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University of Alabama at Birmingham Awarded $4.6 Million Grant Renewal to Bolster Cybersecurity Workforce Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Yuliang Zhang, chair of UAB’s computer science department. million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs. 32 students will be selected over five years.

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0, Women represent 52.3

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

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. That was the first such dip since 2017, and experts said at the time that COVID-19 was probably a factor. percent decline in Ph.D.s

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Fresh student enrollment data suggests “encouraging” recovery

University Business

Liberal arts and sciences, which was the third most enrolled major, saw a sharp 4.8% Computer and information sciences, in sixth place, saw an impressive 10.4% Its 15 million enrolled graduate students is still higher than pre-pandemic 2017, which had nearly 14 million students enrolled. in 2020 and 3.5%

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“Not just a helicopter campus” – Coventry’s bid to maintain links with Wroc?aw campus

The PIE News

Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. ” In 2017, King’s College London suggested its research partnership already in place with Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, known as transCampus, could see it create a European campus.