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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. So, in addition to delivering instruction that focuses on skills, technique and emerging technologies, we must also provide safe and inclusive space for students to explore visual storytelling in service to critical issues.”

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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Five hundred of the approximately 5,000 students across the three soon-to-be-merged institutions responded, and those students indicated, “We want information as quickly as possible, and digital is better,” according to Grewal. Still, UC Merced sought to create a model for a 21st-century academic research library.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Library Management System Software

Creatrix Campus

A Comprehensive Guide to Library Management System Software. Managing a house of books is not a small deal. Cataloging, stock keeping, managing lending, and borrowing can take a lot of time and effort for your institutional librarian when done manually. How in general is a library managed? Wed, 12/07/2022 - 00:44.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school. It’s necessary.

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How You Will Never Be Able to Trust Generative AI (and Why That’s OK)

eLiterate

Nevertheless, both people and technologies have fundamental limits to their growth. AI based on today’s transformer technology will never have the kind of photographic memory a relational database or file system can have. You don’t understand Chinese, but you have an extensive rule book written in English.

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Everything you need to know about an effective Faculty Management Solution

Creatrix Campus

Everything you need to know about an effective Faculty Management Solution. Providing the best faculty management or faculty experience is as important as providing the student experience. Let’s explore how to improve faculty experiences through faculty management solutions in this guide. . What is Faculty Management System?

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities. is spent on preservation, binding, and other maintenance of physical collections (including rare books and archives).