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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most anticipated annual issues each January is the Emerging Scholars edition that features outstanding scholars of color breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals. White House Honoree, Jan. 5, 2012). Remembering and rendering lives.

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2002, the Armory Foundation launched Armory College Prep (ACP) to help students training at the Armory Track attain a college degree at no cost to participants. Middle schoolers receive STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculum and high school application guidance. “We You can use those strategies anywhere.”

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Engaging Students in Research

Faculty Focus

2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). in cognitive psychology, and is passionate about the scholarship of teaching and learning. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Volume 3 , Boston, MA. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Volume 3 , Boston, MA.

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Engaging Students in Research

Faculty Focus

2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). in cognitive psychology, and is passionate about the scholarship of teaching and learning. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Volume 3 , Boston, MA. Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Volume 3 , Boston, MA.

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Entrepreneur Profile: How Sadiq Basha built the Edvoy empire

The PIE News

In 2002, Basha swapped bustling Chennai for rural Wales as his family chose to invest in his education abroad. “I also said ‘if you give me a small scholarship, I will bring in 10 students’ I was only 21 at the time but I was making a deal with him.”

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

Her book’s title is, of course, drawn from the 2002 bestseller, pastor Rick Warren’s blueprint for a Christian living in the 21 st century, a sort of “12-step”-like, 40-day program to introduce readers to Christian doctrine and faith.