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Community Colleges Chart Path Forward on AI Integration as Students Outpace Faculty Adoption

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges across the nation are grappling with how to integrate artificial intelligence into their operations and curricula as students increasingly use AI tools while faculty and administrators lag behind in adoption, according to a new report from Achieving the Dream.

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UNC Journalism Dean Navigates Diversity Mission Amid DEI Restrictions

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Born and raised in Brazil, Reis' academic background is in communication and journalism. Carolinas reputation for highly talented students, thought leadership by faculty members, dedicated professional staff and a deeply engaged and supportive alumni network is widely known and respected among its peers.

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'Need for Love More Profound, Harder than It's Ever Been'

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Lowery-Hart shared three elements required to transform institutional framework for leadership that’s built on love: culture, impact, and communication. To create impact, Lowery-Hart said the use of data and data summits can build an environment where data “creates curiosity and problem solving” within the faculty and leadership."

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Southern University Launches Student-Operated Radio Station WSUB 106.1 FM

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Southern University's Department of Mass Communication will begin operating its own radio station, WSUB 106.1 LPFM "The Bluff," following a cooperative agreement with the Louisiana Community Development Capital Fund. WSUB replaces WTQT, a long-running 24-hour gospel station that previously broadcast on the frequency.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

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The second goal of the program is to help build a community and culture at the institution that is attractive to prospective Native staff, faculty, and students. “As Being a Native-ready campus includes faculty and staff representation and ensuring that students feel welcomed, supported, with a sense of belonging, according to Shotton.

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Building a Foundation that Positively Impacts Los Angeles

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Her inspiration to take on the presidency of Cal State LA was fueled by its mission of fortifying the workforce of California, serving students who are first-generation, low-income and from underrepresented groups, having stellar faculty and committing to the student experience.

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The Case for Care: A Review of The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation

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In a lifeguard training course I took as a teenager, the instructor imparted critical lessons about the importance of strategic, coordinated communication throughout the process of a rescue. As McClure contends, shared governance that includes staff, faculty, students, and alumni is not a luxury or radical activism.