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Hoke’s Notes – The Plight of Small Colleges

Edu Alliance Journal

Urbana had been an integral part of the community since 1850, serving as a significant economic engine. Dean Hoke is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Edu Alliance, an international higher education consultancy and podcast co-host of Higher Ed Without Borders and Small College America. Hoke has a B.A. from Urbana University, an M.S.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Leonardo Seoane, executive vice president and chief academic officer of Ochsner Health, and first appointed dean of XOCOM. It will take partnerships like Xavier and Ochsner’s, and educational commitment at all levels to improve STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] education and providing advanced placement courses.

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

Inside Higher Ed

Kelly Kang, who manages the survey for the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, said the pandemic indeed “appears to be one of the factors in a significant decline in the number of doctorate recipients in 2021.” Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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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. Stylus, Publishing, LLC.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This endeavor was announced last week, with its first publication, The Journal of Ecological Engineering Design, released that week as well. "It It is indeed completely free,” said Dr. Bryn Geffert, dean of libraries at UVM. “It Geffert himself has prior experience with o pen-access models.

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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. Stylus, Publishing, LLC.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1