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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I then thought, because I was very good in math and science, perhaps I could become an engineer and design an airplane for others to pilot,” said Lim, who joined the NJIT in July 2022 as its ninth president and a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.”

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Health Information Collected Through Sweat: Academic Minute

Inside Higher Ed

Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University, discusses how collecting perspiration can help track our health. Today on the Academic Minute: Ahyeon Koh, associate professor in the Thomas J.

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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. The program includes a science fest, monthly virtual STEM nights, and a summer camp on campus.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one. For more than a decade, student interest and enrollments in these and adjacent fields have been increasing exponentially at the university.

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Responsibilities and gatekeeping in using language certificates for HE admission

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His strategy to deal with this lack of trust was his personal, informal language test: “Whenever it is possible, if the people are present, I do an assessment test. And is now studying electrical engineering.” He emphasised: “I don’t really care about documents, the skills have to back them up”. And went through with it, mercilessly.

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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. There are gated majors, typically in computer science, engineering and nursing, and, at my institution, business, that require students to earn a minimum GPA in an introductory course in order to declare a major.

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How Your School Can Use Conversion Tracking and Attribution in Marketing to Gain Key Insights and Drive Results

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By creating an ad that appears at the top of Google’s search engine results page (SERP), you can boost the visibility of your programs and motivate prospects to click on your website. Simply clicking on the call-to-action (CTA) allows users to view a form and share their information.