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

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. percent between 2020 and 2021, the steepest decline ever for the NSF’s annual census of new Ph.D.s. percent decline in Ph.D.s

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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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

The PIE News

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.

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Howard Awarded Nearly $1M for HIV Prevention Among Black Women

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Prevention, Arts and Advocacy, Community, Education) initiative. Black women were 54% of new HIV diagnoses in 2021 among women, age 16 and older, in the U.S., Setting the P.A.C.E.

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These 18 schools are offering the most competitive AI tracks for undergrads

University Business

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. The school offers a B.S.

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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.