Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.

Is Student Loneliness the New Normal? A new Trellis Strategies report finds that more than half of college students feel lonely, highlighting the need for community and peer-to-peer support.

I can't help but think about the overuse of technology in their developmental years during COVID and the subsequent isolation that came with it.

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

I've listened the Clarks since I was in high school. I've seen them play a bazillion times, all over PA. Thrilled to hear them in the opening scene for The Pitt (S2, E1). Check them out www.clarksonline.com

AI generated image of a scientist made from what looks like a white latex balloon, holding a beaker, and standing next to a stack of books and microscope.

My 2025 according to ChatGPT

AI Monsters: An Application to Student and Faculty Knowledge and Perceptions of Generative AI Research into perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) by faculty and students outside of specific disciplines has been relatively sparse. With the recent release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there...

I presented our work @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social on Monster Theory and AI to a class of undergraduate students. They share a lot of the same fears as faculty around authenticity in education.

www.igi-global.com/chapter/ai-m...

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We held a gathering of K-12 teachers and librarians, administrators, higher ed faculty, and policy makers in September to talk about #AI in #ruraleducation. The final report is now available here sites.psu.edu/fair/
@drtiffpetricini.bsky.social

"While library work is rooted in human-centered service, the increasing reliance and integration of technology introduces new challenges and unintended consequences that move towards a post-human, technocentered environment."

🎉 Happy to announce a new publication.
The price of productivity: Burnout and technostress in academic library workers
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Question for #Academicsky - what academic profiles are the best to build? Research Gate, Web of Science, ORCID, Google Scholar....? I feel like there's so many and not enough information about what is actually useful or meaningful.

New pub - check it out!

"Even though instructors’ responses show they are exhausted and have limited time to keep up with technology changes, they are seemingly immune to techno-insecurity and undeterred by techno-complexity."

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Our new piece on Generative AI and Information Inequity, presented at iConference 2025 with @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social and Chuhao Wu

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💜 I love that pattern - will you please share? I must make myself a pair.

Examining Inclusivity in Flexible Learning Spaces: Expectations, Comfort, and Distractions - Innovative Higher Education Historically, classrooms have utilized stationary furniture, facing front toward a centralized instructor position, and limiting student-to-student interactions. Such classrooms often stem from design...

By your's truly, a publication - Examining Inclusivity in Flexible Learning Spaces: Expectations, Comfort, and Distractions

doi.org/10.1007/s107...

"OPM agreements are not regulated...to protect
students’ educational rights...this makes OPM contracts fundamentally different from other outsourced technical solutions"
@stzipf.bsky.social et al starting the year off strong with an online students' bill of rights:
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And our fourth paper published today: "Online Students' Bill of Rights" @ticas-org.bsky.social

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Financial Flows to Online Program Managers: Making "Sense" of the Convoluted Arrangement - The Institute for College Access & Success

Happy to share our third paper -"Financial Flows to Online Program Managers: Making 'Sense' of the Convoluted Arrangement"
ticas.org/accountabili...
@ticas-org.bsky.social

Announcement with white background, green line, navy footer, and my headshot stating "Pleased to be collaborating with AI In Education at the University of Oxford."

"Our goal is to establish a dynamic community of practice that will challenge and positively shape the future of AI in education."
aieou.web.ox.ac.uk/node/4111406

Our piece "Perceptions About Generative AI and ChatGPT Use by Faculty and Students" was recently published in Transformative Dialogues @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social journals.psu.edu/td/article/v...

While data for this study was collected in '23 findings from our '24 study show similar perceptions

TRETC 2025: De-mystifying AI in Education: Practical... View more about this event at TRETC 2025

Attention educators (K-Higher Ed)! 📢 January 20th—The Three Rivers Education Technology Conference in Pittsburgh has amazing sessions! I’m excited to present my workshop: De-mystifying AI in Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #ProfessionalDevelopment #Teachers #LifelongLearning #EducationConference

👋 I'd be happy to review your book.

Our findings align with those below: Faculty, staff, and librarians seem largely unconcerned about jobs, but students are extremely worried. How can we help them feel more secure for their AI-saturated futures? @stzipf.bsky.social #StudentVoices #edusky #aied #BlueskyThoughts #ResearchInsights

Is Grammarly AI? Notre Dame says yes The rapid introduction of generative AI has created a wild west of policies at colleges, complicating the use of long-standing editing and writing tools.

An interesting point about the difficulty students have navigating these tools under multiple policies.

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Please to share a new publication:

The intersection of internationalization efforts and diversity, equity, and inclusion: The case of U.S.-based international branch campuses.

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