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Forging Engineering Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Electrical Engineering Education:   B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics with minors in Global Engineering Leadership and Arabic, University of Maryland Mentors:   Joyce D. Georgia Tech University; Dr. Ehsan Adeli, Stanford University Favour Nerrise was interested in engineering even before she knew what it was.

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Tenacity Propels African Immigrant Along Engineering Path

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Favour Nerrise was interested in engineering even before she knew what it was. Exposure to engineering doesn’t really exist for my family,” she said. Exposure to engineering doesn’t really exist for my family,” she said. Growing up, there wasn’t really anyone telling me that engineering was a path I could take.

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Generative AI & the Evolution of Academic Librarianship

ACRLog

I enjoyed the course and found the lesson on prompt engineering to be the most intriguing. One of the ways in which academic librarians can enter the generative AI realm in higher education is through teaching faculty and students prompt engineering. I tried this with my critical thinking class.

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First time attendee at ACRL 2023: Getting there can be enough 

ACRLog

March has gone by so fast, and that’s definitely in part because of the ACRL 2023 conference. Maybe you expected this post to be more of a conference report, and I will definitely shout out some of the work I saw later, but I start with this to normalize the mental health struggles that can come with conference attendance.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gaston Gayles directly addressed the toxicity of the constantly productive, highly competitive environment in academia. When that’s in place, they feel student success is definitely impacted—the students feel like they belong and can thrive there, and they have multiple people checking in on them,” said Youngblood.

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ABET Accreditation for higher education - everything you need to know

Creatrix Campus

ABET, when elaborated, stands for Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. It is an accreditation body that is based out in the USA designated to accredit engineering programs in line with the established professional quality standards. Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC). Computing Programs (CAC).

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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists. Humanities majors have skills and abilities that don’t easily translate into job titles like “nurse” or “engineer.” Their perspectives and mine oppose much of what Tavárez outlines.