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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Last year, he hired another faculty person. there were protests on campus.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

These luminaries are concerned about how to teach computer science today, given the breakneck pace of developments, faculty shortages and an unrealized need to integrate ethics into the curriculum. “It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’

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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.

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Deep Internationalization & Infrastructure

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Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore (a National University of Singapore/Duke University joint venture). Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore (a Nanyang Technological University/Imperial College London joint venture). Global Innovation Exchange in Seattle (a University of Washington/Tsinghua University joint venture).

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

A Yale-trained architect with an NYU Stern MBA, generously shared her thoughts about how post-pandemic colleges and universities might rethink some basic assumptions about space allocation and utilization in light of current concerns over cost, eye-appeal, fit, sustainability, and especially the growing impact of remote work and remote learning.

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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey

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That's the responsibility of medical schools, right? They're underperforming in terms of where we would want to see performance, but where are they in terms of the resources that they have allocated to them? Whose responsibility is it? I would argue it's everyone's responsibility. We have to do it all across the board, right?

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Federal earmarks a boon for higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa received a total of $95 million, including $50 million for an endowment fund to support the recruitment and retention of science and engineering faculty. “The money itself can be transformational for individual schools.”