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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Funding Research for Tier Two Institutions with NSF: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 165 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Podcast Highlights NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines is a $44 million investment that promotes competition and exploits the innate potential of the region through partnerships. Panchanathan is a leader in science, engineering, and education with more than three decades of experience. National Science Foundation (NSF).

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From the Classroom to the Streets

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What she didnt realize right away was that she could fuse her passion for social justice and advocacy with the world of academia. I could be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a disgrace to the entire family. Bernadette Atuahene Soon enough she would figure it out.

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

in 2014, which many student groups at the time said influenced their increased activism. He said, “I am growing tired of standing on principle while watching academia get sacked by latter-day Visigoths,” and, “This is war and our job is to vanquish them.”

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