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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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UPenn’s ‘Eidos’ Project Tackles LGBTQ+ Health Inequity, Discrimination

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In 2020, for every $100 awarded by U.S. Eidos has connected Trace with experts across multiple university departments, including engineering, public health, business, and marketing, to assist in strengthening its business model and the application’s user experience. This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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

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The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. 2016), education (Calvert & Abadia, 2020; Frank & Kapila, 2017), and crisis management (Kwok et al., With a background in engineering, he is passionate about the use of technology in higher education. 2018; Zhao et al., & Abadia, R.

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Equity in the Classroom Leads to Greater Student Success

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To make content accessible to all different kinds of learners, Lange presents information in a variety of modalities — academic articles, book chapters, podcasts, and YouTube videos. Their success is inextricably linked to their students’ success.” ● This article was published in our March 2023 issue.

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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 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

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Black Alumni Share Life Lessons in Drexel University ‘Legacy’ Book

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Angela Dowd-Burton Angela Dowd-Burton, who attended Drexel in the 1970s — a decade that saw the university’s largest enrollment of Black students — was inspired to launch the project in 2020, at a time when she saw society struggling under the twin realities of the pandemic and social unrest and while she personally faced her husband’s illness.

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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. 2016), education (Calvert & Abadia, 2020; Frank & Kapila, 2017), and crisis management (Kwok et al., With a background in engineering, he is passionate about the use of technology in higher education. 2018; Zhao et al., & Abadia, R.