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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While working at AT&T as an engineer, she joined the company’s group for Hispanic employees and was asked to go speak to a class of middle school students in Newark, New Jersey. Today, there are over 3,000 HISPA role models nationwide. These role models come from companies and businesses local to the schools.

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ACE Names 26 Emerging Higher Education Leaders

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“For decades, the ACE Fellows Program has played a crucial role in developing a pipeline of skilled, agile, and diverse leaders who advance and invigorate higher education,” said ACE President Ted Mitchell. The ACE Fellows Program boasts having strengthened institutions in American higher education since its 1965 inception.

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Funding the Higher Education Sector: More funding, with wiser spending

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To the contrary, the Committee were unequivocal that “the current model for funding higher education is unsustainable”. In a recent piece on this site , Dr Mark Corver presented an alternative model for funding higher education. Data from 2020 shows we spend 2% of GDP on higher education.

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What Is Zero-Trust Security? Key Principles of the Model

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In the face of increasingly intelligent cybercriminals and rising threats, higher education institutions must protect their networks and online environments from attacks. IBM’s 2023 “Cost of a Data Breach” report ranks social engineering techniques such as phishing scams as one of the top…

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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Relishes His Role as a Mentor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. candidate in material science and engineering at the University of Central Florida. My topic is on “high throughput, multimodal, micro chamber biosensors for in vitro selective localization of killifish cardiac models.”

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,