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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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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. .

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. Still, it’s not entirely clear why students are returning to higher education now—or whether the trend is likely to continue into this fall.

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Liberal Arts and Servile Arts

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive.

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Ten campus living-learning communities to model

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Living-learning communities are common in the sphere of higher education as intimate, specialized spaces for students looking to establish community in on-campus residence halls. A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts.

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Claudine Gay to become first Black president of Harvard

Inside Higher Ed

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. “My mom became a registered nurse and my dad a civil engineer. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year. She earned her Ph.D. She earned her Ph.D.

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