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Ireland woos South Asians amid global policy shift

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In recent years, Ireland has been attracting South Asian students with its biggest market in the region, India, sending over 7,000 students to Ireland in 2023 from a mere 700 in 2013. “The major issue with Ireland is its brand awareness among students. .

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

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This endeavor was announced last week, with its first publication, The Journal of Ecological Engineering Design, released that week as well. "It Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7% We started something that I needed so much,” the 85-year-old said.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

gifted and talented); conversely, they are significantly overrepresented in special education, and in-school discipline and suspension rates (Ford & Moore, 2013; Hines et al., These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Creating career-ready graduates

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

In fact, LCCC has been training students in the field of microelectronic manufacturing (MEMS) since 2013 when we became the first community college to offer an associate degree in MEMS. The MEMS program alone has increased from three students in 2013 to 150 in 2021. LCCC’s MEMS students work on a microscopic scale while thinking big.

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How Cornell University Engages Donors With Cause-Based Crowdfunding “To Do the Greatest Good”

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Jon Gregory One such institution, Cornell University, has been a power user of the RNL ScaleFunder Crowdfunding platform since 2013, raising more than $5 million in support of a wide variety of projects.