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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. ” 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

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. To improve faculty diversity, college and university leaders need data. universities. Yet, at most U.S.

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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. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Data: Enrollment is Stabilizing and Freshman are Returning

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We found a further decline in the number of undergraduate students enrolled at colleges and universities this year,” said Dr. Doug Shapiro, executive director of the Clearinghouse Research Center. They tend to be more affordable and have academic programs that are more reputable, that don’t have a history of taking advantage of students.”

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Cybersecurity programs are set to launch across higher ed this fall

University Business

States have already begun to respond by either creating new programs for this upcoming academic year at their colleges and universities or strengthening their existing ones. More from UB: This South Dakota university is cybersecurity’s next powerhouse Rhode Island Gov. Miami University (Ohio) and St. Former U.S.

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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. He returned to New York City government as Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations. He went on to lead a Ford Foundation-supported effort to establish similar programs in cities across the U.S.