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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Feb. 9th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,    In today’s newsletter, we share multiple resources and articles focusing on GenAI in research. If this topic is of interest to you, make sure to attend our upcoming AI Roundtable on research integrity (see below for more details).    Also, ICYMI – HESA recently launched its AI Advisory Services. If your institution is struggling to develop its response to this new technology, or is simply in search of an extra hand, we might be able to help. Reach

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February 9, 2024 No Comments

The New Model University

You may have heard once or twice about Arizona State University and how innovative it is. You probably don’t know the half of it. Today I am going to rectify that because it may be the institution from which Canadian universities need to learn the most over the next few years. A lot of the initial attention to what ASU was doing differently focused on the way that faculties got rearranged in the early 2000s. The university still runs traditional

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February 7, 2024 5 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Feb. 2nd, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  Last Tuesday, we officially kicked off our 2024 series of AI Roundtables. If you missed it, make sure to catch the recording of the first session here. At the end of the session, we mentioned that we are planning a “community poster” session for our Pedagogy and Curriculum roundtable in April. During this “community poster” session, we’ll welcome faculty members, instructional designers, and others who want to share, in a short 8- or 10-min presentation (1

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February 2, 2024 No Comments

Update on University Finances

Last week, I wrote about college finances. Today I thought I would spend some time updating some of the more interesting graphs I’ve done over the past few years with respect to university finances.  I do quite a lot on university finances in HESA’s annual State of Post-Secondary Education, but over the years I have also done some slightly more bespoke takes that don’t make it into SPEC. And so, herewith, my 2024 update on those numbers. In Figure 1,

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January 31, 2024 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Jan. 26th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In today’s newsletter, we share articles touching on how marketing and communications offices can leverage Gen AI tools, and how these tools can be used to bridge equity gaps and better support student success. If you missed it in last week’s newsletter, HESA recently launched its AI Advisory Services. If your institution is struggling to develop its response to this new technology, or is simply in search of an extra hand, we might be able to help.

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January 26, 2024 No Comments

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