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University at Buffalo expands cutting-edge facilities to meet the needs of students, researchers and society

The PIE News

Backed by a $400 million investment, it will fund a new AI supercomputing facility at UB, placing the university at the forefront of AI innovation. UB’s new supercomputing facility for Empire AI represents a monumental leap in research capabilities. Building on UB’s supercomputing center, launched in 1999 with a $1.3

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How COVID spurred online education innovation and empathy

Inside Higher Ed

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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AI: A Brilliant but Biased Tool for Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those assignments acknowledge the usefulness and the limitation of the technology, which cannot detect or differentiate human bias and negative stereotypes in the almost limitless field of data and information from which it pulls its answers. Provost Dr. Janice L. But Brown still has his concerns, especially regarding learning.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Feroe, former acting president and interim provost, was named interim president. The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” Manhattanville also opened a Center for Design Thinking in 2019, in what had long been the president’s cottage. Geisler last summer. Focus on the Future.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

The first phase is probably developing co-branded curriculum, facilities so that industry can share their problems, and maybe we get some industry or government officials to teach, and then we create those bridge modules. Adding the Human Element. Brian Blake was appointed President of Georgia State University in June 2021.

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When the presenting problem isn’t the problem: The ‘vital signs’ of organisational health

HEPI

The role of the Vice Chancellor is significantly different, wider, and deeper in span from that of Provost or Deputy VC. Human resources professionals utilise a variety of employee relations data collected through surveys of organisations conducted locally and by specialists with global coverage such as XpertHR.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,