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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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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

Faculty Focus

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

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Report: International graduate student enrollment booms by 100% since the pandemic

University Business

Since fall 2018, doctoral program enrollment among international students has increased by 9.7%. While “other fields” had the highest percentage over the past one-year period, public administration and services had the second with 14% and arts and humanities had the third with 12%. decrease in enrollment in fall 2022.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. 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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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Lee joined the faculty at Duke University in 2018 and is pleased to report that Duke recently established a minor in Asian American Studies. It makes us see the humanity in each other. and Canada.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Elgeddawy, Mohamed (2018). Education Sciences 12, no.

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