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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 This grant is a renewal of the previous grant we received in 2017; but it is double in amount this time, which truly speaks to our commitment to preparing the best professionals who meet the ever-changing needs of the industry.”

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

This page will be continuously updated as University Business monitors the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond. The small art college will be renamed Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, and it will retain its current campus. (Updated: Feb.

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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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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. Mexico accounts for a major chunk of the top universities in Latin America. How has that number changed over recent years? What are the top sending countries for the destination?

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Finney, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. Graduate student enrollment, which boomed during the pandemic, decreased for the first time since 2017, declining 1.2 percent in 2021.

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Aus: PhD visa delays ‘damaging reputation’

The PIE News

PhD students from countries including Iran, China and Pakistan who hold offers from Australian universities say they have been waiting up to three years to obtain visas. Iranian student Hamed received an offer for a PhD course in electrical engineering from an Australian university.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. Lana Duke is a Chickasaw citizen and graduated from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2024.