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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The event offered pro-bono legal consultations and support from community organizations providing social services, health care, financial services, and employment. On an unseasonably warm November weekend, people gathered on campus for a record clearing and expungement clinic organized by the Community College of Philadelphia Foundation.

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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In recent years, higher education institutions have faced increasing pressure to prioritize disciplines with clear career pathways over traditional liberal arts programs, according to a new report from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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AI and Student Recruitment: Bridging Technology and Human Connection 

Liaison International

However, the key lies in leveraging AI to augment human effort, not replace it. Campaign personalization | AI suggests tailored outreach strategies, such as sending event invitations to students interested in specific programs or nudging inactive prospects with relevant content.

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Navigating Accessibility and Humanizing EdTech: Upcoming WCET Events You Won’t Want to Miss

WCET Frontiers

Thats why were excited to offer three timely events to help higher education leaders navigate these evolving requirements and explore strategies to humanize educational technology. Our goal with all WCET events is to provide essential guidance and a safe space for collaborative learning.

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

Not great, but the authors note that this is just a start and the direction is promising: Most of the new and correct ‘Celebrity’ tags created by the AI platform were of crew members on set and political figures at events — people that the librarians would not normally tag in the ‘Keywords’ field. She was not tagged by the AI platform.

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Forging a Bond: Black and Jewish Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and Robert Kraft’s Foundation brought a diverse group of Black and Jewish students, faculty and administrators together for a series of Unity Dinners across the nation. The dinners - which kicked off at the National Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta before moving to George Washington University in D.C.

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Going from Family Engagement to Family Partnerships With Black Marginalized Families

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They, for the most part, participated in school events and made sure that I prioritized my education. By this time, I was 13 years into teaching, and too often my schedule would conflict with my son’s school events. We would argue that the aforementioned are obligatory events that the school must host.

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