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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Matthews in starting what was initially a monthly newsletter on Black Issues In Higher Education , we now know the power of pathways in helping Black boys like me go from being a nerdy high school student in Richmond, Virginia, to a tenured professor at a flagship state university where the governor once stood in the Schoolhouse Door.

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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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Research security: a vital aspect of Foreign and Direct Investment

HEPI

Midlands Innovation is a strategic partnership of eight research-intensive universities. 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.

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Inside Higher Ed

Science, as Paul Bloom, who has taught psychology at the University of Toronto and Yalehas noted , isn’t simply another way of knowing with equal epistemological status as religion. Zimring’s 2019 volume, What Science Is and How It Really Works , offers a somewhat different defense of science. It’s a methodology.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Inside Higher Ed

In 2019, during the last statewide assessment prior to the pandemic, just 34 percent of California students over all and 18 percent of Black students and 20 percent of Latino students met or exceeded the state’s math standards. So what does this mean for colleges and universities?

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Sustainability school faces backlash over fossil fuel funds

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In May, Stanford University announced it would open a new school funded by a gift of $1.1 Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. billion from private equity billionaire John Doerr, the second-largest donation ever made to an institution of higher education.