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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Geisler last summer.

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

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Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

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In 2019, for example, the Student Assembly submitted its own report advocating for increased emphasis in data fluency throughout the curriculum (note if you would like to see how exceptional W&M students are I recommend you read this report). In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

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awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. But they really couldn’t say how big a factor, because the survey period of July 2019 to June 2020 covered just the first—albeit intense—few months of the pandemic. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Why AI is about to become an integral part of higher education

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In July 2022, more than 500 tech and education leaders issued a call to action advocating for the expansion of computer science education opportunities for students. This might be the single most important challenge in the history of the U.S. Less than a year later, education technology has come much further than we anticipated.

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What this year's freshmen know and don't know

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Marist took over the annual project from Beloit College in 2019. Computer science: Created in 2004, Facebook has been active for the entire lives of the Class of 2026. The list is designed to help those in academe adjust their perspective to that of the new freshmen.

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The Midlife Crisis’s ‘Evil Younger Brother’: The Quarter-Life Crisis

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” More contemporary accounts, like Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 British Book of the Year–winning Queenie , also deals with the struggle to chart a direction in life, find a job and forge meaningful relationships and define an identity separate and apart from one’s parents’ expectations.