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CREATE-ing a More Accessible World Through Technology

Insight Into Diversity

Founded in 2019 through gifts from Microsoft and private donors totaling $5 million, the center’s mission is to advance accessible technology and ensure that people with disabilities are active participants in shaping the future by uniting faculty, students, and staff across disciplines. “All

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Geisler last summer.

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Why AI is about to become an integral part of higher education

University Business

In July 2022, more than 500 tech and education leaders issued a call to action advocating for the expansion of computer science education opportunities for students. This might be the single most important challenge in the history of the U.S. Less than a year later, education technology has come much further than we anticipated.

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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2019, for example, the Student Assembly submitted its own report advocating for increased emphasis in data fluency throughout the curriculum (note if you would like to see how exceptional W&M students are I recommend you read this report). In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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Number of Ph.D.s conferred dropped 5.4% in 2021

Inside Higher Ed

awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. But they really couldn’t say how big a factor, because the survey period of July 2019 to June 2020 covered just the first—albeit intense—few months of the pandemic. Mathematics and computer science and engineering stayed relatively steady year over year.

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The Midlife Crisis’s ‘Evil Younger Brother’: The Quarter-Life Crisis

Inside Higher Ed

” More contemporary accounts, like Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 British Book of the Year–winning Queenie , also deals with the struggle to chart a direction in life, find a job and forge meaningful relationships and define an identity separate and apart from one’s parents’ expectations.

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