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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education. Missing Seats at Important Tables.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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Struggling to develop AI programs? Look no further than these 4 schools

University Business

Fortunately for Carnegie Mellon University students, the R1 university beat the marketplace to the punch, offering its first bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence in 2018. But the implementation of such a degree iis still catching up nationwide. University of Washington The Paul G.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. These two STEM fields, in particular, are dominated by male workers and lack gender diversity.

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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,

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International student enrollment post-pandemic hits biggest stride, tops 1 million

University Business

The most recent data still puts current enrollment 40,000 shy of the 2018-19 academic year. At approximately 467,000 students, there are 120,000 more graduate-level students than undergraduate students. As strong as enrollment has bounced back, current numbers still slouch to pre-pandemic levels. According to the U.S.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

From a cultural perspective, Jocson (2018) determined that ethnographic application supports racially and cultural and minority student learning. Implications for practice, research, and policy toward the future of education highlight the importance of connecting academics to workforce development (Jocson, 2018). IGI Global.