February, 2023

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ChatGPT a cheating tool? These educators think you’re looking at it wrong

University Business

In the short few weeks that professor Alex Lawrence has taught his sales technology course this semester at Weber State University, he finds the level of discussion his students are already having “remarkable.” Lawrence is one of academia’s earliest adopters of the controversial ChatGPT AI in the classroom, and thanks to it, Lawrence has witnessed a sizable elevation in student comprehension of class curriculum at a very early stage of the spring semester.

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Using Mini-Lectures to Create Active Learning Space

The Scholarly Teacher

By Todd Zakrajsek , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Key Statement : Using mini-lectures to set up and support active learning is the most effective teaching method. Key Words: Lecture, active learning, efficacy Go Ahead and Lecture Go ahead and lecture. Despite the extensive debates and grandstanding in the literature, the research indicates that it is perfectly fine to lecture, provided you don't lecture poorly or for too long.

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Announces $175 Million in Internet Access Funding for HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced $175 million in Internet access funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), UPI reported. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Affordable, high-speed internet is an essential part of modern life, Harris said Monday at Benedict College. The funding comes through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve internet access at 61 HBCUs – Benedict will get almost $3 million.

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New Issue: Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (JOFDL) Vol 22(2)

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

It is my privilege to serve alongside Alison Fields as co-editor of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, an international high-quality peer-reviewed academic journal. I also have a piece in this issue entitled ‘ Definitions of the Terms Open, Distance, and Flexible in the Context of Formal and Non-Formal Learning ‘ Issue 26 (2) of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (JOFDL) is now available to the world.

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Celebrating Black Higher Education Leaders

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

In honor of Black History Month, I selected 30 inspiring Black Higher Education leaders (because, yes, they needed a full month’s worth) who come from all walks of life and serve in various roles, from Vice Presidents to Deans to Directors. Their excellence, impact, and influence on their communities and institutions are second to none. Through their stories, we can learn about their journey.

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New Vanderbilt housing requires income students don't make

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Kaitlyn Schaaf has lived in four different homes during her five-year (and counting) career as a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. candidate. Her first living situation, a house that she found through a friend of a friend of her aunt, was only 5.5 miles from campus, but in Nashville traffic, the commute took about an hour. Four apartments later, she lives a short bus ride from campus but also shares a 1,100-square-foot space with two other people.

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People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation to be held outside Supreme Court, February 28, 2022

Higher Education Inquirer

Sign up for the People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation to be held outside the US Supreme Court, February 28, 2022. The link is at [link] Stay tuned to this post for more information.

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Race & Justice Imperative Focuses on the Need for Sustained Political Energy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year’s Race & Justice Imperative—a series of conversations with Black political leaders put on by the DC-based newspaper The Hill —came at an auspicious moment for Black power. More Black Americans were elected in 2022 than ever before, and the Congressional Black Caucus now boasts 57 members, a record. But the overwhelming consensus from the people who spoke, a mixture of Congresspeople, academics, and advocates, was that representation is not enough.

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What is The Future of RAs? The Lingering Effects of COVID-19

Roompact

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Sam Ferrigino, Professional Staff Member, UMBC In years past, the RA role has been an indispensable touchpoint for residential college students as they navigate the policies and procedures of living on a college campus.

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How HBCUs Foster Digital Literacy with Creative Tools

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The concept of digital literacy did not arise out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were using digital tools to grapple with assignments, develop creative projects and communicate more effectively before it began. But the circumstances of the pandemic, like having to attend class remotely, brought a new focus on developing higher education students’ digital literacy.

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Leading scientists worldwide are victims of fake articles

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Leading international scientists who discovered articles written by artificial intelligence that have been published in their names have backed plans for legal action. In recent months, academics at leading universities in Australia, Europe and North America have been alerted to low-quality scholarly articles—often little more than a page long, probably written by a language-scraping algorithm—appearing under their names in titles published by Prime Scholars, an open-access pu

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How will we measure student success in the 2020s?

EAB

Blogs How will we measure student success in the 2020s? A review of how student success metrics have evolved over time—and where they might go in the future Before I studied student success, I studied evolutionary biology. I regularly get asked how the two things relate, and I often find myself applying evolutionary thinking to student success challenges.

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Plagiarism catcher Turnitin announces ‘state-of-the-art’ AI writing detector

University Business

Does artificial intelligence have a place in the classroom? That’s yet to be decided as generative AI tools, namely ChatGPT, continue to rock the higher education sphere. What we do know is that efforts to curb cheating have steadily increased since its inception. OpenAI, the chatbot’s creator, launched its own AI-writing detector several weeks ago, yet it’s not 100% accurate, according to the company.

