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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.

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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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Higher Education forecast for 2023

Kortext University Leaders' Blog

With the door to 2022 shut firmly behind us, it’s time to step off the doorstep, out into the open that is 2023 and explore four things that we think will be on the horizon for higher education in 2023. Change the landscape of higher education as we know it. Augar Report. Artificial Intelligence. Get better.

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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed? Nothing about the shift of higher education from a public to a private good? Nothing about public disinvestment?

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Wentworth Institute of Technology to Drop Pre-Calculus Admissions Requirement for STEM Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those looking to apply to Wentworth are required to have four years of English, a mathematics course on the level of Algebra II, and one laboratory science course under their belt. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, less than half of U.S. And only 16% of graduates had completed calculus that year.

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although the data shows higher first-time enrollment rates as a whole, for strictly U.S. increase the previous year, between Fall 2019 and Fall 2020, and five years of gradual increases. citizens and permanent residents – domestic students – first-time graduate enrollment in general declined by 4%. This comes after a 12.9%

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. It’s proven to be the right call.