Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Melody speaks to all humans, rhythm speaks to everyone on the planet. Music takes you out of your circumstances of life,” said Sean Slade, a music producer and associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music. Music is the universal language.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments. Read about them here.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Science fiction is the genre that allows us to imagine the future—not just future technologies, but the future of society and human life. asked what, if anything, distinguishes a human from an android. Certainly, engineering and technology students would do well to ponder those issues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Lehman, we have the platform and the resources to partner with schools and communities in the Bronx to be a social and economic engine — that is what helps us become intentionally an HSI and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI),” says Delgado. “We We are around 83% students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Divisions or departments might agree on expectations across courses. Michael Mindzak, assistant professor in the department of educational studies, Brock University. For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

This partnership with Coursera further positions Illinois Tech as both an opportunity engine and university of the future—one that offers a powerful, relevant, digital education anytime, anywhere. Graduates will be prepared for careers in software engineering, systems engineering, web development, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Many of those stewarding our institutions are concerned that students are too often being taught what to think instead of how to think, particularly about current events and history. Department of Education to develop and assess institutional quality standards.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Put the words “universities are” into Google, Haski-Leventhal observes, and the search engine’s AI-powered auto-complete feature types in “dying,” “scams,” and “irrelevant in the digital age.” Input from the humanities is essential. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

For example, an institution known for forensic science might develop an online MBA program with a specialization in that area, leveraging its unique history and specialization. Phil’s a lifelong learner who transitioned from educational technology consulting after working in the engineering field for many years.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

More than that, these initiatives express a broader turn in humanities and social science scholarship away from the cultural, postmodern, and post-structuralist turns that dominated anthropology, geography, history, literature, political science, and sociology since the mid- and late-1970s. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I’ve taught two first year-experience courses as an assistant professor in the Academic Strategies Department. Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The current context of education is riddled with anti-Blackness that continues to find systemic ways to harm Black children and adolescents, ranging from the persistent surveillance and pushout from educational opportunities to anti-CRT legislation that prevents all students — not just Black youth — from learning about Black history and culture.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I’ve taught two first year-experience courses as an assistant professor in the Academic Strategies Department. Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. It’s important to note that mindsets vary and humans are not always one or the other.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Department of Education Hispanic Serving Institution designation, and the prestigious Seal of Excelencia. 00:48:47] So the campus is coming fully east to west in ways that link humanities and arts, housing, graduate students, tech valley, and all forms of partnerships with museum and art activities that are along that same Paseo.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

Mark Portelli, Release Engineering Manager at Cengage “I was an Electrical Engineering major and studied mostly Science and Math. Using active, socially engaged approaches we examined topics such as resilience and stress, social image, healthy eating, social activism, substance use, healthy relationships, and human sexuality.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

When faculty/customers said to the textbook publishers, “I want my book to come with slides, lecture notes, and a self-grading homework platform so that I don’t have to put as much work into that annoying survey course the department head is making me teach,” then that’s what they provided. Can Pearson Solve the Rubric’s Cube?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

He served as campus director of the University of Connecticut Stamford campus from 2016 to 2021, where he also served as a faculty member in the English department. Also, more effectively communicate the seamlessness of your continuum from community colleges to four-year institutions to help attract and retain students.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself. We know that STEM majors short term do substantially better than humanities majors, but what you see over time is the convergence between the two. But there’s a big amount of variability for business majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Over the last five years, most of the Confucius Institutes hosted at American colleges and universities have closed down—but now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a process for their potential return. The Defense Department sponsored the report, which was released this month.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

People have resisted new and drastic change throughout history, yet every time it happens we seem to adjust as a society.” “I’m But we should also be having the same discussion with our peers and within our departments. “Advances in technology are inevitable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

People have resisted new and drastic change throughout history, yet every time it happens we seem to adjust as a society.” “I’m But we should also be having the same discussion with our peers and within our departments. “Advances in technology are inevitable.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Classical literature slowly gave way to English literature, then to American, then to world, then to films, then to graphic novels and now to digital humanities. Others use it to mean anything not math-based, so history would be included, STEM would not and political science would be sliced right down the middle. It matters.

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HESA

MAY 4, 2023

Not just climate science, but how humans respond to it and how we think about it. So I’m thinking of examples of catastrophic cases like Pakistani campuses being underwater for most of last fall, or to go back in history, like what happened to Tulane after Hurricane Katrina. So we’re already seeing this happen.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Department of Homeland Security expanded opportunities for international students who have earned U.S. degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, recent regulatory changes by the Department of Education, effective July 1st, have significantly redefined the processes for institutional mergers and acquisitions. About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. Listen in.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history? Q: What do you make then of the shrinking numbers of liberal arts students and the huge increase in those pursuing career tracks in fields such as engineering and business?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” Department of Education (ED) issued guidance for how schools can navigate admissions and still consider other factors in evaluating applicants, including neighborhood and high school data, life challenges, and experiences of racial discrimination. “The

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