University Business

MAY 14, 2024

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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Helix Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But amidst the noise of online content and digital campaigns, it’s the human touch that truly resonates with prospective students and their families. Seeing facilities, meeting faculty, and getting a feel for the campus vibe help families assess fit and boost confidence in their decisions. How many plan to borrow?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Incorporating four simple practices through collaborative learning communities could be a game changer for teachers willing to embrace a more humane approach to teaching and learning. She was previously department chair where she led a dynamic faculty for six years. For the following 30 years, she was faculty in higher education.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2024

What does mentoring other faculty mean? When our department was challenged with establishing a requested program for all faculty, three P’s were apparent: People, Place, and Purpose. Networking with each other establishes collegiality and camaraderie that strengthens reciprocal relationships among faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 10, 2024

Voluntary faculty and higher education staff turnover, excluding retirements, decreased in 2023–24 after two years of sharp rises, according to the latest survey data from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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.” link] The post Human or AI?

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The Berkeley Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

The post Jelani Nelson uses computer science tools to replicate human thought appeared first on Berkeley News. In addition to his work as a theorist, the Computer Science Division chair has also launched accessible, international coding programs and advocated for high quality public STEM education in California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) in the nation, focusing on tactical autonomy, human-machine teaming, and artificial intelligence through its Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy. For example, Howard hosts one of only fifteen U.S.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. The Bill, an act to add Section 87359.2

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students. Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities: A Comprehensive Overview. National Humanities Alliance. Princeton Review.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American Association of University Professors noted this Thursday alongside its latest salary survey data.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 30, 2025

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. At WCET, we understand the challenges of balancing federal guidelines, institutional priorities, and student needs.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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University Business

JANUARY 15, 2025

Colleges and universities are setting systemwide commitments to transition up to 75% of their dining hall offerings to plant-based options in the next three years, according to a new report from the Humane Society of the United States. Evidence suggests students are willing to pay a premium for such products.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

Having taught students in brick-and-mortar classrooms for most of my 23-year tenure in education, I had grown accustomed to witnessing the positive impact human connection can have on the life trajectory of my community college students. Therefore, we must take intentional steps to humanize our asynchronous online classrooms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs. Dr. George Q.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

A recent survey of more than 300 university leaders affirms many of the concerns expressed in public discourse: the majority of students use generative AI while the majority of faculty do not; cheating has increased while AI detection tools remain unreliable; almost all institutions feel behind progress in some way.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

That’s why our entire team is really excited about the Keynote Speaker for our upcoming Virtual Summit – Elements of Humanizing EdTech in Higher Education , which takes place February 27, 2025 (that’s next week for those of us still taking down Christmas decorations!). Higher education is at a crossroads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2025

Alessandra Lynch, Butler University; Dr. Joshua Bennett Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Teach your students to be human as you teach them everything else. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof. Thomas Kneeland went to college with his mind set on becoming a physician.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards. Cook-Sather, A.,

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? AI offers many potential applications for faculty work.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

The pandemic exacerbated these mental health problems and also made it clear that students are not the only ones experiencing mental illness or mental distress—faculty, staff, and administrators are as well, and vocally so for perhaps the first time.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

The pandemic exacerbated these mental health problems and also made it clear that students are not the only ones experiencing mental illness or mental distress—faculty, staff, and administrators are as well, and vocally so for perhaps the first time.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

This is pushing us to bring faculty from multiple disciplines and multiple colleges together in new ways to equip students for the future. Bringing all that together is really challenging our faculty and our deans to work together in new ways. Finding the third way with AI Traditioned innovation is also helping Jones understand AI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says. She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. in educational leadership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. Title: Associate Professor Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.S Aim for steady progress.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 3, 2024

That’s a highlight from a new report the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), released Thursday. The number of women and people of color on the tenure track has increased over the past seven years, but they still aren’t being promoted at the same rate as white men.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Part of the value of this reminder is to help students recognize that our goal for the course is not limited to academic learning but that we bring our whole selves into the classroom and our way of relating to each other should be a fully human one rather than merely instructional discourse. Faculty Focus. Faculty Focus.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

One way to incorporate human engagement is through a synchronous seminarnothing beats live interaction, where learners and educators can convene for a meaningful exchange. First, students and faculty both felt that spending time in the seminar was most beneficial in helping students gain greater understanding of the material for that unit.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In most humanities courses that involve reflective writing, e-portfolios can be seamlessly integrated into the coursework. The post Using the Power of E-Portfolios to Enhance Student Engagement appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Provide examples that make sure that students stay on task.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Furthermore, instructors in the humanities are well situated for this timely introspection. Because humanities courses ask students to think critically on important issues, it makes sense that we have a duty to remove, or at least adjust, our masks. Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Hopeful signs for a future beyond campus food pantries abound.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The study found that faculty training is prioritized over student training, even though two-thirds (68%) of respondents reported that students use AI more frequently than faculty. Most institutions are motivated to explore AI due to students increasing use (73%) and concerns about misuse (66%).

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