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NYU Puts $1 Billion Into Brooklyn Engineering School

Inside Higher Ed

New York University will invest $1 billion in its Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, adding $400 million to the $600 million it had already pledged to the school. NYU has invested heavily in the engineering school since essentially acquiring it in a 2014 merger with Polytechnic University. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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A Decade-Long State Chancellorship Is Ending. Board Members Won’t Say Why.

Inside Higher Ed

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors before voting unanimously to end Mark Hagerott’s time as chancellor. In 2015, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education hired Mark Hagerott to lead the state’s system of 11 public colleges and universities.

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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While working at AT&T as an engineer, she joined the company’s group for Hispanic employees and was asked to go speak to a class of middle school students in Newark, New Jersey. One of the biggest holes that we had in this educational pipeline was the validation, the exposure to role models,” she says. She gladly agreed.

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Fuchs Returns to Leadership as Florida’s Interim President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fuchs served as the university’s 12th president from January 2015 to February 2023, before taking a yearlong sabbatical. He returned this year to teach electrical engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. He previously served as provost of Cornell University.

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Teaching Marketing Students to Create GenAI-driven Social Media Content 

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Marketing educators face the challenge of equipping students with practical skills that reflect current industry trends. Adding instruction on prompt engineering, especially specific prompt engineering for creating social media posts, will be important. Journal of Marketing Education , 41 (1), 47-59. References Bruns, A.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.