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KRISTIE BOWERS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bowers holds a bachelor’s degree in human development and a Ph.D. in community and public affairs from Binghamton University as well as a master’s in teaching from Western Carolina University.

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U.S., Other Countries Issue Statement Supporting Academic Freedom

Inside Higher Ed

“Academic freedom is key to human rights education but also essential for technical and scientific progress and for the development of the creative industries and the arts,” says the statement, issued at the 52nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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Fierce Advocate for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her undergraduate degree is in radio/television/film: news and public affairs. The human development she studied in her doctoral program opened her eyes to what was needed on the college level to ensure student success. I’m a great facilitator. That’s one of my top leadership skills.

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WEEKEND READING: It’s time to join the conversation about ChatGPT and other generative AI models

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Eve Alcock, Head of Public Affairs at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). As Sarah Eaton highlights in her new book , we’re looking at a future where hybrid human-AI writing is the norm. They wanted online lectures and relationships with their personal tutors.

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Communicating Effectively in a Presidential Search

Inside Higher Ed

At this point in the process, it’s useful to remember the primacy effect , the human tendency to be influenced disproportionately by first impressions. At this stage, every choice by the institution and its incoming leader sends a signal, positive, negative or neutral, with the potential to resonate into the next administration.

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Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

HEPI

We need to move more HE communications and public affairs away from the conference panel or Whitehall meeting room and into local business, hospitals, community groups, prisons, startups, factories or schools. Those which in an age of AI, climate emergency and global conflicts ask what is to be human and how can we live together.

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A sectorwide approach to higher ed's future (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Here at American University, we doubled our externally funded research over the last five years, and we opened a new Hall of Science that stands alongside our historic strengths in public affairs and international service. She is the first woman to lead the institution. Before that, she served in two cabinet-level positions in the U.S.