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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9 are immense.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. 16, 2003) 5. From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. White House Honoree, Jan. Mississippi’s Crusading Gadfly,” Jan.

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How micro-credentials are spurring deeper collaboration between community college and employers

University Business

Local adult learners and veterans seeking to diversify their skillsets in other high-demand careers have turned to the community college in droves since it opened in 2003. The latter cover semiconductors, AI engineering and EV batteries. “It’s the great unbundling,” Larson says.

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Students left out of Texas A&M’s Qatar decision

The PIE News

Texas A&M University opened its Doha campus in 2003 in partnership with the state-led Qatar Foundation which funds all campus operations. The campus specialises in engineering and is one of six American universities that has a location in Doha’s Education City, all focussing on different areas of academic study.

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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

LeBlanc became President of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) in 2003. From 1993 to 1996 he directed a technology start-up for Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, was President of Marlboro College (VT) from 1996 to 2003. A Conversation With Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

Lesson #7: Creative thinking Teach creativity through the lens of the Innovation Engine created by Stanford professor Tina Seelig. The Innovation Engine demonstrates that creativity can be cultivated by using a scaffolded set of ideas to shift and change the perspective of an idea to create something original. Kabat-Zinn, J (2003).

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background. Very similar to software engineering.