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University of Alabama at Birmingham Awarded $4.6 Million Grant Renewal to Bolster Cybersecurity Workforce Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This renewal grant is the largest grant our department has received, which shows NSF’s trust in our vision to educate and train a world-class, diverse group of students who are ready to address real-world computer security and artificial intelligence challenges,” said Dr. Yuliang Zhang, chair of UAB’s computer science department.

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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based based tenure-track faculty members across eight disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities. Morgan, a recent computer science Ph.D.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

More from UB: Computer science degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Northland College has operated at a deficit for eight years, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports. Full-time student enrollment dropped 69% between 2017 and 2021. However, Union seems to have been struggling before the pandemic, WCPO reports.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

Graduate student enrollment, which boomed during the pandemic, decreased for the first time since 2017, declining 1.2 Of the top five majors represented in the report, only business saw increases from last year, while health professions, liberal arts, biological and biomedical sciences, and engineering all continued to drop.

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A brief look at … Mexico

The PIE News

In the past seven years, there has been a 175% increase in Mexico’s international student population – which stood at 20,322 international students in 2017. The largest proportion of Mexico’s international students come to study engineering, followed by physical & life sciences and mathematics & computer sciences.

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Probing the Value of Online Student-Student Interaction

Faculty Focus

Chang and Smith (2008) studied student engagement in a computer science course, again through a student survey. More recently in 2017, Kurukay and Inan launched a survey of students, some of whom were in an online class with student-student interaction, and others who were in an online class without such interaction.

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Aus: PhD visa delays ‘damaging reputation’

The PIE News

I am worried that we’ll see a decline in our ability to recruit top PhD students in the coming years,” said Clément Canonne, a computer science lecturer at the University of Sydney. . This is nearly twice the number of offshore student visas granted for this cohort over the same period in 2017/18 through to 2020/21.”.