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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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HBCUs: Catalysts for Economic Empowerment and Community Growth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For over 150 years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have not only been sites of academic excellence but also powerful economic engines in their local and regional communities, leaving a lasting mark on the nation's landscape. Dr. Levon T. billion to their local and regional economies. Dr. Levon T.

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Birmingham and IIT Madras reveal joint masters

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The institutions have signed a collaborative “statement of intent” to explore data science, energy systems and biomedical engineering study, while the joint research fund will support academics and researchers and potential research partnerships in the same areas.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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A new college-prep program for rural Wyoming students

Inside Higher Ed

“Jack” Ellbogen Dean of the University of Wyoming College of Education. ” Lisa Larson, head of the Community College Growth Engine Fund at the Education Design Lab, said she encountered this concern when she was president of Eastern Maine Community College. Department of Agriculture.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. in 2018, down from the 1987 peak of 37 percent. Merkle dropped the class and worked on the project on his own.

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

Physics and engineering have long experimented with studio and collaborative design space concepts that have much in common with general purpose active learning classrooms. Weaver Science-Engineering Library, in a previously underused gym and in the main library. ” The Active Learning Spacescape.