Remove Computer Science Remove Engineering Remove Institution Remove Scholarship
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

“Ample room” for int’l students in the US

The PIE News

As policies restricting international student inflows take hold in Canada , Australia and the UK , “there is ample room for the international student population to grow” in the US, it said. To maximise this capacity for growth, universities “could offer more scholarships and run targeted marketing campaigns in key regions to help with brand awareness (..)

article thumbnail

Universities should be “skills brokers” for mutual benefit, urges report

The PIE News

And data can help to point institutions to make decisions. Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. The paper acknowledges that in some industries the skills match is working well.

article thumbnail

Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

But if trends hold, just a fraction of them will make the jump–especially to a selective institution. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

College 75
article thumbnail

How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. We define earnings boost as the amount more that they are making beyond the typical high school graduate within the state that their institution is located. An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

College 73
article thumbnail

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

eLiterate

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. 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. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution.