Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Almost every Asian person has encountered racial mockery by someone aping an Asian language. I first experienced it on an elementary school playground. Never did I imagine that I would witness it by a prominent university leader during a commencement ceremony. Yet Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon did exactly that when he opened his remarks to his university’s commencement ceremony last week with incoherent “Asian” gibberish.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 18, 2022

During the Empower Learners for the Age of AI (ELAI) conference earlier in December 2022, it became apparent to me personally that not only does Artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to revolutionize the field of education, but that it already is. But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The internet has exploded the idea that place-based institutions are one culture. To be sure, some institutions still have students in physical classrooms, but even the nature of those interactions has shattered the institutional culture of the faculty. A professor used to be the arbiter of knowledge. We have seen, however, the gradual acceptance of laptops in the classroom such that a professor might make a statement that was once taken as fact and can now be disputed by a simple search of a we

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After winning a long fight to impose a surtax on the state's highest earners designed to fund education and transportation, unions and educators from throughout Massachusetts are making it clear that public higher education is on the top of their priority list for the newfound funds. "This is the perfect moment to send a message to House and Senate leadership, to our next governor, that we need to make sure that as this money comes in out of the millionaire's tax that we're committing that to pu

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