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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background. Very similar to software engineering.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

I'm teaching people welding and diesel mechanics and electrical engineering, and those things are wonderful, but those students aren't reading a lot of classic literature. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003, after working at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

Lesson #7: Creative thinking Teach creativity through the lens of the Innovation Engine created by Stanford professor Tina Seelig. The Innovation Engine demonstrates that creativity can be cultivated by using a scaffolded set of ideas to shift and change the perspective of an idea to create something original. Kabat-Zinn, J (2003).

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

Lesson #7: Creative thinking Teach creativity through the lens of the Innovation Engine created by Stanford professor Tina Seelig. The Innovation Engine demonstrates that creativity can be cultivated by using a scaffolded set of ideas to shift and change the perspective of an idea to create something original. Kabat-Zinn, J (2003).

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Students left out of Texas A&M’s Qatar decision

The PIE News

Texas A&M University opened its Doha campus in 2003 in partnership with the state-led Qatar Foundation which funds all campus operations. The campus specialises in engineering and is one of six American universities that has a location in Doha’s Education City, all focussing on different areas of academic study.

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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Dr. Sheares Ashby previously served as Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, which she joined in 2015 and led a 700-person faculty across nearly 40 departments and programs through the pandemic, consistently advancing diversity and inclusion to achieve excellence in teaching and research.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down the measure, which was based on the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003. In Florida’s effort to engineer a political win, they have claimed credit for the specific changes we made to the official framework.”