Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Gates Foundation report, Equitable Value: Promoting Economic Mobility and Social Justice through Postsecondary Education , underscored the importance of intentional use of data to close education gaps. We believe there are at least two obvious ones: First, data matters. ” Second, poverty matters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Over the past year, the Alfred P. of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There are gated majors, typically in computer science, engineering and nursing, and, at my institution, business, that require students to earn a minimum GPA in an introductory course in order to declare a major. That “ elite colleges simultaneously reproduce class inequality and belief in the justness of that inequality.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0, percentage points, respectively). per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Encourage and advocate for Black males to pursue dual enrollment and other accelerated course/program options in high school to provide access and help equalize and narrow postsecondary education matriculation disparities. Scholars and numerous peer-reviewed journals have dedicated special issues on the topic of Black men and boys.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

In fact, instructors must move beyond traditional teaching methods and implement innovative instructional practices to elevate the skills of all students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) (Eltanahy, 2023; Khana et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Guy says NTU’s engineering department is working hand in hand with UNM to potentially develop a material science doctoral program. Dr. Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, a charity organization supporting Native American students’ access to postsecondary education, agreed.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

In fact, instructors must move beyond traditional teaching methods and implement innovative instructional practices to elevate the skills of all students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) (Eltanahy, 2023; Khana et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Success requires leaders to learn how to say no.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve seen the broader higher education community latching on to this narrative just to get a better understanding of whether or not specific institutions and programs are paying off. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“Honestly, this happens so frequently now that my first reaction was, ‘You don’t need to disclose anything to me that will make you feel uncomfortable,’” said Mozafari, who teaches engineering communication at Cornell’s College of Engineering.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We have tons of evidence, good causal evidence, that for an additional year of postsecondary education, earnings are going to increase by between 8 and 10 percent. They know that chemical engineering, for example, is a really great thing to major in for earnings. The problem is all in the variation.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We are experts in postsecondary education. To help them be successful in their educational journey, we need to be aware of those basic needs. Our workforce needs these students to keep the economic engine of Minnesota revving and moving forward, ensuring a better, sustainable life for all people in our communities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. When it’s all political appointees, they see it as a political tool rather than as an engine for a region or state. They can’t but see it objectively.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2023

For example, a student who enrolls in a university to study engineering discovers that they dislike the subject and transfers to another school. Higher education leaders can be proactive in this pursuit by promoting innovation through a learner-centric, data-informed strategy. Lauría, E. R., & Baron, J.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

contributed to steady gains in college enrollment, although only 2% of the population earned a postsecondary degree. Colleges that began offering programs for professional training—such as business, accounting, engineering, and teaching—enjoyed enrollment bumps due to the popularity of these degree programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

By 2014 when his firm merged with the global law firm Cooley LLP, the higher education practice he headed was the largest and one of the highest regarded in the country. NYU, one of the largest, richest universities in the United States, up until the 1970s had a large, if not terribly distinguished engineering school. So those are.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, among the reasons that this society established one of the world’s first systems of public education was to prepare a citizenry capable of democratic self-government. But today, per-pupil federal spending on K-12 history and civics education averages $0.05

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To play on Socrates’ assertion that an “unexamined life is not worth living”—isn’t this another way of articulating the very point of especially secondary and postsecondary education? And isn’t that why education is a publicly funded civil right in America? I think it is.

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