Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. As a tech-driven organization, L&T is committed to harnessing the power of AI to drive engineering and service excellence. Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Throughout their history, HBCUs have been engines of economic empowerment and transformative in playing an outsized role in society by fostering personal and professional growth, promoting social justice, and empowering individuals to become game changers in the world. Here’s further proof of the impact of HBCUs in the world.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The NSF’s full Survey of Earned Doctorates report isn’t expected until December, and it will include fresh findings on how COVID-19 affected doctorate recipients’ graduate school experiences and postgraduation plans. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The four-year, Catholic private school officially became an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), meaning over 25% of their undergraduate population are Latinx. The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. We are around 83% students of color.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“Most humans encountered the clowns, and it was like the magnetic opposition,” Grundy said. 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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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

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

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. In high school, she was placed in an accelerated academic program. Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

When asked what surprised her most about publishing after a summer spent working as an intern at one of our presses, a history graduate student replied, “In graduate school, we focus on tearing books apart. We knew the engine of peer review needed a tune-up.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. I myself suffered through the new math in middle school. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He shared how his years in software engineering taught him about finding the critical balance between the silos of specialization and the generosity required for collaboration. Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership Dr. Michael Sorrell, longtime president of Paul Quinn College, has been a frequent guest on our podcast.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He shared how his years in software engineering taught him about finding the critical balance between the silos of specialization and the generosity required for collaboration. Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership Dr. Michael Sorrell, longtime president of Paul Quinn College, has been a frequent guest on our podcast.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2023

Though it’s only available via a waitlist, it’s already been incorporated into various third-party products like Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine. All they had to do was follow step-by-step instructions provided by the tool and boom, one of the most iconic games in history was recreated.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Universities such as Anáhuac University Network (Red de Universidad Anáhuac) , Ball State University , Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) , London Business School , and S.P. Graduates will be prepared for careers in software engineering, systems engineering, web development, and more.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. Consider the revision: I stood with 10 other third-year nursing students outside the neonatal care unit in the school hospital at the University of the Philippines. A history of an idea. I take issue with none of these reasons.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By telling stories, the argument goes, we learn empathy, discover ourselves, and become more humane. Consider the revision: I stood with 10 other third-year nursing students outside the neonatal care unit in the school hospital at the University of the Philippines. A history of an idea. I take issue with none of these reasons.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The initial concept of a new entity or school came to the administration organically, from faculty in computer science (the data science program is part of CS) and applied science who are managing the surge in enrollment.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Some law schools admit less qualified students on a part-time or probationary status to exclude them from the rankings that look exclusively at full-time students. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Let’s take Muller’s message to heart: “There are things that can be measured.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

In a bid to increase equity, a growing number of school districts are eliminating advanced and accelerated high school classes and valedictorian distinction. But I certainly wouldn’t claim that my school is purpose-driven or any more values and vision aligned than any other campus. Input from the humanities is essential.

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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.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

At large institutions, this is sometimes done on the school level independent of the graduation ceremony. Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. . · Doctoral hoods are 4 feet long with 5-inch wide trim.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. In part because of the Great Recession, birth rates fell sharply, as did the number of high school graduates. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

23 January · Episode 191 Increase Graduate School Enrollment through Strategic Enrollment Management 40 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Strategic enrollment management (SEM) as a solution for growing graduate school enrollment in declining markets (e.g., Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1%

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I’ve worked at virtually every level of higher education, from community college to graduate-only schools. If we believe that human promise is distributed equally, it’s what has been our lived experience. It’s a pleasure. My background has been pretty fully in higher education. So it could fall into.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Me : Just visit a medical school and you’ll be amazed by how extensively these professional schools already make use of simulations including virtual cadavers, hearts, and brains as well as surgery simulators -- leaving those plastic toy human anatomy kits that children have played with in the dust.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even US news outlet NPR reported : It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been taken up by a white male. Morton graduated with an MBA after attending a comprehensive school in North Yorkshire.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She initiated key projects such as the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement, the Cisneros Institute for Emerging Leaders, and the Institute of Water Resource Science and Technology, alongside establishing a Cyber Engineering Technology & Cyber Security Research Center.

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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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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.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Whether a new semester or new school year, it just doesn’t get old! 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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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In education marketing, this shift presents a new challenge and a unique opportunity for schools to connect with their community more effectively. Through the strategic use of visual content, schools can enhance their communications and enrich the educational experience for students, engage parents, and build a stronger school identity.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Whether a new semester or new school year, it just doesn’t get old! 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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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence group defines artificial intelligence as “a term coined by emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy in 1955, was defined by him as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.’ Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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