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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

ED Surge

He plans to focus on a new effort at Southern New Hampshire to explore how to reshape college teaching through the use of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Navy, and you would have adjunct faculty who would drive to the base and they get their pass and they go in and they teach classes. Will you release a white paper, or tools?

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Moving from Challenges to Solutions: The Future of Educator Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

During the event, we launched Educators Rising’s “Aspiring to Teach” micro-credential stack to support pre-service educators as they develop foundational practices and mindsets for effective teaching. The Summit focused on developing action-oriented solutions to meet the needs of this growing ecosystem.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. We talked philosophy,” Gibson remembers.

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Meet the New APSA Committee on the Status of Disability in the Profession

Political Science Now

Her research and teaching interests include American politics, gender, caregiving, and disability politics and policy. Schneider is also a founding member of the Gender and Political Psychology Group, which organizes mentoring conferences for research and teaching that uses a psychological approach to study gender. She received a Ph.D.

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Can a Group of MIT Professors Turn a White Paper Into a New Kind of College?

ED Surge

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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Making Rhode Island a Home for Innovation

Digital Promise

EdClusters are local communities of practice that support innovative teaching and learning in their region through the congregation of diverse stakeholder groups. The white paper synthesizes the learning of regional practitioners and experts to set Rhode Island’s vision for personalized learning.