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The 5 subjects proven to give undergrads the best wage premium

University Business

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

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

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). As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

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). As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

That’s the largest increase since 2008. Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors. The intensifying crisis of the humanities. The decline in the number of humanities majors—by half over the past decade—is old news. million in federal relief funding.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

” But CMU-Africa has been followed by a cloud of controversy over its partnership with a Rwandan government led by president Paul Kagame, who has been accused of a litany of human rights abuses. Jeffrey Williams, an English professor at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, said he opposed CMU’s partnership with the Rwandan government.