilience and stress, social image, healthy eating, social activism, substance use, healthy relationships, and human sexuality.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

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