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Coursera Launches Course Builder: Organizations Can Now Quickly Create and Launch Custom Courses at Scale

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By Shravan Goli In a fast-changing market, organizations will need to create, update, and deploy learning resources that keep pace with the rate of change. Authors can seamlessly blend modules from participating world-class industry and academic partners on Coursera with content from experts in their own organization.

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Hewlett Foundation Awards $20M to Diversify Cybersecurity Field

Insight Into Diversity

Additionally, a 2019 report by the same organization, “ Women in Cybersecurity ,” found that women hold only 24 percent of cybersecurity positions. 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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UPenn’s ‘Eidos’ Project Tackles LGBTQ+ Health Inequity, Discrimination

Insight Into Diversity

All too often, LGBTQ+ people experience discrimination, stigma, and prejudice when seeking and receiving health care, but a new project called the Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative, housed in the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), aims to change that. In 2020, for every $100 awarded by U.S.

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Pell Grant Expansion Extends Educational Opportunities to Thousands of Incarcerated Students

Insight Into Diversity

This policy took effect in July 2023, but it is now beginning to bear fruit with the creation of dozens of new corrections education programs led by colleges and universities. Incarcerated students at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, participate in the California State University, Los Angeles Lancaster Prison Program.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Those are the kinds of organizations that I do best in, and I regret that this was not one of them.” It can foster important relationships at the state and federal levels, with other institutions, with friends and donors, and with like-minded organizations that might be new partners to us.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. To educate for impact, a university evolves and does it within its core values. That’s the roadmap. Brian Whitson.

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Why Can’t Your Real-World Project Live in the Real World?

Faculty Focus

Jodi’s comments put this into perspective: I felt like the classes never quite got there because there couldn’t possibly have been enough time for the students to learn the organization and for us to think through precisely what we needed. The responsibility of the partner, as Jodi describes, should become “more high-level.”