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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.” ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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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., Available data suggest that the nation’s faculty are less diverse than relevant comparison groups in terms of socioeconomic status.

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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. Success requires leaders to learn how to say no.

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Data: Enrollment is Stabilizing and Freshman are Returning

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is concerning to Dr. Frank Harris III, professor of postsecondary education and co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University. Dr. Frank Harris III, professor of postsecondary education and co-director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University.

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Cybersecurity programs are set to launch across higher ed this fall

University Business

Lincoln University is building a pipeline of high school students eager to pursue a postsecondary education and future career in cybersecurity through their Project Reach initiative, funded by the U.S. Former U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.

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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.

About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. By 2014 when his firm merged with the global law firm Cooley LLP, the higher education practice he headed was the largest and one of the highest regarded in the country. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences.