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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based Morgan, a recent computer science Ph.D.

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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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Report: International graduate student enrollment booms by 100% since the pandemic

University Business

since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that since fall 2020, total graduate enrollment has grown by 1.2% , undercut by a 1.2% However, China’s rate of applications has dwindled by 19% since fall 2020, while India’s rate of applications has grown by 94%.

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

Inside Higher Ed

percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. That’s 2,974 fewer than in 2020. awarded between the 2019 and 2020 academic years. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic.

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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

Culture is the lens through which individuals perceive and make sense of their surroundings, influencing human development and cognition. Culture is also part of human development and influences cognitive, social, and psychological aspects of human development. Procedia Computer Science, 172, 3-8. pdf (ed.gov).

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. As with so much else mid-2020, this model had to be abandoned.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pathways for Careers in Manufacturing and Engineering, a joint effort from Cal State Fullerton’s Extension and International Programs and the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has received $211,000 to spark community college students’, high schoolers’, and eventually, middle schoolers’ interest in the field of biomanufacturing.