Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 30, 2024

Inbound Strategies for Higher Education in the Face of Yahoo and Google Mail Updates In the always-evolving digital landscape, schools reaching out to potential students will face fresh challenges with upcoming changes in popular email platforms like Yahoo and Google Mail.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: A couple of years ago, a University of Minnesota business student who had spent the summer playing online poker shared a concern with Lisa Novack, the university’s career development director. The student, who would soon graduate, fretted that prospective employers might look unfavorably on the summer employment gap.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. Applied humanities education prepares students to use humanities knowledge and methods in practice rather than only in theory. Why is fiction particularly useful in such a class?

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

High school students with autism are attending college in greater numbers, thanks to new ac ademic and emotional support services designed specifically for them. Today there are approximately 75 support programs offered for neurodiverse students in 29 states, mostly at four-year colleges.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

When asked more specifically on what faculty should do to combat potential cheating from using generative AI, the panel seemed in agreeance on an answer: educate your students on how to responsibly use AI. Although I read numerous articles and watched hours of YouTube videos, I was still confused as to how generative AI worked.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

How do we measure the importance of international students to higher education? The best ones know that everything they do is at the service of education, from the level of the changed minds and lives of students to the research which broadens and deepens knowledge and sometimes changes our world. And so it is with calculating value.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

In January 2022, Wiline Pangle, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at Central Michigan University (CMU), collaborated with 14 of her colleagues to create an innovative new program aimed at equipping students with often overlooked yet essential skills needed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The likelihood of obtaining a college degree within the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) after receiving a low grade in just one introductory course is disproportionately lower for underrepresented female students compared to White male students, causing a diversity gap and talent loss in such fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Then, a day later, and in an apparent effort not to be left out of the AI–chat bot party, Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing search engine. In her mind, the university’s academic integrity policy covered instances in which students, for example, copied or misrepresented work as their own.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. One such opportunity is for students to become involved in research. An additional opportunity to involve students in research could be by embedding it directly into the curriculum via course-based research. Benefits and barriers.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Image: At New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, the seven-year-old Vertically Integrated Projects program has grown from five teams to almost 50, involving hundreds of students each semester. Each team is managed by one faculty adviser who supervises and grades students throughout the project.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Today’s college students are demographically, ideologically, neurologically and culturally diverse, and diversity statements are seen as a way to recruit faculty and staff who will serve these students well. But we agree that we don’t have to resolve the dispute over diversity statements in order to help our students.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

I recall clearly that we undergraduates in the late 1960s were under pressure to major in engineering, business, pre-med, or pre-law. First, pressures on young people from middle school forward to concentrate in engineering, computer science, or business for job security only increased. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

She was the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering and is among the first African American women to become a full professor of engineering.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. Students learn to apply machine learning, text analytics, and artificial intelligence.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image: A study published this month adds to the many concerns about judging faculty members using student evaluations of their teaching. Researchers found gender bias after analyzing Clemson University student evaluations of 1,885 tenure-track and non-tenure-track educators from academic year 2018–19.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Chase’s experience and “transformational ideas … will elevate the student experience across the UH system,” added Khator, who is also president of UH. As she prepared to begin her new work at the tier-one public research university, Chase shared her perspective on making investments in student success.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. One such opportunity is for students to become involved in research. An additional opportunity to involve students in research could be by embedding it directly into the curriculum via course-based research. Benefits and barriers.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Image: The University of Wyoming is launching a new program focused on boosting enrollment and graduation rates among rural students in the state. The initiative will provide college-prep training to up to 2,000 high school students selected from 10 rural public schools, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

All of the projects will touch on one or more of the research areas, and four will also focus on promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and career opportunities to underrepresented students. This article was published in our September 2023 issue.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

However, as a former instructor of online courses, I have seen first-hand the power of introducing a librarian to a group of online students and how such exposure can lead to curiosity on a topic and deepen student learning. With that exposure, the librarian can suggest additional activities and anticipate student reference needs.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Cybersecurity, like many STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, has been historically male-dominated and lacks diversity. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is awarding $20 million in grants to four academic institutions that serve diverse student populations.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. ChatGPT-3 is not a search engine. None of it was real.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

However, colleges and universities offering premium programs in specific trades like engineering and agriculture helped diversify the list. Some consulting firms begin their marketing tactics early in these top-flight college students’ academic careers. faculty, according to one 2022 study published in Nature.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2023

The participating students in the program took a computational thinking assessment which informed what version of a computer science curriculum they are receiving. The primary challenge with the coupling of computationally talented college students with K-12 schools is a logistical one. Not everyone knows or understands that.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Students are selected as program scholars through an application process. They represent a wide range of majors, including international business, marketing, accounting, engineering, health care management, interior design, and architecture. In addition, students gain internship experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Employment in science, technology, engineering and math has grown over the years, with about 24 percent of the U.S.’s ’s workforce in STEM in 2021, but only 18 percent of the field at that time identified as women, according to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Operating like a consulting agency, Eidos, which UPenn calls “a first-of-its-kind academic social entrepreneurship lab,” engages students and faculty across disciplines and from different UPenn schools, outside businesses, and organizations to work together and offer diverse perspectives aimed at improving LGBTQ+ health initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

million through the Driving Change initiative , a project that supports building more inclusive learning environments in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in higher education. The project will also include internship programs for STEM students. . Six universities will each receive $2.5

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SEO is all about boosting your school’s awareness and online search visibility—two things that are essential as parents turn to online search engines for information about prospective schools. Combined with a strong social media strategy for private schools , your SEO efforts will serve to bolster your student recruitment strategy.

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ACRLog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a first year Academic Librarian, I have become immersed in a project at Cal State University, Northridge (CSUN) with Lisa Cheby, the Education Librarian, Yi Ding, the Online Instruction Coordinator & Director of Affordable Learning Solutions, and Christina Mayberry, the Science & Engineering Librarian.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A well-crafted SEO strategy that includes on-page SEO techniques can significantly boost the visibility of your school’s web content, allowing you to be seen by your target audience on the search engine results page. This, in turn, can help you connect with prospects who your content may further draw in.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Image: About a decade ago, Amin Azzam, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, often told his medical students not to research health information on Wikipedia out of concern for the website’s reliability. But a student once looked at him “like he was crazy,” which made him rethink that stance.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 6, 2023

Their unfiltered experiences are meant to inspire current students to be resilient and achieve success through lifelong learning, say alumni who worked on the project. As the book idea was set into motion, collecting stories and sharing them as inspiration for today’s students gave Dowd-Burton focus and purpose, she says. Geoffrey L.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Instead of or in addition to minors, higher education stakeholders may want to consider partnering with employers—both public and private—to create pathways toward certifications specifically designed to help students enter the workforce with higher-paying jobs. This shift in thinking is not new.

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