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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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

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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

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

aggressively encourage students to participate in intramural athletics and less formal forms of organized exercise. In this context, campuses need to organize discussions about cross-cultural communication and workshops on professional behavior and etiquette. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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.

They can also join student organizations and participate in activities at Illinois Tech. We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science. There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences. I was a physics major.

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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

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About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. They were very strong in the sciences, extremely strong in mathematics with the Curran Institute but didn’t have an engineering program. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences.