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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

“It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ ’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A graduate of Morehouse College, Canton earned a master’s degree in Black studies at The Ohio State University and a doctorate in history at Temple University. There are a lot of guardrails around how these resources can be allocated and extended,” says Richardson. “He He absorbed that in a relatively short amount of time.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

These data include medical schools, which contribute about $23B to the Total Research column in 2014. Medical schools are organized and financed very differently from the rest of the university; conclusions drawn from these overall numbers should therefore be understood with that caveat. TOTAL RESEARCH. 4 year % change.