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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Program: Mentorship and Workforce Development Charles R.

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Hewlett Foundation Awards $20M to Diversify Cybersecurity Field

Insight Into Diversity

Cybersecurity, like many STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, has been historically male-dominated and lacks diversity. FAMU will create a Cyber Policy Institute to integrate science-based and market-oriented domains of knowledge to help students develop expertise.

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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. Suggestions made so far are wide ranging.

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How Industry Micro-Credentials Are Transforming Higher Education 

Coursera blog

Faculty also have access, which has helped recruit internal champions for the program. Oulu University of Applied Sciences (OAMK) in Finland began offering Professional Certificates from Coursera as part of a program revamp for career-oriented learning.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

The fact is that Princeton is not a research powerhouse in the applied sciences. That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.” ” That “ Nothing divides America—economically, socially and politically—like a college degree.”

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) – Written evidence (12 January 2016). In a process that began in 2010 (see my Unsettling the University-Territory Relationship via Applied Sciences NYC ) a long-term experiment in reconfiguring the university-territory relationship was launched.