Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. Milke, professor and chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the A.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the editor: I am surprised to see Andrew Newman, chair of the English department at the University at Stony Brook, in his March 9 essay "The English Major, After the End, " repeating Nathan Heller’s unresearched and misrepresented “The End of the English Major,” The New Yorker (Mar.

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Dan Cohen

JANUARY 24, 2022

I also happen to love this passage from Rollo May’s book, which is incredibly relevant to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter. Joel Willick, an engineering student at Northeastern University, has created a delightful robot named Bob ROS , an excellent play on the late, great Bob Ross of PBS’s cult hit “The Joy of Painting.”

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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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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

No, we will have a new normal,” said West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We 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 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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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 SCSC initiative builds on Sloan’s University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) program, now concluding. Sloan Foundation. But systemic change is hard.

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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. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. Rising student loan debt and tuition need to be addressed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 SCSC initiative builds on Sloan’s University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) program, now concluding. Sloan Foundation. But systemic change is hard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Eight scientists at The Ohio State University have been elected to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. The 2023 class includes 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators elected by their academic peers and spanning 24 scientific disciplines. Kendra McSweeney , professor of geography.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Black university leaders had a deep desire to serve as the mentors and role models that many of them never had.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. Students with a special interest in humanities were found to experience a seven-grand bump, totaling $83,000. for physical science and history majors.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

CIOs and their network support engineers constantly have to find creative ways to improve their network configurations to support the ever-growing number of devices on campus. 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 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in philosophy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

The University of Missouri (MU) has received $3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a doctoral training program for materials science and data science and analytics. Because as these tools become more pervasive, the role of human beings is going to shift more toward the creative and cognitive processes.

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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. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

When it comes to university prestige, no other country seems to hold a candle to the United States, according to the most recent international rankings by higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds. was the University of Pennsylvania, with two bests in Nursing and Marketing. University of Oxford (U.K.) universities past U.K.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Nazareth is the latest in a string of former colleges in New York to transition to university status since the state Board of Regents changed its definition of the types of higher education institutions that can claim the designation. The post Nazareth College becomes Nazareth University appeared first on University Business.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

University leaders say, on average, 60% of students are more interested in online learning this year than last year. Master of Science in Data Analytics Engineering from Northeastern University This new program from Northeastern University, ranked among the top U.S.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Oxford Nanopore, a spinout from Oxford University, produces devices used to identify viruses and spot variants in the genetic makeup of humans, animals and plants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Emory University announced it is launching a new institute this month that will harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide more cost-effective and equitable care for patients with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions. Woodruff professor of biomedical engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Liang Zhang “Our cost-benefit analysis finds that on average a college degree offers better returns than the stock market,” said study coauthor Dr. Liang Zhang, a professor of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through its Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) and as part of its larger commitment to sustainability, equity, and climate action, the University of Arizona (UArizona) has supported dozens of projects over the past two years that promote environmentalism and help address disparities in sustainability efforts. Photo courtesy UArizona CSF.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished. Metzler pioneered the nation’s first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion certification program at Cornell University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” in polymer materials from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and a Ph.D. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Education. Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She has been an active member of AERA since 2000.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

These include 3D visualisations of the human body for medical purposes, and of engineering and architectural designs that aid a deeper understanding of structure. There is no doubt that the human brain is clever. The post Metaverse explained for University Leaders: What is currently possible within the Metaverse?

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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. In his address, Soubh listed off many top jobs in today’s job market that did not exist 20 years ago such as driverless car engineer and cloud architect.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 17, 2024

Asna Tabassum (Photo courtesy of CAIR-LA) The University of Southern California (USC) has banned the 2024 class valedictorian, a pro-Palestinian advocate, from speaking at a May commencement ceremony, citing safety concerns. In a statement released Monday, Andrew T.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. What is the connection between political science and project management?

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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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totallyrewired

JANUARY 25, 2024

Here is a summary of a webinar given today by Gary Fisher from Derby University from the series ‘Teaching Across the Globe’ on ‘Using generative AI for creating learning materials’ The text was entirely generated from AI. The student survey also found more favorable judgments of the AI text over the human text.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University announced today a $116 million donation from the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to help underrepresented students pursue graduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The first student cohort will enroll in fall 2024, with an expected 86 fellows to be added each year. Hide by line?:

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