Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

During her 17-year tenure at Ohio State, she also served as associate dean of the graduate school, associate provost and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. State College. From the start of her career, she has focused on improving access to education for underserved populations.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. The Path From College to Careers. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting is growing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games. But for university and college marcomm departments, ChatGPT may allow you to work more effectively and efficiently—if you use it wisely.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The bot became an instant global sensation, even as it raised concerns about cheating and how college writing might change. Then, a day later, and in an apparent effort not to be left out of the AI–chat bot party, Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing search engine. 6, despite employee leaks that the tool was not ready.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. North Idaho College is stuck paying two presidents although neither technically holds the position. Chadron State College’s Board of Trustees has appointed Ron Patterson at a momentous time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, popular courses in human physiology and public speaking have VR experiences from Coursera and Meta that enable learners to practice skills in a hands-on virtual environment. Universities are even creating digital twin campuses with Meta to increase skills competency in areas that previously couldn’t be studied online.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, popular courses in human physiology and public speaking have VR experiences from Coursera and Meta that enable learners to practice skills in a hands-on virtual environment. Universities are even creating digital twin campuses with Meta to increase skills competency in areas that previously couldn’t be studied online.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On the conference’s Student Mobility and Partnerships panel, Humber College ’s associate dean of global partnerships and education, Rebecca Fitzgerald, said that discussing each other’s strategic priorities is a vital building block.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly.

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UW Presidential Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

He will retain his position as professor of Earth and Space Sciences in the College of the Environment and continue his research and teaching as a geophysicist. In his time as provost, Mark has had a significant positive impact, starting with the nine outstanding deans that he’s hired during his tenure.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. Half are nonwhite, and most (60 percent) are the first in their families to attend college. Colleges generally pay their faculty members, but Reshef bypassed that idea when he conceived of UoPeople. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

She recalled: “Coming out of World War II and the internment camp, my father’s family had no money, so he put himself through college, working three jobs. He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

colleges and universities. About the Podcast Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich Dr. Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and a B.S. Good to be here.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have been an educator for 41 years and have worked with students from Pre-K through college. Both courses are designed to prepare students with the necessary academic learning and study skills to tackle the rigors of college. Today’s college students have grown up with devices that allow for instantaneous access to the world.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have been an educator for 41 years and have worked with students from Pre-K through college. Both courses are designed to prepare students with the necessary academic learning and study skills to tackle the rigors of college. Today’s college students have grown up with devices that allow for instantaneous access to the world.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He went on to chair MIT Sloan School’s Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; then became Deputy Dean of the school; and eventually serve for three years as the Chief Economist for the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States before returning to MIT. On the bottom was the California Community College System.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. Darling and Deanna P.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 25, 2023

We try to do that in a very focused way, to match emerging opportunities and emerging resources, to create more platforms and more engines for more of that matching." So maybe I'm a student, cafeteria worker, professor, or dean. We're all learners, we're all teachers in this beautiful space where learning comes first. How do I test it?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment. Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Creating a Clear Pathway to Community College Using the Common App, CSCU created a legislature-driven, GPA-calibrated automated admission program that will be implemented at the state’s 17 technical schools and CSCU’s 17 community college campuses. Why having a “winning team” mentality is so important for higher ed.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Illinois Tech is also one of just 88 institutions named an American Talent Initiative ‘High-Flier’ by the Aspen Talent Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies for ensuring college access and success. Previously, Echambadi served as the dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University’s highly anticipated Cloud Lab will finally open its doors for student and faculty use in a soft opening in early July, and Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science Rebecca Doerge is on a mission to make one thing clear. Submit the code, the science is done.”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

It's written around business, but it's actually a book on how are you an authentic human leader in any place. Sheares Ashby began her academic career at Iowa State University (ISU) as an assistant professor in 1996 and was promoted to associate professor in 2002, also mentoring ISU's Program for Women in Science & Engineering.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts. That’s because colleges find that reclassifying degrees as STEM benefits them in other ways.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The report includes the specific case of the hostile takeover of New College, describing it as a blueprint for potential future encroachments on public colleges and universities across the United States. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Supreme Court dismantled decades of legal precedent in June, ruling against race-conscious college admissions and bringing an end to affirmative action practices in higher education. million borrowers have $0 payments, and 75% of SAVE borrowers are Pell Grant recipients, meaning they are or were low-income college students.

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