Arts & Humanities GFG
A Google Faculty Group (GFG) for Arts & Humanities faculty & staff to connect, collaborate, and inno...
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Prompting for Graphic Design
Generative artificial intelligence tools are rapidly shifting graphic design education away from technical software execution and toward conceptual direction and prompt engineering. How are your visual arts departments balancing the teaching of found...
High Ed_Google Classroom Learning Circle
Learning OutcomesBy the end of the session, participants will be able to:Create and manage a Google ClassroomAdd students and co-teachersOrganise class materials effectivelyCreate assignments, quizzes and announcementsMonitor submissions and provide ...
The Scheduling Challenges of Interprofessional Education
Interprofessional education (IPE)—where students from different fields like nursing, pharmacy, and medicine train together—is vital for reducing medical errors, yet accommodating conflicting department schedules remains a massive logistical hurdle. H...
Agency Law and Agentic AI
Artificial intelligence agents—autonomous software systems capable of independently making commercial transactions—are increasingly executing unfavorable corporate vendor contracts without direct human oversight. How should business school curricula ...
Building Autonomous Vehicles
Training the neural networks—the complex AI algorithms—that safely steer autonomous vehicles requires testing them against millions of rare driving anomalies, a process that demands massive cloud computing budgets. How can software engineering depart...
Protecting Open-Access Research from Commercial AI Scrapers
Rapidly accelerating commercial data-mining tools often scrap institutional digital scholarship repositories without explicit permission, raising significant concerns regarding copyright and intellectual property control. In what ways can university ...
Bridging the Gap: Introducing Cutting-Edge Anomalies in Foundational Labs
When a major breakthrough occurs—like a sudden discovery in material physics that challenges traditional models—there is an immediate temptation to bring that excitement into the undergraduate classroom. However, doing so often collides with the real...
Pedagogical Strategy in the Wake of the Replication Crisis
As the replication crisis continues to reshape the behavioral and social sciences, we face a distinct pedagogical challenge when introducing students to foundational literature. How do you balance teaching classic, highly influential theories that ma...
The Student Swirl
The “student swirl” — a pattern of undergraduates moving among institutions before earning a degree — has been part of higher-ed conversations for more than a decade. But today’s swirl looks different. It now encompasses a far broader population: adu...
Improving Student ROI and Economic Mobility
The pressure on higher education to prove its worth has never been greater. For community colleges and other broad-access institutions that center on economic mobility, the stakes are especially high. But with public skepticism rising and only a frac...
The Solutions to College Completion Challenges Start in K–12
We need to treat college readiness as a system (re)design issue. Read here to learn more.
Beyond Belonging: Do Students Feel They Matter on Campus?
Most students say there is someone on campus who knows them in a meaningful way, but a significant minority feel invisible. To read the full article, read here.
Redefining the Ledger: The Push for Equity-Minded Workload Reform
The hidden economy of academic labor is gaining unprecedented visibility. A comprehensive report from the American Council on Education, drawing on data from the National Science Foundation-funded Faculty Workload and Rewards Project, highlights how ...
Bridging the Support Gap: What Actually Drives Professional Identity in Graduate Engineering Program
The global shortage of qualified engineering personnel has shifted institutional focus toward a critical question: what keeps advanced students committed to the field? While recruitment pipelines matter, long-term retention hinges heavily on how stud...
Higher Ed Leaders for North America [ONLY]
NOTE: This invitation is ONLY for higher education leaders that make decisions for the college or university (not Higher Ed faculty). Subject: Join us at the 2026 Google for Education Leader Series: Higher Education Topic: Elevating Faculty, Le...
Navigating the Collection Chasm: Curation Under Content Restrictions
A profound structural shift is occurring in how academic resources are managed, preserved, and accessed on university campuses. The American Historical Association’s recent declaration opposing sweeping course content restrictions at Texas Tech Unive...
Human Intelligence in the Machine Age: Redesigning Health and Medical Curricula
Integrating artificial intelligence and mixed reality into health and medicine programs has brought clinical education to a major crossroads. As detailed in recent initiatives at the University of Miami, the future of training frontline clinicians re...
The Space Between the Lines: Why the Best Part of the Humanities Can’t Be Rubriced
Those working in academia are often pressured to turn the messy, profound magic of the humanities into clean, predictable, measurable data points. They are told to measure learning through propositional truths—the concrete facts, the dates, and the c...
Benchmarking AI Readiness: Global Policy & Guidance Workshop
Benchmarking AI Readiness: Global Policy & Guidance Workshop: In an era of rapid technological change, institutional leaders are moving beyond reactive rules and toward a strategic roadmap that firmly prioritizes learning and cognition. Discover how...
Evidence over Instinct: Shifting the Paradigm on Career Readiness
The traditional, straightforward pipeline of higher education—where a student earns a credential, steps into a prescribed job, and enjoys long-term career stability—is increasingly unaligned with reality. Automation is absorbing entry-level operation...
Unlocking Ancient Mysteries: How Synchrotron Imaging Just Rewrote Mammalian History
For a long time, figuring out exactly how the earliest ancestors of mammals reproduced was stuck in a scientific blind spot. Because soft-shelled eggs rarely fossilize, researchers lacked direct evidence. However, a stunning new find has changed ever...
Moving Beyond the Afterthought Model of Teaching Assistant Development
Teaching assistants and tutors often find themselves in an unintended institutional paradox: positioned as domain experts to the undergraduates they teach, yet remaining novices in the art and science of instruction. A recent themed issue in the Jour...
The Tenure Tightrope: Balancing Academic Freedom with Institutional Fit
The structural role of tenure is a popular talking point in university hallways and legislative chambers alike, but the conversation is shifting. Instead of viewing tenure as a static job benefit, a recent analysis in the Journal of Teaching in Socia...
Teaching the Next Generation of Language Educators How Adults Actually Learn
The data supports what many in the field of second language education have long known: the way languages are traditionally taught in schools—the rigid, lockstep march through textbook grammar, memorizing lists of occupations, and aiming for the vague...
The Synthesis Paradox: Deconstructing the Illusions of Empathic AI
A provocative debate is unfolding within behavioral science that directly challenges how we evaluate human connection and digital simulation. Recent experimental studies indicate that large language models (LLMs) are frequently rated as more compassi...
Reimagining Agribusiness Education: Inspiring the Next Generation Through eLearning
Hello everyone, Food is one of humanity’s most fundamental needs, yet agriculture is often overlooked as a career pathway by younger generations. When students think about future careers, they frequently aspire to become engineers, IT profession...
Redefining the Boundaries of Speech: Judicial Intervention at West Point
For business and law faculty navigating the delicate intersection of public employment, institutional brand management, and academic freedom, a federal court ruling in New York has introduced a significant precedent. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel ...
Why Students Aren’t All In on AI—And What They Want From Colleges
New Student Voice data reveal students are embracing AI as a learning tool while worrying about dependence, career disruption and inconsistent institutional responses. See the full article here.
Delivering postsecondary value for all students
The Gates Foundation’s work in postsecondary education is predicated on the belief that all students should have the opportunities and support they need to pursue a post-high school credential that has value in the labor market. In this video, Patric...
Mitigating Generative Hallucinations in Student Literature Reviews
The rise of "phantom" or entirely fabricated academic citations in student research papers forces a shift from detecting plagiarism to verifying existence. What specific scaffolding strategies can instructional designers embed into early research mod...
