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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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Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In: Changing Higher Ed podcast 257 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Andrew Hsu

The Change Leader, Inc.

Investments in modernized residential halls , expanded research capacity, updated academic facilities, and new doctoral programs have positioned the college to meet this goal while honoring its historical character. Which I dunno if it is helpful or hurtful, because, I think it’s not just faculty human by human nature dislike changes.

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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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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. So today there’s been collaborations targeted on a wide variety of areas of interest, human performance. Brent Miller: Sure.

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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.