Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Jeff Schiel ACT For the report, " High School Students’ Use and Impressions of AI Tools ", ACT researchers asked 4,006 10th to 12th-grade students nationally about their AI usage and their views on such tools. Computer science and programming was found to be the least common reason for such tool use (17%).

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JULY 14, 2023

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Kay Ivey’s recent executive order requiring all state-owned networks and devices to block access to and from the TikTok social media application, Auburn University’s Office of Information Technology began blocking TikTok on campus via wi-fi access on Dec. All this personal information. 13,” Auburn said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” I believe CEED is a national model,” Sanders says. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. Gramsci, toiling away at his notebooks in his prison cell, and other geniuses who have done important research and literary creation under the hardest circumstances, are the exceptions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Educational institutions are in dire need of cybersecurity professionals as criminal organizations continue to set their sights on the education sector. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently announced the expansion of its cybersecurity education initiative to all 50 states. But what about higher ed?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Creating a data-informed campus: part 2. The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

higher education institutions is finally seeing growth again, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). NSC researchers examined differences between community colleges focused on transferring students as opposed to those focused on vocational programs. There's been a lot of growth in graduate students."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It is an exciting time to be thinking about educational governance and my key message was ‘don’t get caught up in the hype’ Understanding media representations of “Artificial Intelligence”. What there is, is a clear exponential increase in the capabilities being demonstrated by computation algorithms. The post A.I.:

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The question is to what extent universities feel the need to step into the developmental space around XR technologies, and who should they be watching. Apple has not made much public noise around XR technologies beyond integrating AR functionalities into its recent iPhone releases. Who should universities watch? Think small.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Introduction Generative AI in higher education has been widely discussed following the record-breaking uptake of ChatGPT in November 2022 (Dwivedi et al., Generative AI tools can refine research topics, support data analysis, and format references. We offer two initial check-in questions to educators. 2023; Gordon, 2023).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

by Anita Toh As scholarly research into and using generative AI tools like ChatGPT becomes more prevalent, it is crucial for researchers to understand the intersections of copyright, fair use, and use of generative AI in research. This evokes the question: Why doesn’t the proposed research align with fair use?

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

As you think about those inciting incidents that drew you to higher education, take time to connect with those who have been by your side on your journey. Higher education is heading into the eye of the tornado. In education, we are really good at focusing on what and how and when, at solving the problems before us.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, the authors share details about the new Computer Science Education Group; an innovative initiative that aims to bring together staff and students of varied backgrounds involved in Computer Science Education. What Sets Us Apart?

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University Business

JULY 2, 2024

Educators on the cutting edge of generative AI and its application in the classroom are discovering fascinating new ways to assess learning, uprooting centuries-old reading- and writing-based assessments as more and more students employ ChatGPT and related tools. Researchers at the University of Reading in the U.K.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Joining a research and education network (REN) is a worthwhile investment for any college or university with a research program. They act as high-powered internet service providers connecting laboratories, research sites and academic institutions.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 25, 2016

I first visited Stanford and MIT in 1973 when I was writing computer programs to teach school students algebra. Since then the use of statistics has become much more sophisticated and learners have been offered an increasing variety of ways of using computers to take greater control of their own learning.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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College Forward

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — College Possible , the pioneering national nonprofit on a mission to boost equitable college access and success by connecting high school and college students from low-income backgrounds with near-peer coaches, today announced the appointment of Ali Ayub as senior vice president of finance, technology, and data.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This post is part 3 of 3, and belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education. Students monitor their grade point average (GPA) like investors tracking stocks, and researchers obsess over their h-index scores like they’re anxiously awaiting show reviews. Organization Theory, 3(3).

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Clark Nesxen

AUGUST 24, 2023

Magnet schools emerged on the K-12 scene as early as the 1960s to establish a public education option that met multiple goals: attracting a diverse student body from across a school district, supporting students with specific interests, and offering equitable opportunities resulting in high levels of academic success.

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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

Most student affairs professionals would do just about anything to support students in the increasingly dynamic and resource-strapped landscape of higher education. Technology support Information technology is the #1 area where entities access cooperative buying agreements. Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Impact of AI on Higher Education Content Marketing Tactics By the time you read this, it could be old news — that’s how fast the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving. surrounding the technology is all about. These advanced features fundamentally alter how we can interact with machines and access information.

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University Business

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s no secret that the commercialization of generative AI tools is deeply impacting higher education. Its ability to reduce workloads to a fraction of what it once was for students and faculty and administrators alike is invigorating forward thinkers to leverage the technology even more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Without delay, the colleges set to work performing restorative activities on their respective computer networks, according to Meg Casper Sunstrom, deputy commissioner for strategic communications at the Louisiana Board of Regents. Then the account added, “This is all of the information currently available for release.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.” ” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity. Controversies surrounding math education are not, of course, confined to California. Linus: New math is too much for me.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 23, 2022

Because Discord is privately owned and not supported by most universities, faculty members will need to allow students the option of joining the class server and offer alternative ways of communicating information through the approved LMS. What could be the drawbacks of implementing a technology such as Discord into your existing courses?

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Even before I moved back to Silicon Valley four years ago, I was intrigued with some of the claims being made about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. Given current levels of development, AI seems to have more uses in higher education as compared to the automotive world. Bots that answer students’ questions.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Nourbakhsh, Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, discussed a series of issues related to AI and its potential applications. Nourbakhsh is the author of the books Robot Futures and Parenting for Technology Futures. However, these ideas don’t seem to have made it out of the lab.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

The next-level artificial intelligence capabilities of ChatGPT, a chat bot released in late November by the research company OpenAI, have inspired many predictions, both drastic and ecstatic, for the end of essay writing, if not education as we know it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

As a composition instructor and sometime creative writer, I admit to being stung by the email informing me “that we’re making some changes to our content priorities and production volume, and unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer you hours after this week.” Why not rely on help from technology?

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. This then was quite a gap to be bridged.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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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