University Business
APRIL 29, 2024
Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.
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Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
A person with a growth mindset views one’s position, intelligence, talents, and abilities as being controllable and learnable; a person with a fixed mindset views such traits as being unchangeable (Dweck 2008). In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 11, 2023
A person with a growth mindset views one’s position, intelligence, talents, and abilities as being controllable and learnable; a person with a fixed mindset views such traits as being unchangeable (Dweck 2008). In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
According to the original lawsuit, Stern became something of a thorn in Auburn’s side in 2008, when he worked with a local reporter on a story alleging that Auburn was accepting money from the Charles Koch Foundation in ways that undermined the economics department’s academic integrity. I’m going to hear about this.”
Faculty Focus
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. And these soft skills, among others, are so important for graduates to have in order to be competitive on the job market (Schultz, 2008; Succi & Canovi, 2020). Benefits and barriers.
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