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Performance-based admissions open the door to a master’s in electrical engineering.

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Allen Xu enrolled in the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS-EE) on Coursera when it was first announced in May of 2019. My background is in mechanical engineering with experience in III-IV compound semiconductor manufacturing. I worked mostly with electrical engineers on process development and integration.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

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million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 percent.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships.

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Are graduation rates and input or an output? (redux)

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Some programs (engineering, or accounting, for instance) will often be five-year programs by design, so lower rates at institutions with these types of programs will usually show up lower on this criterion. A note: I used 2019 mean SAT and ACT scores because that is the last "normal" year prior to COVID.

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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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MIT Exonerates Professor—After 3.5-Year Wait

Inside Higher Ed

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally announced it had exonerated Ram Sasisekharan, a biological engineering professor, after a three-and-a-half-year research misconduct investigation.

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New Video Series Showcases Research on Black Males Navigating and Succeeding in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A brand-new video series that highlights the diverse experiences of Black boys and men in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields, has launched under the direction of a prominent researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We Dr. Brian A. Dr. Brian A.