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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. How can you be an engineer and not expect to have to give presentations? All rights reserved. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. White House Honoree, Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. Those of us concerned about student anxiety in our courses have history on our side. How can you be an engineer and not expect to have to give presentations? All rights reserved. Nowadays that seems to apply to all sorts of courses.

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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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Celebrating Women in Tech at Liaison

Liaison International

Deb Erdner | Vice President, Operations Before coming to Liaison, Deb spent 10 years at Wilkes and PCOM, and since 2019, she’s served on the executive board at Wilkes School of Business and Engineering. Thank you to our panel for your candid participation and thank YOU for celebrating Women’s History Month with us!

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Inside Higher Ed

There are similar examples from the history of scientific medicine, which includes wrenching examples of grotesque surgeries and disparate treatment of pain and illness rooted in ideas that were subsequently repudiated. Zimring’s 2019 volume, What Science Is and How It Really Works , offers a somewhat different defense of science.

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Research security: a vital aspect of Foreign and Direct Investment

HEPI

Universities in the Midlands and the pan-regional growth body, the Midlands Engine, are piloting how universities can work together to attract Foreign Direct Investment into regional Research and Development. Midlands Innovation is a strategic partnership of eight research-intensive universities.