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

Inside Higher Ed

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. ” No argument from me on this one.

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

Inside Higher Ed

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

University Business

And since fall 2019, enrollment across both undergraduate and graduate programs has decreased by 5.8%. 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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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Additionally, research asserts that specific practices associated with growth mindset highly impact student motivation, learning, and achievement (Dweck, 2008; Barber, van Oostveen, and Childs, 2019). As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts. Nkealah, N.

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To Mitigate ChatGPT Plagiarism Look No Further than its References

Faculty Focus

Most faculty, like myself, do not have a computer science background but need to mitigate the issues technology could present in our courses. As human beings, we are designed to find shortcuts and that has led to great innovation. The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. OpenAI Blog.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

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.