Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Image: In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total. H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.

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Dan Cohen

MAY 25, 2021

It’s a good model and a clever use of IIIF (the International Image Interoperability Framework). Speaking of journalism: If news is the first rough draft of history, then we are in clear danger of losing that draft, and with it, considerable knowledge. I can imagine many uses for education and explanatory journalism.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can now produce polished, technically competent texts in seconds, challenging our traditional understanding of writing as a uniquely human process of creation, reflection, and learning. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Nick Shackleton-Jones (2019) provides a neurological explanation of this principle in his Affective Context Model of learning. Prior to the relatively recent development of formal education in human history, students learned important lessons not in classrooms, but from stories told by elders.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 25, 2025

Kellogg Foundation with 176 leaders from 144 organizations, the TRHT Implementation Guidebook outlined a model for healing across races, ages, and sectors. The goal of TRHT is to jettison a belief in a hierarchy of human value, says Pasquerella. Launched in 2016 by the W.K. Changing that narrative isnt just about shifting perspectives.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

It is essential for institutional actors to understand how models perform for specific groups. Our study indicates that models perform better for students categorized as white and Asian,” said Dr. Denisa Gándara, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study.

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The PIE News

JULY 18, 2024

I am slightly ashamed that a key driver for me to study in Newcastle was a (then) newly developed fondness for how Alan Shearer played football, as I had transitioned from bullish centre half to bullish centre forward in my late teens, and was attempting to model my football on the Newcastle number nine.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

Allan Hamilton outlines key concepts such as machine learning and generative multimodal models, and explores applications in teaching clinical skills,communication, and surgical procedures. His human-centred approach proposes that technology could enhance, not replace, personal aspects of care.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Given that the natural language model earned passing scores on the evidence and torts portion of the bar exam, among other feats, some in academe fret that the technology may facilitate widespread cheating. The artificial intelligence language model was released by OpenAI and is currently offered free as a research preview. As editors?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

It is also a highly gendered one because history repeatedly illustrates a strong societal lack of care and concern for Black women, resulting in untimely death, insurmountable stress, strategic interference and undermining, and other forces that ensure our time in leadership ends far too soon. It is a loss.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. When STEM disciplines integrate the humanities and arts , learning outcomes include critical thinking, resilience, self-efficacy and other valuable traits, such as “recruitment, learning and retention of women and underrepresented minorities.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will avoid crowd enthusiasms, fads, and panics; and take advantage of humans who act emotionally. It will solve all its technical problems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. For Dr. Ruth J. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is former president of Brown University. “If

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

History Faculty can use AR in a history class to help students better visualize and interact with historic sites. For example, a history professor might create virtual replicas of ancient ruins, allowing students to explore the detailed layout of the sites. AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. With AI, educators can create more differentiated learning tools and enhance personalization. Perhaps, perhaps not.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

With their enhanced academic experience, strong sense of community and emphasis on engaged learning, the public honors college provides a model of what public higher education can be. I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

or higher and an interest in Black history, life, and culture. Unlike Honors Colleges at some other institutions that have created specialized programs to attract Black students, Sacramento State’s model is radically different. I am not surprised to learn that President Wood is continuing to make history," said Ford.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

Destination long haul; Higher Education residential undergraduate student fieldtrips Outdoor education, particularly fieldtrips, offer a wide array of learner benefits and can be integral to different undergraduate programmes such as Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES), archaeology, history and classics.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In both instances, robust AI-enabled scoring models support the measurement of the Speaking and Writing sections. For the at-home format, we have security technologies in place that actively monitor test takers’ behaviour, which directly support human proctors that monitor each test from start to finish. Kara received a Ph.D.

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Liaison International

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Combining AI-driven insights with human empathy ensures ethical, accurate, and meaningful interactions that foster trust and improve the community college student experience. Balancing AI With Human Interaction As powerful as these AI tools for student engagement and personalization are, the human element remains vital.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. This latest version largely outperforms the earlier model. There are noteworthy exceptions. Then came GPT-4.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

An associate professor of medicine, medical ethics, health humanities, and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine and director of its Humanities Expression and Arts Lab, who also moonlighted for McSweeney’s, the non-profit publishing house, Nuila is the son of a Salvadoran immigrant. Don't get his argument wrong.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Shayne Halls Halls, president and CEO of Manifested Dreams , a company that connects organizations to AI services, spoke about the various ways AI can improve tasks and projects previously assigned to humans, removing human biases and time-intensive processes along the way. “AI AI is not new.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

By now you’ve likely seen the hubbub over ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new chat bot trained on their large language model AI GPT 3.5. To begin, this introductory blog post will focus on an overview of large language model AIs and their potential impact on higher education. Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Could it be that education has become so transactional that the human connection and engagement with ideas are just by-products of degree attainment? How Human Connection Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). I am beginning to think the only way out of this is to focus on the relational aspect of education.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Tim’s Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium , which took two years of advocacy and planning, and draws on several more of research across neurodiversity and art education, took place at the University of the Arts Helsinki , modelling best practices for inclusivity, not just for neurodivergent folx. Universities, watch and learn.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 28, 2023

History Faculty can use AR in a history class to help students better visualize and interact with historic sites. For example, a history professor might create virtual replicas of ancient ruins, allowing students to explore the detailed layout of the sites. AR can help faculty breathe new life into the study of the past.

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HEPI

APRIL 10, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. As with so much else mid-2020, this model had to be abandoned.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

[block:block=176] This apocalyptic narrative has a long history in the environmental movement and within academia. ” Effective social action must be based on a plausible model of social change. Telling them that the future human condition will be fundamentally worse than the present is hyperbole.​ Teach social change.

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