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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

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” It goes on, “Even a few decades ago, no one could have fully anticipated future investments in computer science, quantum computing, or climate science—fields where Princeton is now a leader.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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

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Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” In history, degrees conferred fell from 884 to 725. Direct Impact.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

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The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. CMU-Africa was established as CMU-Rwanda in 2011 as a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Pittsburgh-based university renowned for its engineering and technology programs.

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Fine arts, communications degrees qualify as STEM for immigrants

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degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. For example, in 2016, when John Karl Scholz was dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he sought to reclassify his institution’s economics program.

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