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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education. Missing Seats at Important Tables.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year. Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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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. Ted Underwood, p rofessor of information sciences and English and associate dean of academic affairs in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Fine arts, communications degrees qualify as STEM for immigrants

Inside Higher Ed

Many of the 22 new qualifying fields of study on the updated government list, including general forestry, cloud computing and geobiology, fall within conventional understanding of STEM fields. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts.

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Valerie Sheares Ashby on leadership and succeeding a legend

Inside Higher Ed

” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows. When I was a dean, I was in service to 700 people and many more students. And then to be the dean at Duke is just ridiculous. How do you balance it? That’s our work.