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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Winn is also a former elementary and high school English teacher, who examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture — and how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

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New Analysis of Ph.D. Debt, Job Placements

Inside Higher Ed

A new analysis of federal Survey of Earned Doctorates data by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds a substantial racial divide in who is accumulating debt in doctoral studies: from 2015 to 2020, approximately 55 percent of Native American and Black students with a Ph.D. From 1990 to 2020, the share of new arts and humanities Ph.D.s

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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Music Opens Doorway to Opportunity for Incarcerated Youth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Melody speaks to all humans, rhythm speaks to everyone on the planet. Music takes you out of your circumstances of life,” said Sean Slade, a music producer and associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music. Music is the universal language.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

in 2015,” ChatGPT replied in a sample presented on the OpenAI website. If Columbus arrived in the US in 2015 … he might be surprised to find out that many people don’t view him as a hero anymore; in fact, some people argue that he was a brutal conqueror who enslaved and killed native people. Remind Students to Think.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Inside Higher Ed

The latter also requires some combination of artistic creativity, practical skill and inventiveness, as observable in Leonardo’s command of anatomy, painting, drawing, mathematics, architecture, engineering, music and military science (to keep the list short). Clearly it is a growing field.

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