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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” It goes on, “Even a few decades ago, no one could have fully anticipated future investments in computer science, quantum computing, or climate science—fields where Princeton is now a leader.” ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). “We We are an affordable institution.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. The program includes a science fest, monthly virtual STEM nights, and a summer camp on campus.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

That inequities pervade American higher education, including gates that restrict entry into high-demand, high-salary majors in computer science, economics, finance, engineering and nursing. We need to reframe the conversation about equity in ways that prioritize learning and equity in learning outcomes.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

This trend has major equity implications for these schools, given who enrolls in community colleges: Recent data shows that about 40 percent of community college students are Black or Latino, and nearly half are from lower-income backgrounds. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

How can they promote equity and access? In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly. That’s a big question about the purpose of writing—not one we can delegate to computer science.

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SJSU Public-Private Partnerships Boost Enrollment and Community Relationships: Changing Higher Ed 193 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson

The Change Leader, Inc.

An internationally recognized Latina leader, President Teniente-Matson is a champion of student success initiatives, diversity, equity and inclusion, civic engagement, and experiential learning. Our engineering program, for example, the average GPA to come into the program is over a 4. So they all go to work. Very interesting.