Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 26, 2022

Black and Latinx students were also found to be more likely to leave their original field of study compared to their white and Asian counterparts and less likely to graduate within six years, particularly in STEM and business fields. Ad keywords: studentsuccess Editorial Tags: Disciplines Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, a program offered at the colleges and focused on increasing the number of underrepresented students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM fields, discriminates against students based on race and national origin.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

“Although designed to improve China’s prospect of becoming a global STEM leader, the program’s effectiveness in attracting top talents and nurturing their productivity is unclear,” write academics in the journal Science. institutions in some STEM fields. universities and institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Math for Liberal Arts is a college-level course designed for non-STEM students to appreciate math. Ben Weng is dean of STEM at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College. These pathways were received by the college community with enthusiasm. Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Critics of the proposal have argued that the requirement would pose an obstacle to students of color and low-income students because of inequities in STEM education at K-12 schools that disproportionately enroll these students. Ad keywords: teachinglearning Editorial Tags: Mathematics Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The teams are divided by industry or topic: arts and entertainment, business, communications, education and nonprofit, finance and consulting, government and law, health care, STEM, identity, life skills, or major. Click here to submit. Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” Ad keywords: administrators executive institutionalfinance Editorial Tags: College administration Sexual orientation Gay rights/issues Trustees/regents Is this diversity newsletter?: “Resizing budgets, academic prioritization, and new leadership will help position SPU to address many of the issues raised in the report.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Employers are also looking at younger talent and hiring STEM major undergraduates instead of just Ph.D. However, biotech is a difficult career path to break into for undergraduates, as there are fewer opportunities for bachelor’s degree–level positions, and internships and entry-level roles can be poorly defined.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

The moving nature of the presentation stemmed from the personal stories that the students shared—of losses within their family and friendship circles as well as of their steely resolve to overcome the challenges posed by Russia’s aggression. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Tavárez points to humanities research as being cheaper to conduct and fund than STEM disciplines. That is, STEM fields bring millions of dollars to the university and the humanities don’t. Editorial Tags: Humanities Is this diversity newsletter?: Let’s not create models that will undermine that.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Similarly, the response to “the liberal arts college” is based on often anachronistic images, slogans and symbols, not the diversity of such institutions, many of which now emphasize STEM or environmental studies. Section: Admissions Editorial Tags: Admissions Is this diversity newsletter?: 2022), 16-26.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The report confirms that while skills in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) correlate with high-earning post-graduation careers, other broad-base skills are also connected with successful post-graduation outcomes. This helps students have an understanding of and a motivation behind what they’re doing,” said Torpey-Saboe.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A professor in a STEM classroom, for instance, might introduce the actual tools or programs that a professional would use, she said, while a philosophy professor could link a lesson in ethics to current events, such as the debate over using ChatGPT as an educational tool.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Even more, as a study published last month showed, underrepresented minority students are less likely to pursue a degree in STEM fields after getting a low grade in an introductory course. Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Image Source: Screenshot/Elizabeth Redden/Inside Higher Ed Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

The program is funded by the New York State Education Department and supports underrepresented students pursuing careers in health sciences and STEM, Fordham’s CSTEP director, Mike Molina, explains. Both Molina and Alba would love to provide more students with on-campus housing opportunities—the primary challenge is funding.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Right now, college administrators are scrambling to prepare for the impending demographic cliff —a dramatic decline in the number of high school graduates set to hit in 2025, stemming from historically low birth rates in the decade following the 2008 recession. Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Redesigning learning spaces has been part of the AAU’s Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, which launched in 2011, and active learning classrooms on some campuses predate that effort. Much of the research on active learning and active learning spaces involves STEM courses. Furniture was rented or borrowed.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“That’s what I would point to as the most prominent selling point is this is a recruitment strategy to stem hemorrhaging enrollment.” ” Editorial Tags: Community College Image Source: kali9/E+/Getty Images Image Caption: A new report details the wide range of credentials now available.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Given the historic strength of the college’s STEM-related programs, the presence of a robust local and regional manufacturing base (and several Fortune 500 companies), and a ready student market, we began to contemplate the addition of an undergraduate electrical/mechanical engineering program set in the context of liberal education.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

