Coursera blog

MAY 2, 2024

However, you may still be able to approach your employer and see if they’re open to paying for a portion of your degree as part of your professional development. For example, if you are a software developer working in the financial technology sector, your employer may not be open to funding an art history degree.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Science and Health The Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Program is a yearlong program that exposes students to career paths in biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, and research. Students design proposals and work with mentors to carry out their research. Chicago, Ill.;

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

That inequities pervade American higher education, including gates that restrict entry into high-demand, high-salary majors in computer science, economics, finance, engineering and nursing. Accreditors could, for example, require institutions to undergo professional development training in teaching. They don’t.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Eliminating opportunities for especially talented students to pursue advanced mathematics runs the risk of reducing the number well-prepared for success in computer science, data analytics, statistics, and many areas of the natural and social sciences. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

The $64,000 question is how institutions can do all these things as well as their existing functions (like research and graduate and professional education) without pricing themselves out of business. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Seize the day. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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