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The 5 subjects proven to give undergrads the best wage premium

University Business

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8

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Context, Cultural Insight Bring Diversity to the Dramatic Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S.

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What Tyler Cowen Gets Wrong About What’s Wrong with Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. I’ve read his books and blogs for years. Don’t get me wrong.

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What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” They are instead opting for in-class assignments, handwritten papers, group work and oral exams.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. That’s a big question about the purpose of writing—not one we can delegate to computer science. Mina Lee, doctoral student in computer science, Stanford University.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Education Sciences 12, no. 12 (December 2022): 935.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Adding the Human Element. He was the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to his tenure at Notre Dame, he was Chair of the Department of Computer Science and its Director of Graduate Studies at Georgetown University.