He said the idea for the research stemmed from a National Science Foundation ADVANCE workshop at Clemson. ” Editorial Tags: Faculty Student Views on Faculty Image Source: University of Cincinnati Image Caption: Oriana Aragon Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

’s workforce in STEM in 2021, but only 18 percent of the field at that time identified as women, according to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. Student Success Editorial Tags: Student Success Image Source: KPMG Image Caption: Break Through Tech New York and D.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fay is a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, who studies developmental education reform, STEM education, dual-enrollment programs and guided pathways.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. ” William & Mary’s emerging STEM emphasis and “premier public research university” self-description depart from that identity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But mostly he sees the problem stemming from a lack of resources. ” Community Colleges Editorial Tags: Facilities Public Safety Image Source: Bronx Community College Image Caption: Bronx Community College students had unheated classrooms for the last month. Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Called Women in Math, Science and Engineering (WIMSE) and housed at Cawthon Hall, the LLC promotes women’s success in STEM. Student Success Editorial Tags: Student Success Image Source: Flickr/Denison University Image Caption: Living-learning communities connect students to academic and personal development under a shared topic.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

” ‘Unfortunate Events’ She continued, this “whole unfortunate set of events stems from the phasing out of pure faculty governance to the concept of shared governance in which there is an administrative hand in everything.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“The traditional [professor-student] relationship is one that’s very much rooted in impersonal professionalism,” said Michelle Pacansky-Brock, a faculty mentor for digital innovation with the California Community College system who is also the lead principal investigator on a project focused on humanizing online STEM classes.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

” Pacansky-Brock, who is the lead principal investigator on a project focused on humanizing online STEM classes, coined the term “liquid syllabus” in a 2014 blog post. “It’s scanning for verbal and nonverbal cues. It’s looking for a smiling face or a warm gesture.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cheaper tuition in the humanities could induce poor or working-class students to major in the humanities even when they have an aptitude for STEM fields. Editorial Tags: Humanities Tuition Image Source: Ihor Reshetniak/iStock/Getty Images Plus Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 19, 2022

” Fraternities across the country are butting heads with institutions over increased oversight, largely stemming from concerns around harmful hazing rituals , rampant sexual assault , alcohol and drug abuse , and racially insensitive traditions. “The only way to attack a systemic problem is with a systemic solution.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The program’s price tag varies from state to state but hovers around $5,000 for the courses and certification. “Teacher shortages are placing enormous pressure on schools to accept things that they haven’t been willing to accept in the past.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

” Quipped yet another reader: “All STEM and no poetry makes Jack a dull boy.” In a century, fusion will illuminate, propel, cultivate, analyze, nurture and enliven this world. That is not long, compared to the photons’ journey. Turn poetry forward.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Oftentimes you think STEM means tech. STEM majors benefit from having training in arts and humanities fields; they need to be able to communicate, to work with others, and they often take courses in those majors to broaden their experience. Student Aid and Loans Editorial Tags: College costs/prices Is this diversity newsletter?:

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The PIE News

JUNE 8, 2023

However, in a year where there was an expectation that the attendance would be bigger than ever before, others at NAFSA also disclosed to The PIE that the conference’s steeper price tag somewhat did not reflect the experience they may have been able to get out of it.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

’” To this list, he might have added HBO’s current hit: the postapocalyptic The Last of Us captures the current mood of English departments, which see one prospective student after another infected by the STEM and business bugs. Editorial Tags: English Image Source: Warner Bros. Discovery Is this diversity newsletter?:

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

While it is true that they are getting close to being indistinguishable from photos, as Alexander points out, “they have to be closely scrutinized if anyone wants to use them” as they might have “uniforms with fake credentials or tags on them, people with too many arms, etc.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Inclusive Teaching Sara Brownell, a professor of life sciences and director of the Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center at Arizona State University, studies how to make science learning environments more inclusive, with a focus on concealable, stigmatized identities. Share your feedback here.

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