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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are clear models of success, scholarship opportunities to major universities, lucrative professional contracts, elevated social status, and the potential to dramatically change the economic conditions for themselves and their families in place. The context around football has been infused with value.

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Engaging Students Through Experiential Learning Inside the Classroom

Faculty Focus

Like debate, problem-based learning is devoted to solving problems for which there are no definite answers. Computer science students can design websites, while students in public relations can develop graphic design packages and media campaigns. Barbara Jacoby is a higher education consultant with Barbara Jacoby Consulting.

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Engaging Students Through Experiential Learning Inside the Classroom

Faculty Focus

Like debate, problem-based learning is devoted to solving problems for which there are no definite answers. Computer science students can design websites, while students in public relations can develop graphic design packages and media campaigns. Barbara Jacoby is a higher education consultant with Barbara Jacoby Consulting.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

We have something called the Arizona Teachers Academy, which will provide students a tuition-free teacher-prep degree, provided they commit to staying in the state and teaching in a school in the state for the same number of years that they get this scholarship. Brown: I definitely do.

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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

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. “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.

We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science. There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences. This, by definition, is exclusionary. We also have the first design school in the country.