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ChatGPT: Educational Friend or Foe?

The Scholarly Teacher

By Todd Zakrajsek, Director ITLC-Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching Key Statement: ChatGPT is a potential game-changer in an ever-changing educational space. Keywords: Evolving Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Student Learning, Assessment What Is ChatGPT? ChatGPT has caused quite a stir in education, and for good reason. For those of you who have not yet heard of ChatGPT, it’s simple enough; you ask a question and ChatGPT responds.

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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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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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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

University Business

The largest HBCU in Alabama is no novice to adversity. Alabama A&M University and HBCUs at large are some of the most underfunded state universities in the nation, fighting year after year for supplemental grants, scholarships and business partnerships to keep their students competitive in the workforce. Jobs for the Future , a nonprofit focused on the American workforce and education systems, recently identified a skill and career gap among Black learners and job seekers.

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Another HBCU on Track for Reaccreditation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. The college is anticipating submitting its application for approval in April. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997. Since then, it has regained authorized status in Tennessee, which allows them to confer credentials.

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Influential Women in Higher Education

Dr. Josie Ahlquist

It still kinda blows my mind that America may have been founded in 1776, but it wasn’t until (almost) 200 years later that women started to receive “equal” treatment. It was… And, unfortunately, the race is not over. We didn’t always have a month dedicated to celebrating women. The National Women’s History Project was founded in 1980 and lobbied congress to designate a month to celebrate women.

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The best higher education and digital marketing conferences of 2023

Terminalfour

Want to know which are the most interesting higher education and digital marketing conferences taking place this year? We’ve compiled some of our favorites to get excited about, covering a broad list of highly relevant topics to higher education.

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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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Defend your college’s academic freedom: Here’s a toolkit to help you do it

University Business

Last year, proposed legislation prohibiting how teachers discuss race, racism and other topics that touch identity spiked 250%, according to PEN America, 39% of which targeted higher education. The First Amendment-defending organization, which has dubbed the legislation “gag orders,” has tracked 44 state legislatures that proposed nearly 300 of such bills.

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Finlandia University Announces Closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Finlandia University announced Thursday that it will not enroll students for the upcoming academic year and has teach-out agreements in place as it prepares to close. In a statement announcing the looming closure, the Board of Trustees pointed to demographic changes that have led to a “steep decrease in interest in going to college.” “I want to assure you that the Board of Trustees made every effort possible to work with President [Timothy] Pinnow and his leadership team to avo

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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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Report: Significant Amount of Faculty Today Self-Censor Due to Fears of Reprisal

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faculty members are more likely to self-censor today than social scientists did during McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s, according to a recent report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Dr. Sean Stevens At the end of the Second Red Scare in 1955, 9% of social scientists said they toned down their writing for fear of causing controversy.

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Emerging leaders: 4 colleges hire their first Black or female—or both—president

University Business

These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Mount Union (Ohio), St. Norbert College (Wis.) and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. The number of full-time enrolled undergraduate students for Mount Holyoke, Mount Union and St.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Reskilling. Upskilling. Certificates. Certifications. Badges. Licenses. Microcredentials. Alternative credentials. Digital credentials. So many terms. So little agreement on what they mean, least of all in higher ed. “Employers say, ‘It’s great that this individual has these skills, but we’ll ask our own questions to verify the learner’s knowledge,’” Kyle Albert, assistant research professor at the George Washington University Institute of Public

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4 Places to Study Abroad if You Like Wildlife

AIFS Abroad

Last Updated on March 1, 2023 by Cat Rogliano March 3 rd is World Wildlife Day, an international holiday to celebrate all of Earth’s diverse animals and plants. Here’s something you may not have considered before – studying abroad is a unique opportunity for you to observe and learn about some of the world’s most incredible animals in their natural habitats.

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Racism at the Hyatt Spurs Action to Ensure Safety at Conventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was supposed to be a night of celebration. Dr. Celeste Malone, an associate professor and coordinator of the psychology program at Howard University, had invited fellow Black psychologists, graduate students, and a small number of friends and family to celebrate in her presidential suite on the evening of Feb. 8. The gathering was part of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) annual convention at the Hyatt Regency in Denver.

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U.S. News rankings out, digital marketing in?

University Business

The stream of graduate schools opting out of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings may be growing to include entire universities, but what these schools will do to market themselves effectively remains unanswered. When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. Berkeley and Georgetown, followed suit. Soon enough, medical schools from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania quit it as well.

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Advice for how colleges can avoid or end toxic work cultures (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Besides damaging people’s health, they’re detrimental to employee retention and long-term satisfaction, so colleges must rid themselves of such cultures, says Richard Orbé-Austin. Job Tags: ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS Ad keywords: administrators Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: ArtemisDiana/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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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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New Analysis Shows Boost in Aid Eligibility from FAFSA Simplification

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When the FAFSA Simplification Act begins to take effect this July, it’s expected to significantly affect the process of applying for financial aid, making the paperwork less complex and altering the formula for eligibility. However, there has been scant information on the specific impacts at a national level. Now, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) has begun to fill that void with the release of new data estimating changes in how student and family assets will be c

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Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick on creating real, lasting diversity in corporate America

University Business

Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick is the 17th president of Howard University, one of 107 historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S., serving some 11,000 students across its undergraduate, graduate, and professional student programs. Frederick is the distinguished Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine.

