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Update on the tent encampment in the Quad

UW Presidential Blog

Some of our largest events, including a night market, Engineering Discovery Days and a Meany performance for elementary and high school students from across the city and state, were joyously celebrated on campus. The encampment involves a small fraction of our 50,000 students and of our 700-acre campus.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

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. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

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. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. Akram followed through, was accepted and was offered a $20,000 scholarship. With no buildings or grounds, the institution’s financial model is much leaner than those with facilities. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. I certainly wouldn’t. What, then, is the alternative?

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

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Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,