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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

The program includes a science fest, monthly virtual STEM nights, and a summer camp on campus. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments. Some activities are in person, and others require collaboration among student teams. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C. The Paul T.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Department of Education that allows us to look at, if you study engineering or social work or psychology at a specific institution, what’s the ROI you’re getting, looking at your cost relative to the earnings boost you’re obtaining? We have data from the U.S. That gave us a different way to think about it.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Can financially-challenged institutions sustain the range of majors and faculty size, especially in the humanities, while adding new career-aligned fields?

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia. Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

The Change Leader, Inc.

This includes the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which supports recruiting, preparing, and developing effective, diverse, and capable STEM teachers who can teach in high-need school districts and serve a diverse student population. Education features interventions that enhance educational opportunities.

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Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 190 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, recent regulatory changes by the Department of Education, effective July 1st, have significantly redefined the processes for institutional mergers and acquisitions. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.