Mike Urmeneta, Ed.D.

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Awarded the Dean’s Medal at Northeastern University’s Doctoral Hooding Ceremony

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DEAN’S MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL WORK

The Dean’s Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Work is the highest honor awarded by the College of Professional Studies to a doctoral graduate. It was established to acknowledge exemplary academic achievement and to recognize demonstrated creativity.

The process for determining a recipient involves evaluating nominated candidates based on the following criteria: the degree of comprehension, innovation, and creativity; the scope and importance of the work to a field of study; and the caliber of writing. Faculty advisors from all three doctoral programs are invited to nominate students whose final doctoral work they deem exceptional. A review committee composed of faculty from the college chooses three finalists, and the Dean of the College makes the final decision.

Imagine if your computer had an automatic reason-checker, alongside the spell-checker

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Select Quotes:

11:20 “Professor Chris Reed is working with the BBC on reason-checking tools, to supplement fact-checking, using AI techniques known as ‘argument technology’.” Select quotes below.

11:59 “And by argument we don’t mean row [squabble]. We mean a reasoned series of steps drawing to a conclusion”

12:36 “It brings together the facts, history, and context which are crucial for a clear picture. And it could highlight key facts during political debates.”

13:52 “Once we’ve got this ability to analyze the structure of argument and debate and build up these huge maps of all of the ideas, the bits of evidence, the claims and counterclaims, and how they all interact. The way in which a news organization makes reference to a scientific article. The way in which tweets follow up on that news article. The way in which those tweets are then referred to by other news sources and that whole train is then picked up in a formal discussion in parliament and then reported back into the media. There’s this web of argumentation and debate…”

14:28 “…and that web, if we can make it available to people, if we can surface the arguments and the disagreements and the evidence and indeed the counter-evidence, then perhaps we can start to tackle some of these deep societal issues like misinformation and fake news”

15:25 “Imagine if your computer had an automatic reason-checker, alongside the spell-checker. It could help you construct stronger arguments and see things from other perspectives.”

16:03 “Like fact-checkers, argument AI is more about clarifying and adding context than proving points right or wrong. When intelligence analysts discuss potential threats, AI could join the conversation, challenging their arguments, to avoid unnecessary conflicts.”

Process Flow Diagrams – Enrollment Operations Example

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Why create process flow diagrams? Because it helps to have an official way of doing things. It helps with the onboarding of new employees. Having documented process flows forces you to sit down with all the stakeholders and reexamine the routine and its assumptions. What processes are dependent on others?
What processes can be run concurrently? What processes can be eliminated or replaced? Who needs to be involved? Where can time be saved? Here is a sample.

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