University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Today’s high school students are showing less interest in pursuing careers in education, and teachers in the profession are feeling burnt out and underpaid, according to a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). South, the worst still being Louisiana with 3.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5

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University Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

“We are going to be much more oriented toward listening to the people who pay our bills — parents, students, legislators and others. And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.”

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

Global Market Insights predicts the AI education market will reach $20 billion by 2027. We are also seeing educators and students adopt AI faster than previous disruptive and transformative technologies. However, human knowledge and expertise have a limit and cannot adapt to the real-time network needs of a campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can prove very valuable and promising in the realm of higher education but come with their own suite of issues that need to be considered, according to higher ed leaders and faculty who participated in a panel discussion on Wednesday. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering.

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The PIE News

JUNE 5, 2023

One of the topics highlighted during sessions at spring conferences, such as NAFSA , ASU +GSV and DETcon , was AI and its implications on the international education sector. Global engagement education technology provider Terra Dotta , announced plans to integrate generative AI into its global engagement platform.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Administrators say they’re responding to a budget shortfall, declining enrollment, flagging student interest in humanities courses, and pressure from parents who want their kids to be prepared for good-paying jobs after graduation. Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

Dr. Matt Maschmann The five-year grant will allow the school to better prepare and equip students for these emerging fields. Students will have the necessary skills to tackle some of the world’s most significant challenges in a wide variety of fields ranging from health care and medicine to energy.”

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

In advance of Kortext Live , we spoke to Andrew Bates (Chief Product Officer at Kortext) about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education, and how it can enhance the student learning experience. We take AI tools for granted every day – from search engines to digital voice assistants to facial recognition on our phones.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. As important discoveries in CS or engineering are likely to come from companies rather than universities, higher education may be in danger of losing its recognized role as the engine of knowledge creation.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. The rise of self-paced e-learning courses post-Covid is a testament to this shift, enabling students to learn according to their own schedules and at their own pace.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This is what I got: In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the integration of AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, has sparked a significant shift in teaching and learning methodologies. Educators and academics are actively exploring the potential of these tools to enhance educational practices.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: By most accounts, the March 2020 switch to emergency remote teaching and learning was rough on students, faculty members and staff workers. Student mental health suffered, existing inequities were exacerbated and many missed a sense of community. ’” Rascoff said. “We need that after the pandemic.”

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Firstly, education is a fundamental human right that should be accessible to all, regardless of gender. Secondly, education is a key driver of economic growth and development, and women’s equal access to education is essential for achieving sustainable development goals. But we’re not there yet.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Making Higher Education Work for All Students A Conversation With Becky Takeda-Tinker, President, Colorado State University Global bridget Thu, 09/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Remote Learning Weekly Wisdom Online learning became a critical component for many institutions during COVID.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the short few weeks that professor Alex Lawrence has taught his sales technology course this semester at Weber State University, he finds the level of discussion his students are already having “remarkable.” I tell my students ‘I’m going to show you. “Human writers draw from our experience, judgment, and intuition.

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HEPI

APRIL 21, 2023

If you want to know more about the impact of AI on higher education, Kortext Live , a free in-person event at Imperial College London, is taking place on 25 April 2023. Its goal is to mimic the way humans think and communicate. Does that mean AI is a negative development for higher education? What is artificial intelligence?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

As Georgetown’s Center for Education and the Workforce says : “Majoring in business pays off. In most programs, business students’ median annual earnings two years after graduation are roughly 10 times their monthly debt payments.” Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Education. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s higher education students are increasingly digitally savvy, accustomed to technology being woven into every facet of their lives. The rise of self-paced e-learning courses post-Covid is a testament to this shift, enabling students to learn according to their own schedules and at their own pace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Dr. Erik M.

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The PIE News

MARCH 8, 2023

The number of international students enrolling at universities in Russia is increasing despite negative publicity emanating from the country’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Russian State Universities organisation Racus. Export of higher education is our key activity. The number of those enrolling grew by 9.8%

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Skills need to be the focus for students, not job titles, implored the president of Lawrence Technical University and keynote speaker at the 15th annual AIRC conference. Future work and education are not about compartmentalisation, but rather transdisciplinary,” he asserted. Life is going to be very different,” he concluded.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Alejandro Hernandez “Education creates opportunity, and I’ve dedicated my life to the idea that we can build institutions that get students READY, not by luck or privilege, but by design,” Hernandez said. Alejandro “Alex” Hernandez has officially been inaugurated as the 10th president of Champlain College.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Impact of AI on Higher Education Content Marketing Tactics By the time you read this, it could be old news — that’s how fast the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving. Such improvements should give higher education marketers more insight into areas like student enrollment and course popularity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

International graduate student enrollment continues to rebound since the pandemic froze students in place, and new countries and regions favoriting a U.S. education are contributing to the trend, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. While the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The difficulty of making a successful transition from school to the workforce remains one of the most persistent problems in higher education. The outcome is bad for students and industries alike: a lack of social mobility and a lack of qualified workers. million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A new platform has ambitions to be a one-stop shop for study abroad, employing an AI-based engine to recommend universities and programs to prospective students all over the world. Launching six months ago, MetaApply has already partnered with 150 universities.

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