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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.” Hartmann said he worried that the college was “gutting” its academic core to pay for new programs and facilities “that cost a lot of money to create, and that they see as the future.”

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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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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

The first phase is probably developing co-branded curriculum, facilities so that industry can share their problems, and maybe we get some industry or government officials to teach, and then we create those bridge modules. Adding the Human Element.

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Survey on Campus Technology: Student Priorities and Problems

Inside Higher Ed

Fewer than one in five respondents are very familiar with their college’s policies regarding the use of personal devices on campus networks, and students who are computer science majors are even less likely to be very familiar, 7 percent. Now, events and games can be livestreamed directly from the fields and facilities.

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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.

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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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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.