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CUNY Colleges Receive $750,000 for Anti-Bigotry Strategies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The City University of New York (CUNY) colleges and the university’s central offices will see $750,000 distributed to support efforts seeking to address religious, racial, and ethnic bigotry at CUNY. Dr. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez “With our continued commitment to fight against bigotry, antisemitism, and hate of all kinds, our colleges are stepping up and have developed additional programming to address these incidents,” said Dr.

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What is The Future of RAs? An “Other Duties As Assigned” Crisis

Roompact

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Christopher Alan, Professional Staff Member In the past few years, scholars and practitioners have increasingly observed that the role of Resident Assistants has dramatically expanded over time. We are approaching, I believe, an “other.

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Poll: Majority of Higher Ed Leaders Optimistic About Generative AI

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Among the more than 800 higher ed respondents to an EDUCAUSE QuickPoll, 54 percent are optimistic or very optimistic about generative AI, according to a report released earlier this month. The wide-ranging survey also queried higher ed IT leaders and administrators on the potential uses — and abuses — of the latest text-generating GPT 3 tools and looked at what colleges and universities have done in the first few months since the world got a glimpse of OpenAI's ChatGPT and fretted over its poten

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Professor says he was barred from campus after Monsanto info request

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A professor who frequently testifies against Monsanto Co. in lawsuits alleging harm from toxic environmental pollutants called PCBs says that after a Monsanto lawyer filed a records request with his university, the university barred him from campus and offered him a resignation deal. “That was the very first thing that they gave me,” said the professor, David Carpenter of the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York, regarding the resignation offer.

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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

Blogs Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do The first two decades of the 21st century have already witnessed several major disruptions with significant economic impacts, from three recessions to the pandemic to today’s hiring crisis. And with the threat of another recession looming, EAB has received requests for guidance on higher-education philanthropy amidst uncertain times.

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Quality and attainment: 2023’s most—and least—educated states in America

University Business

College may not be for everyone, and some people wonder why their peers are choosing college in the first place. Generally speaking, however, the higher the level of education one receives, the greater their income potential becomes. Also, their chances of unemployment are lower. But that’s not all. According to a new WalletHub study , the correlation between an individual’s education levels and income/employment rates does in fact exist.

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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College Board's decision to revise its African American Studies curriculum has come under fire from many who argue that the changes are motivated by political pressure rather than pedagogical considerations. The new curriculum, which is stripped of much of the subject matter that the DeSantis administration opposed, has been criticized for erasing the experiences of Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, reparations, the queer experience, and Black feminism.

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What is The Future of RAs? – What if…

Roompact

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Justin Mason, Professional, Georgetown University The RA role as we know it has been a staple for residential living for over a few decades. Since the 1960’s, college students living on campus could be.

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University Libraries Evolve to Support Future Needs

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Since opening in 1977, the University of Arizona’s Main Library in Tuscon has served as a central hub for students to study and conduct research, but it hadn’t changed much in four decades. Despite small renovations that included improved computer access and special collections areas, it still looked and felt like an old-fashioned library, with rows of bookshelves, stationary wooden tables and study carrels that didn’t meet students’ needs.

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To fight student disengagement, real-world projects can help

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Undergraduate students are struggling to stay engaged in class—and they believe that material more directly connected to real-life issues could help solve the problem. That’s a key finding of the recent State of the Student 2022 survey by the academic publishing company Wiley, which noted that 55 percent of undergraduate and 38 percent of graduate students said they struggle to remain interested in their classes.

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SRHE Digital University: what’s on in 2023

SRHE

by Janja Komljenovic, Katy Jordan, and Jeremy Knox ( SRHE DU Network Co-Convenors) From 2023, the Digital University (DU) network is launching a new strategy to connect its members, collaborators, and friends. We hope this new way of working will motivate and stimulate debates around everything digital in higher education. We will organise the network’s work and events along three themes each year, chosen to reflect key issues in research and teaching currently.

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Why higher ed needs to get on board with micro-credentials

University Business

A new study focusing on employers’ perspectives on micro-credentials reveals that while a strong majority of them believe it boosts a prospective hire’s value, not enough colleges and universities are capitalizing on it. More than 70% of respondents agreed that job applicants with non-degree or alternative credentials have increased the past two years and those hires helped their organization fill an existing skill gap (74%) and improved the quality of their workforce (73%).

