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

The PIE News

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. “There is going to be a continuing need for liberal arts because critical thinking is still a fundamental skill,” he detailed.

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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? People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations.

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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. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. What a Neo-Cal State would be like.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences.

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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.

One, honoring and strengthening the university’s role as an engine of opportunity and a national leader in economic mobility. I grew up in India as a mechanical engineer by profession. I was working for the tractor company Massey Ferguson in India as a service engineer. Raj Echambadi 02:24 This is a true story, Drumm.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. I certainly wouldn’t. What, then, is the alternative?

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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.

NYU, one of the largest, richest universities in the United States, up until the 1970s had a large, if not terribly distinguished engineering school. They were very strong in the sciences, extremely strong in mathematics with the Curran Institute but didn’t have an engineering program. So those are. are models.