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3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

About 18 percent is spent on one-time purchases (including books and ebooks). Libraries are buying less print and more electronic materials as print circulation declines. For-profit scholarly publishing has one of the highest profit margins of any industry. Some library value is not quantifiable.

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CCS Announces Winter 2024 Lecture Programming

College for Creative Study

The Toyota Lecture Series will feature accomplished alumni and industry professionals from the disciplines of Communication Design, Advertising Design, Entertainment Arts, Illustration, User Experience Design, Film and Photography. She is the author of two biographies, nine books of poetry, and the editor of two poetry anthologies.

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AI-ROBOT CAPITALISTS WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN ECONOMY (Randall Collins*)

Higher Education Inquirer

It will present itself in the image of an attractive human-- increasingly hard to distinguish from real humans with further advances in impersonating voices, faces and bodies; in a world where electronic media will have largely replaced face-to-face contact. Maybe people who read books and enjoy doing their own thinking?)

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Study Business in the Ivy League – Expert Advice

Great College Advice

So, it wasn’t until the 19th century that Europeans and Americans began thinking of teaching university courses that were directly relevant to both agriculture (where most Americans were employed at the time) and to the advances of the Industrial Age (and the rise of engineering as a discipline). Probably not.

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For meta or for worse…

SRHE

Accenture can now see that “AI is accelerating into a mega-trend, transforming industries, companies and the way we live and work…better positioned to reinvent, compete and achieve new levels of performance.” The 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas in January 2024, was all about AI.

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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 1904, he popularized a new age category in a book entitled Adolescence. ” Middle-class children have grown more knowledgeable and socially- and electronically-connected. Syrett, and others have shown, a product of the era of the Industrial Revolution. Stanley Hall. Andrew Achenbaum, Corrine T.

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Approaching coaching: Should schools be providing psychological coaching to improve student well-being?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

So far, our coach (Caroline Hedler, who’s bio is below) has been fully booked with 50 sessions already this term. Coaching is used widely in industry for companies to get the most out of their employees. Nearly five weeks into term, our feedback has been so positive that I feel it is crucial to share this with colleagues.