Teaching and Learning
Assessing Learning Strategies (Learning Scientists, July 4, 2024): Brief listing of four different assessments of learning strategies.
Student Voice Survey: The Academic Experience (Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, July 3, 2024): Students rate their educational quality highly while signaling ways to improve their academic experience in newly released data and analysis from our annual survey of college undergraduates.
How to Engage Students in Difficult Conversations When Consensus Is Impossible (Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2024): Strategies for fostering understanding, empathy and respect in academic discussions.
Five Keys to Motivating Students (Maryellen Weimer, Faculty Focus, July 1, 2024): A new look at Paul Pintrich’s much cited meta-analysis on motivating students.
All Things AI
Anatomy of an AI Essay (Elizabeth Steere, Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2024): How might you distinguish one from a human-composed counterpart? After analyzing dozens, the author lists some key, rather predictable features.
How Higher Ed Can Adapt to the Challenges of AI (Joseph E. Aoun, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2024): The future is here. Now is the time to make sense of it.
Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources (Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, June 26, 2024): How will OpenAI keep its promise to media companies?
DEI
Four Common Arguments Against DEI and How to Dismantle Them (BonniStachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed, July 3, 2024): 33-min podcast discussion with Amira Barger.
New Anti-DEI Legislation Goes Into Effect in 4 States (Maggie Hicks, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2024): Of at least 39 bills introduced in 19 states this year, four have passed, according to a Chronicle analysis. Utah’s law is the most sweeping.
DEI Ban Prompts Utah Colleges to Close Cultural Centers, Too (Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed, July 1, 2024): As in Florida, Texas and other states that have passed anti-DEI legislation, Utah’s public institutions are applying the law with a broad brush.
Future Imperfect
Marathon Ohio Legislative Session Leads to Passage of Education Bills (J.D. Davidson, The Center Square, June 27, 2024): Bill includes a requirement to provide release time for students to study any religion during school hours.
WVU [West Virginia University] Spends $1M to Implement Lawmakers’ ‘Campus Carry’ Bill, Says Only 5 Students Have Applied (Amelia Ferrell Knisely, June 27, 2024): The Republican-backed bill didn’t come with any funding, leaving universities to pay for its implementation. WVU is dealing with a $45 million deficit.
Extra Credit Reading
Supreme Court Decision Weakens Education Department (Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2024): After the justices struck down a 40-year precedent last week, experts warn of chaos for higher education amid doubts about the future of Title IX and gainful employment, among other policies.
Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors? (Steven M. Teles, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 1, 2024): The facts are beyond dispute. The causes and solutions are not.
The Supreme Court Just Weakened Federal Agencies. Here’s What It Means for Higher Ed (Amanda Friedman, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 28, 2024): The downfall of the “Chevron deference” may complicate the implementation of Title IX rules and a bevy of other policies that touch college campuses.
Building a Wall Around Science: The Effect of U.S.-China Tensions on International Scientific Research (Robert Flynn, Britta Glennon, Raviv Murciano-Goroff and Jiusi Xiao, National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2024): Tensions between the United States and China have disrupted international scientific collaboration, as well as the mobility of graduate students and early-career researchers, and led to reduced productivity among scientists of Chinese descent in America.
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