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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

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

Inside Higher Ed

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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Report: International graduate student enrollment booms by 100% since the pandemic

University Business

since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that since fall 2020, total graduate enrollment has grown by 1.2% , undercut by a 1.2% The positive trend of international graduate students enrolling in the U.S. While the U.S.

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

Faculty Focus

2020), I am already grateful for customer service chat bots that allow me to schedule kids’ doctor appointments while waiting in carpool pick-up lines, and for automated digital writing assistants that catch my grammar and spelling errors as I madly fire off a manuscript between committee meetings and fixing dinner.

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South Africa’s Advtech Group to enter healthcare

The PIE News

Some of the brands by Advtech include Crawford Schools, Trinityhouse and Varsity College, which operates campuses and offers distance-based learning in various fields, including degrees in Arts, Commerce, Law, Accounting, and Computer Science. One in eight nurses is working in a different country from where they were trained.