Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
stzipf.bsky.social
Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
@stzipf.bsky.social
Avid knitter, sometimes swimmer, scholar of higher ed (personal thoughts and feelings)
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
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sites.psu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎉 Happy to announce a new publication.
The price of productivity: Burnout and technostress in academic library workers
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authors.elsevier.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
June 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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."

celt.miamioh.edu/index.php/JE...
Technostress and Its Influence on Instructors’ Technology Use | Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
celt.miamioh.edu
April 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our new piece on Generative AI and Information Inequity, presented at iConference 2025 with @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social and Chuhao Wu

publicera.kb.se/ir/article/v...
Using the information inequity framework to study GenAI equity: analysis of educational perspectives | Information Research an international electronic journal
publicera.kb.se
March 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
By your's truly, a publication - Examining Inclusivity in Flexible Learning Spaces: Expectations, Comfort, and Distractions

doi.org/10.1007/s107...
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...
doi.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
"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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ticas.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
And our fourth paper published today: "Online Students' Bill of Rights" @ticas-org.bsky.social

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ticas.org
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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
Financial Flows to Online Program Managers: Making "Sense" of the Convoluted Arrangement - The Institute for College Access & Success
ticas.org
January 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"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
January 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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
journals.psu.edu
January 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
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
TRETC 2025: De-mystifying AI in Education: Practical...
View more about this event at TRETC 2025
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December 31, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Sarah T. Zipf, Ph.D.
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
December 6, 2024 at 12:45 AM
An interesting point about the difficulty students have navigating these tools under multiple policies.

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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.
www.insidehighered.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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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November 6, 2023 at 5:05 PM