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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

“It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ ’ 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.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

I think I can be a much better partner with the next chancellor, because I know the demands that come under time, I know the requests that come from the outside, and I can help them channel it, and help my deans and vice provosts, be more responsive to what they see coming.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. . Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

Parham was appointed president of CSU Dominguez Hills in March 2018. He has a desire to go to medical school. He takes the bus two-and-a-half hours a day, he goes to school, and he is essentially teaching himself how to be a student. Parham Thomas A. Nedrich left community college to go to Sac State with a 4.0.