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College Degree Still Sound Investment, Despite Rising Tuition

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Across 10 fields of study, engineering and computer science majors experienced the highest median returns, exceeding 13%, followed by business, health, and math and science majors, up to 13%. million Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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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. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

Also concerned that Allegheny violated its own tenure policies, as well as the American Association of University Professors’ widely followed tenure policies, Shi reached out to her campus AAUP chapter and the national association. Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 Unanswered Questions.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. The scrutiny can be uncomfortable, but more are responding with serious efforts to measure and explain their value. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy

GlobalHigherEd

My first experience with computers was with a mainframe “Amdahl” where you had to learn complex codes to do simple word-processing! My first experience with computers was with a mainframe “Amdahl” where you had to learn complex codes to do simple word-processing! Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. Today, of course, those professions include communication, journalism, hotel and restaurant management, library science, nursing, psychology, social work, and much more. How might this precept apply to higher education?

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

I thought, what with high rates of inflation, a depressed stock market, and lots of reports of crime, the Democratic party was about to face a red wave. I also thought the Russian military was far stronger than it was. Wrong again. I even thought that Ukraine was far more dependent on NATO, and especially US support, than it actually is.