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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

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Yuliang Zhang, chair of UAB’s computer science department. million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs. 32 students will be selected over five years.

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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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Aus: PhD visa delays ‘damaging reputation’

The PIE News

Now, tired of deferring, Hamed has secured another scholarship at a UK university. . 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. .

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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“Not just a helicopter campus” – Coventry’s bid to maintain links with Wroc?aw campus

The PIE News

” In 2017, King’s College London suggested its research partnership already in place with Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, known as transCampus, could see it create a European campus. .” Currently more than 100 students are enrolled on courses focusing on cyber security, computing science and business management.

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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.