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“Courage, Creativity and Confidence” – Celebrating the Class of 2021

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

At Lorain County Community College, we celebrated the class of 2021 with unforgettable tributes to our remarkable graduates. In short, the class of 2021 is remarkably resilient and will make an impact on our world like no other. To the class of 2021, congratulations on your emerging life of value as a college graduate.”.

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Families still chasing money in Kenyan scandal

The PIE News

The scandal first came to light earlier this year when a group of Kenyan students enrolled in universities in Finland since September 2021 faced expulsion from campuses and subsequent deportation. The Commission is expected to submit its conclusion to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the coming weeks.

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

One of the reasons engineering is neglected in the school curriculum is perhaps because it is (wrongly) considered analogous to applied sciences and mathematics. Are these not traits wed want to instil in every school-leaver? Thats a deeply reductive view.

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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. times as many as the 2005/06 figure. Read it here.

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Gonzaga launches mentored tech boot camps

Inside Higher Ed

In one 2021 Student Voice survey , nearly half of students couldn’t name a single mentor, even one they’d found on their own. Image: Students benefit from mentors, but structured mentorship isn’t part of many academic programs. ” Gonzaga is Springboard’s 10th university partnership.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” As Axios explains, “The school’s entire annual operating expense in 2021 was $1.86 The fact is that Princeton is not a research powerhouse in the applied sciences. In 2021, after the endowment had risen to $53 billion, the first-year class consisted of 1,675 freshmen.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.