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The plight of adjuncts reflects academe's dysfunction (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We’ve proven over and over that there’s enough work to give many of us full-time positions, writes Stephen Werner, but things are moving in the opposite direction. Job Tags: Academic administration Editorial Tags: Adjuncts Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Dilok Klaisataporn/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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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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Report Emphasizes the Importance of Professional Social Capital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit driving workforce and education transformation, in partnership with the University of Phoenix released the report “Professional Social Capital: A Key to Black Economic Advancement.” It contains an action-based framework that addresses systemic barriers in education and workforce development as well as outlining strategies for colleges and employers to support career advancement for Black learners and workers by building professional social capital.

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Study Abroad Day 2023: In Your Own Words 

AIFS Abroad

Happy Study Abroad Day 2023! Taking place annually on the last Monday in February, this national holiday aims to bring awareness to the benefits and lasting impact of international education. While we could sing the praises of going abroad all day, we thought it would be more meaningful to hand the mic over to YOU. Let’s kick off Study Abroad Day 2023!

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ChatGPT can help students and faculty with ADHD (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

How could a chat bot that is causing panic in academia leave me with a palpable sense of focus and calm as a professor? I have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and ChatGPT has become my go-to assistive technology for writing and for teaching. Assistive technologies (AT) specifically for folks with ADHD are not new. A suite of technologies address and help mitigate barriers associated with ADHD, including time management, notetaking and voice-recognition software.

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The Impact of FAFSA Completion on Pell Grant Funds

Higher Education Today

Title: Pell Dollars Left on the Table: How Many Pell Grant Dollars Did the High School Class of 2022 Leave Unclaimed in Your State? Authors: Raymond AlQaisi and Bill DeBaun Source: National College Attainment Network (NCAN) Approximately 7 million undergraduate students benefit every year from receiving the Pell Grant, a federal financial assistance program for.

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Dr. Ruth Simmons Appointed Senior Adviser on HBCU Engagement for Harvard President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Ruth Simmons, the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), will become a senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), effective Jun. 1, The Harvard Gazette reported. Dr. Ruth Simmons Simmons, president emerita of Smith College and Brown University, recently announced an early resignation as PVAMU President after hiring disagreements with the Chancellor of the Texas system chancellor.

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Success Story: Concordia University – Nebraska

Via's

Concordia University, Nebraska, Makes Move from “Clunky” System to Via Via Helps One-Person Office “Keep Plates Spinning in a Functional Way” Julie Johnston Hermann, director of global opportunities at Concordia University, Nebraska, had been contemplating changing software providers for some time when she learned about Via. “Our other system was pretty clunky,” Julie says.

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The English Degree Is Great Job Preparation

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” Heller covers a lot of ground , and none of it will be novel (pardon the pun) to people who read a publication called Inside Higher Ed. One of the benefits of having been writing in this space for such a long time is that I can go to my own archives over these evergreen issues and see

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It Takes More Than Technology to Secure Your Institution

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Every IT department in higher education is focused on cybersecurity. For years now, colleges and universities have been subjected to cyberattacks, and as long as institutions continue to be storehouses of massive amounts of student, research and staff data, they will continue to be targeted. Over time, higher education institutions have gotten a little better at defending themselves.

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Breaking the Silence: Mental Health and Trauma on Campus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was coincidental that the American College Health Association’s (ACHA’s) Gun Safety Task Force met shortly after the Michigan State University shooting earlier this month on Feb. 13, said Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the task force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the ACHA Gun Safety Task Force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University.

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How Technology Can Expand Support for Students with a Disability

Symplicity

Roughly 20 percent of students enrolled in higher education have reported having a disability, according to the most recent federal data. This means there is a significant portion of college students that have a form of disability whether visible or otherwise. While the U.S. Department of Education does not require students to disclose their specific disability, but in order for a student to receive academic accommodations they must disclose in an accommodation request.

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Ph.D.s should apply curiosity and creativity in their careers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Category: Carpe Careers Sonali Majumdar outlines how grad students and postdocs can apply the same qualities they do in their research to unlock possibilities in their professional lives. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Graduate students Postdocs Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Erhui1979/digitalvision vectors/getty iamges Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?

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What is The Future of RAs? We Are Not Those People Anymore

Roompact

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Sonora Hernandez, Professional Staff Member In the words of television star, the illustrious Moira Rose, “We are not those people anymore, John.” We are afraid of change. In a world where things have been.

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University of Louisville Launches Fundraising Campaign to Bolster Research and Add Endowed Faculty Roles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Louisville (UofL) has launched a fundraising campaign to match a $10 million state investment, which will go towards adding endowed faculty positions and advancing university research. This campaign with Bucks-for-Brains – a program that matches private donations going to Kentucky universities with state dollars, effectively doubling the support of private investment into research – will fund UofL’s efforts to hire faculty in fields such as inflammation and microbiome; bioinfor