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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Without innovation no organization can thrive.

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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.” Inequities pervade American higher education.

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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. We are an affordable institution. Also, it’s the environment.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

As businesses fine-tune technological methods for delivering training, technological advancements in secondary and postsecondary education must align to mitigate the workforce skill gap. Procedia Computer Science , 217 , 507-512. Andragogy: A theory in practice in higher education. El-Amin, A. Lambeth, J.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent of all employed graduates who lived in the UK before enrolling in higher education held technical jobs. . The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. per cent versus 3.7

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

As businesses fine-tune technological methods for delivering training, technological advancements in secondary and postsecondary education must align to mitigate the workforce skill gap. Procedia Computer Science , 217 , 507-512. Andragogy: A theory in practice in higher education. El-Amin, A. Lambeth, J.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides national institution-level data on some faculty characteristics (e.g., In spring 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded $1.5 distribution of faculty of different racial/ethnic groups by academic rank).

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