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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

increase the previous year, between Fall 2019 and Fall 2020, and five years of gradual increases. in Fall 2016 to 87.4% Increases in other fields were relatively small, including “other fields,” (2.9%), health sciences (0.8%), and mathematics and computer sciences (0.3%). This comes after a 12.9% in Fall 2020.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. But they really couldn’t say how big a factor, because the survey period of July 2019 to June 2020 covered just the first—albeit intense—few months of the pandemic. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Highlights from Higher Ed: Lower-Income Enrollment Woes, Segregation by Major, War’s Effect on Course Selection, and Pandemic-Era Transfers

Liaison International

Since 2016, more than 125 U.S. For example, men are more likely to enroll in computer science and engineering programs; women are more likely to opt for education and healthcare programs. “In In 2020, men graduated with bachelor’s degrees in computer science and engineering at a rate more than quadruple that of women.

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We need to rethink how we encourage and measure international student entrepreneurship?

HEPI

They include Ali Sayadi Zadeh who graduated in 2016 and set up a business that exports fertilisers and lubricants, Denny Song who founded a company specialising in South Korean food and Javier Galloway who created a new platform that helps customers review individual menu items. million jobs in Germany.

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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

Recognizing the role of ethnic culture in classroom success is crucial for creating meaningful learning experiences (Thompson, Kirby, & Smith, 2016). 2016), and culturally responsive teaching is a powerful tool for creating robust learning environments (Byrd, 2016). She is also the founder of Neuroculture. & Romero, M.

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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

Recognizing the role of ethnic culture in classroom success is crucial for creating meaningful learning experiences (Thompson, Kirby, & Smith, 2016). 2016), and culturally responsive teaching is a powerful tool for creating robust learning environments (Byrd, 2016). She is also the founder of Neuroculture. & Romero, M.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

Then I slowly started analyzing it before I left in 2016, and I’ve been analyzing data ever since. I believe it was 2019 when I created something called the Price to Earnings Premium. Unsurprisingly, the STEM fields, like computer science, have been skyrocketing, not only in terms of outcomes, but also in terms of employment.