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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

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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The Evolution of the Humanities

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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Engineering majors earn top salaries for grads—with a caveat

University Business

AI and its related fields are forecasted as the academic programs of tomorrow , and the University of South Florida and Vanderbilt University have already begun to build on this by introducing new colleges. According to CNBC, engineering majors accounted for nine out of the 15 highest-paying majors five years after graduation.

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

Faculty Focus

million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” Gibbs (2023) conducted a review involving 1.2

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Humane Ingenuity 43: Your Own Personal Paul McCartney

Dan Cohen

I also happen to love this passage from Rollo May’s book, which is incredibly relevant to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter. Joel Willick, an engineering student at Northeastern University, has created a delightful robot named Bob ROS , an excellent play on the late, great Bob Ross of PBS’s cult hit “The Joy of Painting.”