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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim.

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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. Programming for fourth and fifth graders fosters a love of literature and technology. A lot of the training is focused on discipline, structure, being attentive. …

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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.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. CMU-Africa was established as CMU-Rwanda in 2011 as a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Pittsburgh-based university renowned for its engineering and technology programs.