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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. I’ve read his books and blogs for years. Don’t get me wrong.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.