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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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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Students have in-lab research opportunities with faculty, professional development programs, a site visit to Amazon facilities, and mentorship from graduate-level students. Fellows receive room and board, a weekly stipend, and travel reimbursement. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

Trends that predated the pandemic persisted: the declining number of humanities majors. Higher education is stratifying, some might say bifurcating, as the gaps in campus wealth, facilities, programs and student qualifications widens. The intensifying crisis of the humanities. Above all, the shift toward STEM fields.

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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. Beyond that, two things stuck with me about S.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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.

00:48:47] So the campus is coming fully east to west in ways that link humanities and arts, housing, graduate students, tech valley, and all forms of partnerships with museum and art activities that are along that same Paseo. Our computer science program, very similar, over a 4. So they all go to work. Very interesting.