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WEBSuccess Program Launch: AI-Powered Study Tools for Students. A new initiative at the University of Delaware uses generative artificial intelligence to identify key themes and ideas in professors’ lectures, which can be transformed into flash cards and other digital learning tools. 1. 2.
A Pocket Guide to Academic Ranks - Inside Higher Ed
WEBJan 17, 2022 · A Pocket Guide to Academic Ranks. Explaining what titles mean for faculty members and academic administrators. By Kathy Johnson Bowles. “When I look at the position titles in academic affairs, I have no idea what they mean.”. While job titles in most higher education divisions seem straightforward, academic affairs structures its position ...
Efforts are making education for deaf students more accessible …
WEBApr 14, 2021 · Colleges and individuals are endeavoring to make education for deaf people more inclusive and accessible by developing technical vocabulary, training interpreters of color and ensuring greater access. Educational attainment for deaf people, according to the latest research from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, has been ...
Birth Dearth Approaches - Inside Higher Ed
WEBDec 14, 2020 · Most of them are projected to post stable numbers of graduates over the next five years. Afterward, all but one, Florida, are expected to see their graduating classes shrink between 2025 and 2037. Just two, Florida and Texas, are expected to have larger high school graduating classes in 2037 than they did in 2019.
7 Hard Truths and a Few Lies - Inside Higher Ed
WEBNov 17, 2021 · Truth No. 2: You might be hired because of your innovative thoughts, but be aware that most faculty members will resent change. Graduate students and junior faculty bring to our campuses the most current research and pedagogical approaches, along with the lack of the jadedness of how it was “all better 30 years ago.”.
What students see as cheating and how allegations are handled
WEBDec 6, 2021 · Then there are professors who are “tired of students cheating” and will seemingly “do anything to find something to report,” she says. When Hofstra put its Honor Code in place, one goal was to increase the number of reports, Frisina says, adding that the goal was realized early on. Still, many professors want to manage the situation ...
Re-engaging history with social sciences and modern challenges
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Reengaging history with the social sciences and contemporary challenges. The discipline of history, while continuing to produce valuable scholarship, is in a rut. The kind of methodological, conceptual and theoretical breakthroughs that took place in the 1970s—with the rise of the new social and new cultural history and the opening of wholly …
WEBGenerative AI presents solutions and carries limitations for administrators, faculty, and students in the higher education setting. For administrative staff, generative AI can help scale support services and more efficiently evaluate applications from prospective students. Faculty can use AI to assist with simple research tasks, curriculum ...
Co-Curricular Pathways Can Improve Retention - Inside Higher Ed
WEBOct 13, 2020 · Co-curricular experiences encourage students’ engagement in ways that directly and indirectly shape their degree completion and postcollege success. Those experiences can significantly increase student retention -- whether in person, online or blended -- if institutions make a strategic effort to establish clear co-curricular pathways …
Report: Most institutions see tension over online courses
WEBAug 13, 2024 · According to the ninth annual “Changing Landscape of Online Education” (CHLOE) report, released today, roughly three-quarters of the chief learning officers polled reported an increasing demand for online options from campus-based students, with 60 percent noting that online sections typically fill first. Nearly half (46 percent) of the 324 ...