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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

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Finney, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 million who enrolled in fall 2020, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began. and 2 percent.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 Source: Authors’ elaboration using pooled data from the Graduate Outcomes Survey (Higher Education Statistics Agency), 2017/18-2018/19.

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

The PIE News

While the in-out debate had been covered deeply, the article detailed a letter sent to Sunday Times from 103 UK university vice-chancellors, who warned that leaving the EU would mean cutting the UK off from “unique support and established networks” on the continent. I don’t see the value. Who would pay the running costs?”

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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%