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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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Claudine Gay to become first Black president of Harvard

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Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year.

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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. To spur people to consider the “noise” of a denial-of-service attack, Tanner Upthegrove, a media engineer at Virginia Tech, created Tesseract , an immersive audio experience. Is this Career Advice 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 ”? In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy.

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Sustainability school faces backlash over fossil fuel funds

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Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, earned her Ph.D. from Stanford in the 1980s and went on to become one of the leading scholars of climate science history, as well as a fierce advocate for the role of academia in advancing urgent climate solutions. But Oreskes refused the offer.

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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 the data science program, which just began in 2020, the number of degrees conferred went from eight in 2021 to 35 in 2022. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

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I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose.