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Exciting news for all my higher education colleagues!
ByMichael๐ข Check out this article by Karen Webber, President of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and Professor Emeritus in the McBee Institute of Higher Education at The University of Georgia, and Henry Zheng, Vice Provost of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning at Carnegie Mellon University, about the implications of AI in higher education for Institutional…
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My Article on AI in the AIR Professional File
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Pope Leo XIV Identified the Right Problem
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