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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. In history, degrees conferred fell from 884 to 725. awarded in 2020 to 400 in 2021.

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. The Humanities Research Institute at Newcastle University is testing one solution by tackling another silo: the compartmentalisation of research and teaching.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When Whitworth University was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year, it faced a public relations nightmare , significant financial strain and a data breach that may have affected thousands of former and current students and employees. “Being in costume on campus as clowns was definitely a lesson learned— not effective.”

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US: “soaring” enrolments as international totals approach pre-pandemic levels

The PIE News

As history has shown us, international educational exchange bounces back. This data] is heartening, but we’re definitely below where we were pre-pandemic in terms of the economic contribution. The 2021/22 academic year data was released on November 14, showing signs of a full-force rebound with a 3.8% Places of Origin.

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Watch Your Language

Inside Higher Ed

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. Interest in language is also growing outside the academy.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Carnegie Mellon University–Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, is the only American campus on the entire continent. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10. “CMU is definitely interested in having a global impact; this is part of our global strategy.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

Before joining Illinois Tech, Raj developed and launched the first scaled online MBA program in partnership with Coursera at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, Echambadi served as the dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.