Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a recent interview, Professor Mick Grierson of the Creative Computing Institute (CCI) at the University of the Arts London shared valuable insights into the evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI) in creative fields. The session was recorded in MS Teams, which automatically created a transcript.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

Universities are “uniquely placed” to address workforce gaps and should effectively become “skills brokers”, a new report says. By developing knowledge workers that industry needs, universities can maintain their mission of enabling strong graduate outcomes, the paper from Nous Group indicates.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. All of the involved institutions are HSIs. Led by S.K.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 24, 2023

New legislation passed by the Illinois General Assembly aims to equalize credit transfers between community colleges and the state’s public four-year colleges and universities, making student transitions smoother between institution types. The bill, which is soon expected to be signed into law by Gov.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2024

As STEM drives innovation both inside the classroom and in the workplace, universities are building and renovating facilities curated to the student, professor and researcher experience. The goal is to attract and retain students and top-notch research talent in a highly competitive marketplace.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

International graduate student enrollment continues to rebound since the pandemic froze students in place, and new countries and regions favoriting a U.S. Enrollment has exploded by 100%, thanks to a significant influx of international students who have entered the U.S. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

of the colleges and universities that received the CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey. Ortega, president of CGS, noted that this increase in international graduate students calls for institutional sensitivity to best serve these students. degree-granting institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the editor: I am surprised to see Andrew Newman, chair of the English department at the University at Stony Brook, in his March 9 essay "The English Major, After the End, " repeating Nathan Heller’s unresearched and misrepresented “The End of the English Major,” The New Yorker (Mar.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It is this technology-enabled ease and efficiency that I thought could benefit my teacher candidates (TCs) in my fine arts for elementary education course during their busy end-of-semester season. in response to user prompts, there is no ignoring the flurry of both concerns and hopes for its use in a variety of professional fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. I’ll give you 10,000 reasons: the degree will cost students $10,000! A $10K master’s degree from a top global university.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Art Pimentel , president of Woodland Community College, in California, has been appointed president of Folsom Lake College, also in California. Roach Dean of the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, has been chosen as president there. Thomas, in Minnesota, has been named to the job on a permanent basis.

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Advtech group, which owns over 10 different brands with schools and colleges in Southern and Eastern Africa regions, will offer qualifications including in nursing for local and international students, with a focus on feeding overseas markets for healthcare workers including the UK and Australia, according to officials.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The perfect storms of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts of New England presented abundant challenges to the academic and university planning processes. For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

And at the University of Montana, that’s what sets the foundation for their esports program, Grizzly Esports. I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. The impetus of all of it was creating a space where students could feel like they belong,” says Cassens.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. That may be what we are seeing in the NSF survey in the decline of doctorate recipients, and that students just need more time.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While the in-out debate had been covered deeply, the article detailed a letter sent to Sunday Times from 103 UK university vice-chancellors, who warned that leaving the EU would mean cutting the UK off from “unique support and established networks” on the continent. I don’t see the value. Who would pay the running costs?

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The PIE News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Akshit Jain works at T&A Consulting in Delhi where he supports Norwich University of the Arts as country manager for India. The importance of the Indian market as a major driver for global growth in student mobility is on display everywhere. What do you like most about your job? Two work-related issues keep me awake.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Undergraduate enrollment across all undergraduate sectors is beginning to steady, remedying the sharper declines colleges have experienced before the pandemic, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. increase in enrollment, with Asian and Latinx students both clocking a 7.4% bump in students enrolled.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. Understanding that one’s success is related to one’s own free will more readily allow students to embrace trials, persist when faced with obstacles, and exert effort when challenged (Dweck, 2008).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

I hope the students who study with me don’t just stop at learning about the violence, but what we can do to support each other. I hope the students who study with me don’t just stop at learning about the violence, but what we can do to support each other. What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., Clark University had been a neighbor to Becker for nearly 135 years. Clark’s leadership was determined help soften the blow, especially for students who needed continuity of learning to finish their degrees.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. Understanding that one’s success is related to one’s own free will more readily allow students to embrace trials, persist when faced with obstacles, and exert effort when challenged (Dweck, 2008).

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Global student mobility has witnessed certain fundamental shifts over the past few years. All stakeholders, including international students and education service providers, have been embracing non-traditional approaches to earning foreign degrees.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The standardized tests used to assess student learning don’t count toward students’ grades and may therefore provide inaccurate and misleading measures of student knowledge and skills. Schools in high poverty neighborhoods also have especially high numbers of English language learners and greater student churn.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. That’s what the terminated professor, Xiaoling Shi, and some of her colleagues and students want to know. “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But you wouldn’t know it from listening to Valerie Sheares Ashby, who last year took over the presidency of the University of Maryland Baltimore County from Freeman A. ” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows.

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