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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. Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Program: Mentorship and Workforce Development Charles R.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Also, it’s the environment.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.

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“Ample room” for int’l students in the US

The PIE News

India has surpassed China to become the largest source country at US graduate level, according to the Recruiting for Key Disciplines in the US report. Business & Management masters are the most sought-after programs of international students in the US, a new report by Studyportals has revealed.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Diversifying the Workforce for Data-Related Jobs Starts with Inclusivity in Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the University of Richmond, we have responded to these demands by developing programming in data analytics, data science and computational research. We have also developed programs to recruit and retain students interested in science. Students pursuing careers in all sectors will benefit from data skills.

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Negative headlines ‘harming’ Canada’s reputation

The PIE News

The immigration minister also suggested that private colleges were those “gaming the system”, but he did not name which providers in particular. A 2022 documentary named Alpha College as one provider that had deferred student start dates due to capacity constraints. They are more than 2.5