Assumed within the term “artificial intelligence” is a difference between that kind of intelligence and the real thing—actual, true, non-artificial intelligence, whatever that is. It’s like the difference between artificial flowers and real ones; artificial flowers lack certain key characteristics of real flowers (notably, the things we most appreciate—subtle or powerful scents, the silky [...]
We're at a turning point in higher education. The old models are being tested by new realities: tighter budgets, shifting student demographics, and a growing mental health crisis among our young people. But within these challenges lies the potential for a renaissance, a chance to redefine what higher education means in the 21st century. [...]
This is a very hard time; we march on. Even in today’s dark and uncertain environment for higher education, colleges and universities are trying to advance strategic priorities, support students, faculty, and staff, and move forward toward a sustainable future. But immediate threats and looming dangers repeatedly flash into life, interconnect, reinforce, and become [...]
Across the nation, higher education professionals are gearing up for conference season— where industry leaders share knowledge, gain tools to strengthen their strategy and practice, and expand their professional networks. However, savvy campus leaders also know that this is an opportune time for another goal: engaging talented professionals looking for their next career step. [...]
To cultivate humanity is to invest in, enrich, or elevate all that it is to be human. But cultivating humanity has become a pressing challenge in higher education, because learning about what it means to be human depends on significant and ongoing personal engagement of students with faculty and staff who serve as mentors, [...]
Institutions and Persons We too easily lapse uncritically into thinking of institutions of higher education—or, for that matter, of institutions of any kind—as mechanical things, machines, or objects; we lose our essential awareness that institutions and their organizational elements (e.g., schools, divisions, sectors, departments, programs) are structured communities of people. “The administration,” for example, [...]
T he promise of transformation differentiates the purposes of liberal education from those of more mundane—and commonly overrated—cognitive activities such as memorizing, out-of- time and therefore just-in-time studying, and cramming to pass exams. Embedded deeply in the idea of college as a learning experience is the belief that the person who graduates should be [...]
