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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

How might this precept apply to higher education? The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. Priorities conflict.