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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 percent after growing 3 percent in 2020 and 2.4 Computer science, the sixth most popular major, saw significant growth, increasing by 10.4 percent, and in 2021, it decreased by 6.7

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

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percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. That’s 2,974 fewer than in 2020. awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

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The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? A survey conducted in 2020 found that just 4 percent of Harvard seniors planned to enter public service or work at a nonprofit.

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International students are coming back to U.S. campuses

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increased by 4 percent in the 2021–22 academic year and an additional 9 percent this fall, following a 15 percent drop in 2020–21. In 2020–21, new international enrollments in U.S. That follows a nearly 15 percent drop in 2020–21. The total number of international students in the U.S. institutions.

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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. That experience does not hint at the flood of traffic that, in the moment of an attack, crashes the victim computer. There, they act on teams as government officials facing real-world cyberattacks. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

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” One panel on the cost of academic dissent featured an empty chair for Mike Adams, a professor who died by suicide in 2020 after the University of North Carolina at Wilmington paid him $504,000 to retire following several speech-based controversies. Let’s talk about bank embezzlement, right?’”