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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is dropping its pre-Calculus admissions requirement, opening its doors to a wider range of students looking to pursue STEM degrees there. high school graduates in 2019 (40%) had completed precalculus/mathematical analysis. And only 16% of graduates had completed calculus that year.

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The Vision and Strategies of Engineers Canada (EC)

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The Vision and Strategies of Engineers Canada (EC) editor Fri, 04/28/2023 - 06:51 Engineers will be essential in determining the future of Canadian society as the nation's population expands, urbanizes, and becomes more interconnected. EC is Canada's national organization that represents the engineering profession.

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MIT Exonerates Professor—After 3.5-Year Wait

Inside Higher Ed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally announced it had exonerated Ram Sasisekharan, a biological engineering professor, after a three-and-a-half-year research misconduct investigation.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2019; Morelot et al.,

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NSF Announces New Role to Address Sexual Assault, Harassment

Insight Into Diversity

She has served as the director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) program with the Peace Corps since 2019. Sexual harassment in scientific research has been a significant barrier for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), leading the U.S. Congress to take action.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). 2019; Morelot et al.,

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DeepLearning.AI and Coursera launch Generative AI for Everyone from AI pioneer Andrew Ng

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Professionals and business leaders will learn how to apply generative AI in their work and get ahead of the changes this technology will inevitably bring. Learn to use generative AI to help their day-to-day work and receive tips on effective prompt engineering.

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