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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. As the world becomes increasingly digitalized and reliant on technology, the demand for STEM skills and careers is growing rapidly.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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President moves: Hired, fired, retired and one unexpected loss after a 19-year tenure

University Business

Remembering Sister Candace Introcaso The word came from La Roche University’s Twitter page: “With a heavy heart, I must inform you that moments before the 2 p.m. Wager also oversaw the college’s $40 million campus renovation, no small fee for a small private technology college with a sub-2,000 student body. “We

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Is HyFlex a viable teaching approach in 'normal' times?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Joining for the discussion were two professors who have both taught in the HyFlex format and done research on its impact. Enilda Romero-Hall is an associate professor in the learning design and technology program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; she started teaching HyFlex before the pandemic and got her Ph.D.

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Student survey reveals gaps in core academic advising functions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This includes choosing majors, internships and research opportunities, and graduate programs, and managing unforeseen events or health issues that challenge academic success. ” Think: technology, number of academic advisers and degree program plans. A whole lot of factors come into play here.” It can cut both ways.”

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How Machine Learning and AI Can Benefit Higher Ed: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 145 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton with Guest Michael Feldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

To help higher ed decision-makers avoid getting too caught up in the negative hype, Dr. Drumm McNaughton discusses these technologies with Michael Feldstein , chief accountability officer at e-Literate. About Our Guest Michael Feldstein has been an educator and a student of educational technology for over 30 years.