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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Building a stronger engineering community in Malaysia: The mission of the Board of Engineers Malaysia

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Building a stronger engineering community in Malaysia: The mission of the Board of Engineers Malaysia editor Wed, 04/26/2023 - 01:36 In Malaysia, the development of the nation's infrastructure and economy depends heavily on the engineering sector.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

TCUs have a unique mission, Youngbull said, to not only provide relevant degree programs to their learners but to revitalize and sustain their tribal cultures, history, and languages in a way that permeates into the community. The mission of TCUs is not to replicate settler colonialism, but to reflect and sustain a unique tribal identity.

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Colleges go offbeat for cybersecurity training

Inside Higher Ed

“Being in costume on campus as clowns was definitely a lesson learned— not effective.” To spur people to consider the “noise” of a denial-of-service attack, Tanner Upthegrove, a media engineer at Virginia Tech, created Tesseract , an immersive audio experience.

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Celebrating Women in Tech at Liaison

Liaison International

Deb Erdner | Vice President, Operations Before coming to Liaison, Deb spent 10 years at Wilkes and PCOM, and since 2019, she’s served on the executive board at Wilkes School of Business and Engineering. But it definitely does happen. Since joining Liaison, she’s had 16 titles over 20 years, which could be a fun fact.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

An argumentative paper may begin with a definition. A history starts with the historical context necessary to understand the argument. And if the disjointed sentence happens to be a key sentence—like a definition or a thesis statement—the reader’s understanding could warp at precisely the wrong moment. A history of an idea.

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