Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. We’ve got that unique Native and non-Native environment.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

During my own medical training, hands-on high-fidelity simulation was invaluable for practising procedures and emergency scenarios in a safe and controlled environment. Deep medicine: how artificial intelligence can make healthcare human again Book, 2019 This is a provocative and optimistic exploration of AIs role in transforming healthcare.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., This system allowed users to interact with a virtual environment projected on a display. AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Net price after aid is $26,834 Curricula Wabash offers a diverse array of academic programs across three divisions: Natural Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Social Sciences. ” Continuity of Leadership Wabash has a history of stable and effective leadership, providing consistent direction and long-term strategic planning.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 1, 2025

The overwhelming majority of faculty members, especially in the humanities and social sciences, lean left politically, and university campuses have often been hotbeds of progressive activism. The decline of the humanities and social sciences has been a major casualty of this trend. status as a democratic superpower.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A Response to Growing Challenges The current political environment has created an atmosphere in which DEI spending on personnel, programs, and initiatives are increasingly targeted by state governments and governing boards. The post A Long History of Recognizing Inclusive Excellence appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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eLiterate

APRIL 10, 2025

Exploring the less-discussed aspects of how AI works and its implications for human interaction sounds fascinating. I don’t inherently “know” why an apple and a bicycle are different in the way a human does (one grows on trees and is edible, the other is a manufactured mode of transport).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

From providing a lifelike virtual environment to helping students visualize complex scientific concepts, AR can revolutionize the way faculty teach (López-Belmonte et al., This system allowed users to interact with a virtual environment projected on a display. AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 13, 2025

In recent years, books like Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington have illuminated the history of medical abuse, but they also serve as a reminder that inequality in healthcare goes far beyond race and touches upon the economic and social circumstances of individuals.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

in 20th-century US history with an emphasis on civil rights from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors in history from Southwestern University. Some highlights include: A Virtual Member-only Summit on Humanizing AI that delves into how artificial intelligence can be integrated responsibly. He earned a Masters and Ph.D.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Combining AI-driven insights with human empathy ensures ethical, accurate, and meaningful interactions that foster trust and improve the community college student experience. Balancing AI With Human Interaction As powerful as these AI tools for student engagement and personalization are, the human element remains vital.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For Black people to flourish and thrive, they need an environment that supports their holistic growth. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. However, to be holistically successful by flourishing, a person needs the right environment (i.e.,

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. The good news is that research points us to several aspects of inclusive and supportive classroom environments that positively impact belongingness.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Few words carry as much interpretive weight as “agency.”

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

Across the country, arts and humanities programs are being axed in a misguided attempt to balance public university budgets. From New York and North Carolina to North Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin, we are seeing academic departments, degrees and faculty reduced or eliminated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These future collegiate athletes, and their families, will be informed in no uncertain terms that the institutions represented by the coaches offer welcoming and supportive environments to facilitate their development and meet their needs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away. Telling them that the future human condition will be fundamentally worse than the present is hyperbole.​ Teach social change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. There is so much talent and human potential, I figure in 2023 it should be commonplace. Melissa Gilliam Boston University Photography Gilliam, 58, is no stranger to firsts. And it just isn’t.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Some parts of history have been suppressed in many states, books banned, curriculum and conversations disappeared, and even research agendas are on hold or downright outlawed and controlled. So how does such a living environment support young people and ultimately impact the future of America? But we are still not all convinced.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Liberal arts colleges provide an intimate learning environment, where class sizes are small and students benefit from meaningful engagement with their professors and a social environment that encourages both close social bonds and peer-to-peer learning opportunities. Since then, we have become regular supporters of the college.

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HEPI

JANUARY 9, 2023

For a city that was once the richest in the UK and the second richest in Europe, and which had seen settlement by different people since pre-Roman times, Leicester has a history that is as economically rich as it is ethnically diverse. It continues to flourish, promoting social justice and transforming lives.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 23, 2022

For history, that subject matter is, of course, the past; the discipline’s terminology includes words like “chronology,” “historiography” and “periodization.” ” The discipline’s distinctive ways of thinking include these: Everything has a history. Nothing is static. Path dependence.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

With about 2,000 undergraduates, Davidson remains committed to developing humane instincts and disciplined, creative minds through a personalized liberal arts education steeped in tradition, yet responsive to the challenges of a changing world. Signature programs include the Center for Civic Engagement and Humanities Seminars.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Somewhat similarly, a recent PBS documentary, Ruthless: The Secret History of Monopoly , shows how a game that originally “ meant to critique capitalism came to embody it.” McCall asks history instructors to embrace video games because they provide an opportunity to discuss and debate the game version of history.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Catherine Mason, an expert in this field, has delved into the history of this evolution, focusing on a central question: Will machines amplify or supersede the artist? Pioneers of the Computer-Art Movement Among the pioneers was Gordon Pask, known for his interactive artworks that explored the human-machine relationship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Summarily, such DEI inquiry should help detect demonstrated achievement at transferring knowledge, engaging in advocacy, and impacting relevant change in human behavior across diverse groups. The article states that “faculty and students have to judge us by our actions” regarding support to their person and environment.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Imagine a history course where students interact with AI-based chatbots posing as historical figures or a literature course where AI-generated scenarios allow students to delve deeper into a novel’s context. Questions of data privacy, technical requirements, and the potential loss of the human touch in education often surface.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Creative nonfiction is manifest especially vividly in The New York Times ’s popular Modern Love column – with its raw, revealing, often wrenching narratives that illustrate the “complicated workings of the human heart.” A humanities classroom shouldn’t be a safe space – even for the instructor.

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The PIE News

JULY 13, 2023

Western Sydney University has a long and proud history of opening up access to higher education for students who have the drive, ambition and dedication to succeed. Establishing a significant long-term presence in Indonesia is an exciting new chapter in that history,” said Jennifer Westacott, chancellor, Western Sydney University.

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Today's Learner

JANUARY 14, 2025

While todays scholars rightly emphasize global connections and diversity to combat historical biases and colonialist (imperialist) mindsets, the centrality of Western Civilization as a foundational model for human development cannot be overstated. As students dive into this diverse narrative, they will be met by the contradictions of history.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. Mason’s longstanding commitment to inclusive excellence fosters an environment where diverse perspectives are welcome and nurtured to thrive. It is the first college in Virginia to focus primarily on public health.

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