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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development. Behavioral Sciences,12 (12), 511. References Byrd, C.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 1998 proposition eliminated most bilingual programs in California schools, and although it was reversed in 2016, there is still a shortage of teachers who speak multiple languages. We have the human capital to prepare students [for] these roles.” At the same time, the program will help employers build their workforces.

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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development. Behavioral Sciences,12 (12), 511. References Byrd, C.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year. Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent. I wonder how many of the humanities Ph.D.s

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. “These are not fly-by-night political arguments; these are serious charges,” he said.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

Departments and programs recommended for strategic investment, meanwhile, were Black studies, community and justice studies, computer science, education studies, environmental science, and political science. All other programs—including Chinese—were to be maintained.

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Fine arts, communications degrees qualify as STEM for immigrants

Inside Higher Ed

Many of the 22 new qualifying fields of study on the updated government list, including general forestry, cloud computing and geobiology, fall within conventional understanding of STEM fields. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts.

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