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5 Ways To Implement AI Effectively Into Faculty Work

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Much of the attention given to artificial intelligence in higher education has focused on preventing students from using such tools to cheat, but AI experts say the technology also offers valuable potential for assisting faculty in both teaching and research.

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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, brings considerable scholarly credentials to the position. The fellowship program will also be available to Howard's faculty members. Howard's Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Anthony K. Dr. Ibram X.

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Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation

Inside Higher Ed

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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Bill: North Dakota presidents could fire tenured faculty

Inside Higher Ed

Image: North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. But he nonetheless continues to support the bill.

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Money Magazine rewards 34 colleges with 5-star ranking, prioritizing ROI and graduation rates

University Business

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Quality of education (weighed 30%): graduation rates, Pell Grant recipient outcomes, peer quality, student-to-faculty ratio, etc. grant Graduation Rate Amherst College (Mass.)

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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Colleges and Universities Offer Faculty Development for AI Use in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

However, more than half of the presidents, provosts and other higher education leaders who participated in an American Association of Colleges and Universities and Elon University survey, said a lack of faculty familiarity at their institution was posing a considerable challenge to the adoption of AI tools.