Education

[ad_1] The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, this week. The report acknowledges that the rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) advances is impacting society and summarizes opportunities and risks for AI in teaching, learning, research, and …

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[ad_1] Hunter College has fired an adjunct who disrupted the activities of an antiabortion group on campus and who threatened a reporter with a machete when he went to her home, the Associated Press reported. A spokesperson said Shellyne Rodriguez was fired after the incident on campus in which she was videotaped, calling the abortion opponents’ information …

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[ad_1] Texas bills that would affect tenure and ban an expansive definition of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies at public institutions are on the brink of passage. But they are also running out of time. The legislature adjourns Monday, and any bills not passed to the governor by then die—unless resurrected later in …

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[ad_1] Multiple faculty groups are calling on University of Vermont leaders to do more to address campus antisemitism after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights concluded the university mishandled antisemitism complaints, The Burlington Free Press reported. University leaders announced new plans to support Jewish students on campus in accordance …

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[ad_1] Picking up where they left off at last week’s hearing with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Republicans on the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee pressed senior department officials for firm answers and commitments on responding to requests for documents and details and on other issues. Wednesday’s hearing was the second in a series …

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[ad_1] The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., has changed its moniker from the Colonials, long criticized for celebrating European imperialism, to the Revolutionaries, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The Board of Trustees, which announced last year that the university was seeking a new moniker, said the name suggestion came from GWU president Mark S. …

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[ad_1] State funding for public higher education increased by nearly 5 percent in fiscal year 2022—without factoring in inflation, according to the latest State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).  The boost represents the largest state higher ed investment nationally since the 2008 recession, when massive budget …

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[ad_1] Writing recently at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia University undergraduate, Owen Kichizo Terry, declared that faculty “have no idea” how much students are using ChatGPT. Terry shows how he prompted ChatGPT through a series of steps to produce a 6-page close reading of the Iliad, starting by using it to generate a series of thesis statements …

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[ad_1] Hunter College has fired an adjunct who disrupted the activities of an anti-abortion group on campus and who threatened a reporter with a machete when he went to her home, the Associated Press reported. A spokesperson said Shellyne Rodriguez was fired after the incident on campus in which she was videotaped, calling the abortion …

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[ad_1] The American Association of University Professors released today a preliminary report sounding alarm about Florida higher education under Ron DeSantis’s governorship—and calling for academe to fight back. “It is imperative that we pay attention to the dire situation in Florida now,” the report says. “What is happening in Florida will not stay in Florida. …

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