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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9 of the U.S.

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Deborah W. Martinez

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Martinez has extensive experience as a senior association executive, including the development and management of continuing education and professional development programs, as well as regional, national and international conferences and meetings. Title: Executive Director International Ultraviolet Association Deborah W.

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17 Must-Attend & Virtual Higher Education Marketing Conferences for 2023-2024

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

Higher Ed Marketing Conferences Fuel Innovation and Expand Connections The higher education marketing landscape is evolving quickly, which means digital marketing professionals must work hard to stay on the cutting edge of new technologies and trends. Higher education marketing conferences are a great way to accomplish this.

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Costs and Benefits of Adding 30-units to Accounting Students' Requirements for Licensure as a CPA

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Expanding the Knowledge Base for CPAs. The AICPA was an early supporter of the 150-hour requirement.

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The Auto Tech Problem

Inside Higher Ed

That allowed more senior mechanics to stick around for a long time, and it kept the need for continuing education relatively subdued. A single dealership could deal with internal combustion engines, plug-in hybrids and EVs on the same day. The technology isn’t going to slow down. That’s new. We’re here.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Inside Higher Ed

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. “We could reverse [that trend] by giving them educational products that will get them reconnected, that will value their prior learning, that will get them to that degree.”

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Teachers as Transformers

Inside Higher Ed

To better understand how higher education got to where it is today, you might read Harvey J. Graff’s “ Lessons from the 1960s ,” a brief essay that looks back to that fateful and contentious decade for ideas about how we might reinvent higher education for the 21 st century. Similarly, the production of Ph.D.s