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Hewlett Foundation Awards $20M to Diversify Cybersecurity Field

Insight Into Diversity

Cybersecurity, like many STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, has been historically male-dominated and lacks diversity. At FIU, the funds will bolster the Cybersecurity@FIU program, enabling the university to enhance its teaching and research capabilities in the field and support the recruitment of students.

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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. Read it here.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. Rowe asked the audience, “What is changing in your discipline?”

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU. Take a stroll through campus and you’ll find visible markers of how the minoritized community shaped the institution dating back decades.

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Creating career-ready graduates

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

In 2018, LCCC made history again as the first community college to deliver an applied bachelor’s degree in MEMS. As automation continues to be at the forefront of manufacturing, LCCC is preparing a local workforce with a new applied bachelor’s degree currently in development.