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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. The AIHC was launched by Kent Smith in 2017. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

At the Louisiana State School of Veterinary Medicine, a veterinary anatomy pre-course correlated with improved exam grades and reduced anxiety (McNulty and Lazarus, 2018). Similarly, at Lincoln Memorial Osteopathic Medical School, pre-matriculation anatomy boot camps led to higher gross anatomy exam scores (Herling et al.

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Whither the College or University Presidency

Inside Higher Ed

In a thoughtful 2017 opinion piece in The Washington Post , the prolific higher education observer Jeffrey J. That vision may be highly ambitious, for example, becoming a Tier 1 research institution and adding a medical school, or more focused: dramatically increasing the number of underrepresented students who enter STEM fields.

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Advocating for Student Preparedness with the Implementation of a Pre-Course 

Faculty Focus

At the Louisiana State School of Veterinary Medicine, a veterinary anatomy pre-course correlated with improved exam grades and reduced anxiety (McNulty and Lazarus, 2018). Similarly, at Lincoln Memorial Osteopathic Medical School, pre-matriculation anatomy boot camps led to higher gross anatomy exam scores (Herling et al.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.) The Higher Education Research Act of 2017 gave the Office for Students the powers to permit a higher education provider to grant degrees but failed to distinguish ‘taught’ and ‘research’ degree-awarding powers (DAPS).

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Houston is the future; higher ed is stuck in past (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. Between 2013 and 2017, the percentage of Houstonians agreeing with the phrase “education beyond high school is necessary for success” fell from 73 percent to 54 percent.

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Higher ed must change or die (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

If the company did not urgently adapt and reclaim its role as a leader in telecommunications and information technology innovation, it risked losing everything. Temple University is a public, R-1 research university in a major East Coast city with a medical school and health system. Sound familiar?

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