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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. In numbers, 52,250 research doctorates were awarded across fields in 2021. The survey period for the forthcoming report ran from July 2020 to June 2021, a full year of the pandemic. production in 2021 to COVID-19.

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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 ” It goes on, “Even a few decades ago, no one could have fully anticipated future investments in computer science, quantum computing, or climate science—fields where Princeton is now a leader.”

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

The PIE News

Enrolments for those remaining are dipping both for domestic students, and despite a slight uptick in the 2021/22 academic year, dipping for international students too. Understanding the competencies mastered in the study of English, history, the arts, or other creative disciplines opens possible career paths.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. First, pressures on young people from middle school forward to concentrate in engineering, computer science, or business for job security only increased. My pursuing the Ph.D.

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough?

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The initial concept of a new entity or school came to the administration organically, from faculty in computer science (the data science program is part of CS) and applied science who are managing the surge in enrollment. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.