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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.

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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Armory Track is a renowned indoor track and field facility in Washington Heights, Manhattan in New York. ACP is open to fourth through 12th graders who have trained or competed or currently train at the facility. John’s University, was the assistant director and then director of ACP from 2009 to 2014.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Inside Higher Ed

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school. It’s necessary.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Even so, President Sacks acknowledged that leaders must also tend their own garden: “I recognized that we needed serious facilities upgrades in nursing. I'm teaching people welding and diesel mechanics and electrical engineering, and those things are wonderful, but those students aren't reading a lot of classic literature.