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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. He attended a school that specialized in science and while still a teenager in 1983 came alone to the United States to pursue higher education. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.” Thankfully, he moved on to Plan B. “I

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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. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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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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Looming Dutch election leaves stakeholders sitting in first gear

The PIE News

Speaking to The PIE, Jorrit Snijder, Breda University of Applied Sciences ’ President, points out that the debate that’s been going on since the housing crisis has left behind some key context. “The De Vries said they’re adapting as best they can, but universities have to stand up in order to be taken seriously in the debate.

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Netherlands uni chairs call for stop to curbing int’l students

The PIE News

A group of university chairs in the Netherlands has called for figures in parliament to stop attacking international students and the prospect of their recruitment. The letter , written in the popular daily newspaper NRC, describes that an onslaught on international student recruitment will only help to “increase national labour shortages”.

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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. times as many as the 2005/06 figure.

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Preparing the community for in-demand careers

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

Half of Lorain County families have someone who has taken classes at LCCC or the University Partnership. LCCC offers Ohio’s only associate of applied science and bachelor of applied science degrees in microelectronic manufacturing , preparing students for work in this growing semiconductor industry.