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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. The interwoven relationship between workforce readiness, business and industrial development, and academia has existed since the beginning of public education in the United States (McNamara, 2009).

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

Moreover, neurodiversity in academia illustrates the paradoxical rhetoric in uniform instruction. The interwoven relationship between workforce readiness, business and industrial development, and academia has existed since the beginning of public education in the United States (McNamara, 2009).

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How an emerging economy is fueling an academic renaissance

University Business

economy is by boasting their computer science, data science and STEM-related tracks. But artificial intelligence’s potential has imposed competition on a much larger scale than academia. A surefire way institutions can show they are committed to placing students in academic programs beneficial to the U.S.

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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. but only 34% of the STEM workforce; they also earn only 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering, 24% in physics, and 21% in computer science.

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AI-generated essays are nothing to worry about (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

September 2022 was apparently the month artificial intelligence essay angst boiled over in academia, as various media outlets published opinion pieces lamenting the rise of AI writing systems that will ruin student writing and pave the way toward unprecedented levels of academic misconduct. Then, on Sept.

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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.

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

He said, “I am growing tired of standing on principle while watching academia get sacked by latter-day Visigoths,” and, “This is war and our job is to vanquish them.” Let’s avoid. Let’s talk about bank embezzlement, right?’”