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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Before López’s current appointment, she served in a similar role as an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Houston.

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President moves: Recent spate of leaders to announce retirement boast impressive résumés

University Business

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. Other notable accomplishments include diversifying the student body, ensuring continued financial stability and maintaining in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Inside Higher Ed

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.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy. history survey) without discussion labs or supplemental instruction sessions, that have outsize DFW rates. Inequities pervade American higher education.

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Discover TikTok’s Search Culture: Insights into How Younger Generations Seek Information

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Reading Time: 10 minutes It is not a secret that since its release in 2016, TikTok has become one of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, particularly among younger demographics. Before diving into TikTok’s search engine potential, it is important to understand how the platform’s algorithm works. With over 3.5

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Over all, they described “similar numbers of growing and failing programs” and suggested that lowering the failure rate “would be a huge step forward for higher education.” percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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President moves: New hires, plus retiring leaders being lauded for their pandemic strategy

University Business

Among higher education’s most recent presidential comings and goings, we have a mix of vetted academics and professionals who draw on the wealth of their outside experience. Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees.