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

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Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. percent decline in Ph.D.s

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

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million who enrolled in fall 2020, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began. In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5 million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 While the number still remains well below the 2.49

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

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The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Notre Dame is one of several institutions experimenting with unconventional cybersecurity awareness training in the form of festivals, art installations and role-playing games. Cybersecurity Festivals. Cyberthreats are the “No.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

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In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

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From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Five Things You Should Know About Connecting Democracy and the Curriculum

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As data from the 2020 election show, faculty frequently served as the most significant communicators of everything from voter registration materials to discussions about critical political issues. The tide seems to be turning. Students have opportunities to play leadership roles not only in voter mobilization work but issue activism.

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Engaging Students in Research

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The types of research-related opportunities available to students will differ based on the type of institution (interested readers may refer to our previous article, “ Writing Your First Grant ,” (Cappon & Kennette, 2022) for tips to secure some funding). We will share additional data from this survey throughout this article.

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