A Pocket Guide to Academic Ranks - Inside Higher Ed
Jan 17, 2022 · Academic administrators typically hold faculty rank and are often tenured. They have 12-month contracts and may teach on occasion. After serving as an administrator, individuals with tenure may return to the classroom as faculty. In academic affairs, directors are most often responsible for co-curricular programs.
The True Purpose of a College Education - Inside Higher Ed
Nov 4, 2021 · Create opportunities for your students to experiment with identities and test new ideas with as few constraints and penalties as possible. Foster a responsible independence. Model desired behavior. Nurture an atmosphere of mutual trust and open communication. Provide empathy, support, feedback and guidance as needed.
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Two years in, NIL is fueling chaos in college athletics - Inside …
Jun 7, 2023 · “NIL is a powerful vehicle that rightfully allows student-athletes the ability to earn compensation from their unique market value. At the same time, the lack of transparency in today’s NIL marketplace puts student-athletes in jeopardy of exploitation by bad actors,” Baker tweeted. For the highly competitive SEC conference—which spans 11 states and has …
Generative 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 ...
Experts weigh in on college student mental health crisis - Inside …
Aug 19, 2024 · Methodology. Inside Higher Ed’s annual Student Voice survey was fielded in May in partnership with Generation Lab and had 5,025 total student respondents.. The sample includes over 3,500 four-year students and 1,400 two-year students. Over one-third of respondents are post-traditional (attending a two-year institution or 25 or older in age), 16 …
More Than Half of Recent 4-Year College Grads Underemployed
Feb 22, 2024 · A new report found that many recent graduates don’t land jobs that require a degree. More than half of recent four-year college graduates, 52 percent, are underemployed a year after they graduate, according to a new report from Strada Institute for the Future of Work and the Burning Glass Institute. A decade after graduation, 45 percent of them still don’t hold a …
The Evolving Role of the University Registrar - Inside Higher Ed
Sep 9, 2019 · Matthew Pittinsky explores what the rise of academic computing teaches us about a 500-year-old position that could increasingly transform higher education. Last spring, staff from the registrar offices of 20 or so colleges and universities met on the campus of Georgetown University to share best practices. The keynote that kicked off the event ...
Professors proceed with caution using AI-detection tools - Inside …
Feb 9, 2024 · Mixed performance by AI-detector tools leaves academics with no clear answers. As AI-driven fakery spreads—from election-related robocalls and celebrity deepfake videos to doctored images and students abusing the powers of ChatGPT—a tech arms race is ramping up to detect these falsehoods. But in higher ed, many are choosing to stand back and wait, …
6 Attributes of an Academic Discipline - Inside Higher Ed
May 6, 2018 · Krishnan identifies 6 characteristics of an academic discipline. Below I enumerate each attribute, and then explore the fit of our contemplated discipline. 1 - "Disciplines have a particular object of research (e.g. law, society, politics), though the object of research maybe shared with another discipline." Analysis: This “object of research ...