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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. in history. “I And in the U.S.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. Administered by the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, aerospace engineering students learned lessons in collaboration, communication and innovative thinking.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. I recall clearly that we undergraduates in the late 1960s were under pressure to major in engineering, business, pre-med, or pre-law. My pursuing the Ph.D. My pursuing the Ph.D.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For four years, she served as program coordinator for University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Diversity Initiative in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). One of López’s examinations centered on media representation of the DREAM Act of 2010. Diversity matters in education are not foreign to López either.

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New Analysis of Ph.D. Debt, Job Placements

Inside Higher Ed

in the natural sciences and engineering who graduate with no debt. the analysis showed differences between fields: between 2010 and 2020, history graduates were less likely to have a firm job commitment in academe than their counterparts in letters or in languages and literatures other than English. History Ph.D.s

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Wildlife Biology Professor Weaves Indigenous Heritage into Lessons

Insight Into Diversity

He attended three universities on the way to achieving his goal, but never had a professor of color teach any of his STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) classes. “I Another milestone in Gómez’s journey was the passage of Senate Bill 1070 in Arizona in 2010. For Gómez, getting to this place is personal.

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Celebrating Women in Tech at Liaison

Liaison International

Deb Erdner | Vice President, Operations Before coming to Liaison, Deb spent 10 years at Wilkes and PCOM, and since 2019, she’s served on the executive board at Wilkes School of Business and Engineering. Thank you to our panel for your candid participation and thank YOU for celebrating Women’s History Month with us!