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Fat On Campus: Mitigating Anti-Fat Bias in the Classroom

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By Terah J. Stewart, Roshaunda L. Breeden, Joan N. Collier, Meg E. Evans, Daniel J. Scanlon, Rachel L. Wagner, Erin R. Weston In the classic fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears readers are introduced to a little girl who happens upon a cottage in the forest where she boldly invites herself inside to explore. While there is much to learn and critique from the themes of her story, the part that is most striking to our author team is the intentional focus on space and fit.

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Black History Month – The Work and Importance of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA)

Clark Nesxen

As we celebrate Black History Month, I thought it would be important to share with everyone the work of the National Organization of Minority Architects. As current President of the Virginia Chapter ( VANOMA ), I wanted to use this post as an opportunity to communicate why this organization is important to me and our industry. Ian Vaughan, AIA, NOMA.

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How Universities Can Use AI Chatbots to Connect with Students and Drive Success

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Artificial intelligence has been a blazingly hot topic in higher education since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, stoking early fears that comprehensive, AI-written essays would “blow up” the entire education system. Much of the early panic over ChatGPT has subsided as instructors have realized the limitations of the AI, tools have been developed to detect its use and thought leaders have encouraged colleges to embrace tools like ChatGPT.

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Report: Colleges face disincentives to improving transfer

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A number of financial disincentives deter colleges from smoothly transferring students’ course credits from one institution to another, according to a new white paper by the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB), a group of experts dedicated to transforming the transfer process. The paper, released Thursday, concludes that improving the transfer process has been hampered by short-term thinking by campus leaders concerned about how allowing credits to transfer into their instit

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What is The Future of RAs? What is The Future of Student Affairs?!?!

Roompact

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Julianne Schrader, Professional Staff Member Thinking about the future of the Resident Assistant (RA) role is more than just thinking about the future of the Resident Assistant role! What you’re really asking is what.

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These 10 states spend the most financial aid dollars per undergrad student

University Business

In Scholaroo’s recent student financial aid index report, the scholarship-tracking service investigated the amount of money each state is allocating to its students through assistance programs. The report broke it down by each undergraduate student on average, by state. “Student Financial Aid is a key factor in making college more accessible and affordable for post-secondary students,” the report noted. “It helps them achieve their academic goals by alleviating the financ

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To Support Student Success, Faculty and Campus Leaders Need to Feel a Sense of Belonging Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By Denise S. Bartell, Sandra Robinson & Willie McKether Only two-thirds of new college students will complete their degree within six years. For Black, Latinx, and Native American students, this number is much lower. For colleges and universities to close these equity gaps, they must address the core of the student experience: the time that students spend in the classroom.

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Care as mattering

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this extra post, Dr. Omar Kaissi shares an inspiring example of how he incorporated Mattering – ‘the feeling of being recognised and of importance to someone’, into his personal tutor practice to support the mental health and wellbeing of his international students. Dr.

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Colleges Aim to Fill Workforce Needs With Technology Training Centers

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Innovation in education has always been near and dear to Jon Hardbarger’s heart. Now, however, it’s also near his office, and he can see it and hear it every day when he goes to work. As director of the brand-new College of Lake County Advanced Technology Center in Gurnee, Ill., Hardbarger has a desk just off the building’s atrium, steps away from the front door.

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Utica proposing to cut a dozen programs, faculty ask why

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Utica University’s president on Jan. 18 recommended ending a dozen degree offerings, moves the institution says were informed by a report it won’t release. The private New York college’s public comment period on the changes ends Thursday. A member of the provost-appointed Academic Program Review Taskforce, which created the report, said the members expected the report was going to become public.

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University Business: Getting Creative: How Higher Ed is Finding Solutions to Post-Pandemic Problems

Hanover Research

Drawing on its findings and experience advising nearly 500 colleges and universities nationwide, Hanover Research has an inside line to higher ed and the major themes in which schools are entrenched. The post University Business: Getting Creative: How Higher Ed is Finding Solutions to Post-Pandemic Problems appeared first on Hanover Research.

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These schools have the best student-faculty ratios in the country

University Business

U.S. News recently released its rankings stacking the best schools’ student-faculty ratios, culminating from 1,222 ranked schools’ fall 2022 data. This ranking features the top 16 schools, which had no more than 6 students per teacher on average. When applying for schools, many parents and students look into how personalized a college’s undergraduates can expect their instruction to be from their teachers.

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