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This president has leveraged her city’s tech boom to embrace an AI-centric future

University Business

Now, as artificial intelligence begins to revolutionize the workforce and as Miami becomes the fastest-growing tech hub for venture capital investments post-pandemic, Pumariega’s school is well poised for a new era of student career success and faculty innovation. “President Pumariega spoke to us and said, ‘Think big.’

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The College for Creative Studies Leads With Institution-Wide Artificial Intelligence Policy

College for Creative Study

He quickly recognized the need to adapt and implement guardrails for AI usage so that students and faculty have the ability to use AI as a process tool, but can continue to produce original high quality art and design work. Watson believes continued vigilance in assessing the effectiveness of the policy will be key.

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College professors face the highest exposure to AI tools, study finds

University Business

While only two postsecondary occupations featured in the top 20 on Felten’s original AIOE calculation, postsecondary faculty and staff make up almost 75% of the list when adjusted for language modeling. This doesn’t seem to be a coincidence either. Felten et al. found a 98% correlation with original AIOE scores. Sociologists 20.

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Strategic Adaptation in Higher Education: Navigating 2024 and Beyond: Embracing Transformation and Resilience in Higher Education Business Models

The Change Leader, Inc.

These cuts include cutting 28 majors and 143 faculty. Convincing faculty and other stakeholders to embrace new business models, pedagogies, and technologies requires a delicate balance of respect for academic values and the persuasive articulation of a new vision for the future. Faculty members, too, experienced a shift in perspective.

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The Value of Micro-Credentials for Higher Ed Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 154 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Matt Frank

The Change Leader, Inc.

The more time that was taken to incorporate the multiple voices of the university community and design the program, gives more value to the micro-credential. A program designed with the university’s deans, faculty, and community engagement managers is also more valuable. That is one model. Harvard comes to mind here.

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The Goucher Prison Education Partnership

Goucher DEI

Classes are taught by faculty from Goucher and other local colleges and universities. Sara Citroni sits on a review board that evaluates any new colleges submitting proposals to start new college-in-prison programs in Maryland, and she also supports women getting ready for parole hearings through her full-time work at Prepare.