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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. Dr. Teik Lim “My family did not have much money, but with the help of a generous undergraduate scholarship from Michigan Tech, I was able to support myself through college and become the first member of my family to earn a college degree,” said Lim.

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Welcome Tricia Serio, our next UW Provost and Executive VP

UW Presidential Blog

It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Tricia Serio has accepted the role of Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington. As Provost at UMass Amherst, she launched and led initiatives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for faculty, staff and students.

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HBCU Conference Connects Secondary to Postsecondary

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. David Thomas, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, and Dr. Damara Hightower Mitchell, provost and vice-president of Voorhees University in Denmark, SC, said their schools offer summer programming opportunities, giving students across the U.S. HBCUs graduate students at significantly higher rates and prepare them for success in life.”

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The Promise and Challenges of AI in Higher Ed

WCET Frontiers

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom. Faculty at dozens of other institutions have been granted access to the course through course licenses and scholarships.

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

HEPI

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. We must invest in research and technology if the country wants to attract global talent and compete internationally.

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3 Questions About Extended Reality and Online Learning

Inside Higher Ed

Recent years have seen institutions experiment with integrating extended reality into their teaching and research on campus, and there has been no shortage of ambitious predictions about the technology’s potential impact. Q1: Why integrate extended reality experiences into open, online courses?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.