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AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Eliminating opportunities for especially talented students to pursue advanced mathematics runs the risk of reducing the number well-prepared for success in computer science, data analytics, statistics, and many areas of the natural and social sciences. Those comments deserve a detailed response.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There are harsh truths—lies and secrets, guilt and shame—that we generally don’t want to admit. That inequities pervade American higher education, including gates that restrict entry into high-demand, high-salary majors in computer science, economics, finance, engineering and nursing.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There are movies that help define a generation. These range from first-year learning communities and meta majors to opportunity cohorts, research cohorts and pre-professional support centers in areas like business, computer science and prelaw and premed. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberal arts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Sure, the number of philosophy majors has remained fairly steady, but linguistics flourishes, even as the number of English and history majors has fallen by half and as computer science now enrolls as many undergraduates as all the humanities majors combined. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The past’s meaning only becomes clear in hindsight. At the same time, many campuses not only cap admissions into nursing programs but programs in business, computer science, economics and engineering. Barriers to entry into the sciences abound, while striking racial and gender disparities persist.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The $64,000 question is how institutions can do all these things as well as their existing functions (like research and graduate and professional education) without pricing themselves out of business. Seize the day. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. One of which is this: “We must look backward to move forward.” But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I’ve never really trusted my powers of prediction, but recent weeks have seriously eroded any confidence in my ability to forecast the future. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Some recent prophecies have proven particularly wrongheaded.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The four-year graduation rate at the Cal State campuses reached a record high—33 percent—in 2021. A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently?

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