University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. In 2022, HBCUs awarded 8.8% In 2022, HBCUs awarded 13.5%

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

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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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2023

In what was anticipated to be a year filled with cyber threats by increasingly dangerous criminal actors, the number of ransomware attacks aimed at educational institutions in 2022 was nearly the same as in 2021. — FBI (@FBI) September 6, 2022. Is this cause for celebration? link] pic.twitter.com/qHgeQBBns5.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. Estimates suggest that in the 2022/23 academic year, over 54,000 students on F-1 visas may have been refugees.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

“When you say you’re going to welcome people in, you can do it with a slogan or a campaign, but that’s only the visuals,” says Joseph Becherer, director of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. However, the newly opened Raclin Murphy Museum of Art signifies a return to relevance.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 24, 2024

We honor innovators like Yejin Choi , UW professor of computer science, who was awarded the 2022 MacArthur Genius Grant and named one of Time’s 2023 “ 100 Most Influential People in AI,” for her groundbreaking research and discoveries in artificial intelligence.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Universities such as Rose Bruford College, Leeds Arts University, University of Guelph, EHL and University College Birmingham conducted sessions for high school counsellors and principals from over 75 schools in India. A recent survey revealed that over 75% of students in India now prefer to pursue arts or humanities for higher studies.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

Along with the ADT programs, Coastline offers a certificate of achievement in business and six associate degree programs in the arts and sciences: American studies, arts and humanities, general business, science and math, social and behavioral sciences, and sociology.

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Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 17, 2022

( “The Library of the Distant Future,” as envisioned by Midjourney, when I was let into the beta in March 2022.). But then again, it also competently echoed the science fiction book covers of my childhood. But they also helpfully highlight, by contrast, the nature of truly creative art.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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ACRLog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Alejandro Marquez (Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of Denver Libraries) and Brady Niemitalo Woods (Patron Training Specialist at Jefferson County Public Library, Colorado). The fall semester started recently, marking the beginning of a new school year.

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Coursera blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We recently caught up with two of UNT’s May 2022 graduates, Venessa Ricketts and Adan Salinas. Hear why they chose to enroll in the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences program at UNT, what aspects of the program they found most valuable, and their advice for anyone who wants to finish their college degree online.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 2, 2024

For example, in 1980, they represented approximately 18% of the adult population, but the number dropped to approximately 6% by 2022, according to “The Changing Face of America’s Veteran Population,” a 2023 study by the Pew Research Center. The demographics of veterans continue to change. million military service members. …

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph will be the commencement speaker for Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences on May 14. She will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts degree in the process. Legacy matters," Ralph said. Ralph is a health advocate and AIDS activist.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are a few of the innovative designs developed by researchers for people with disabilities at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The researchers developed PURE over the last five years with grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The winners of the Achievers honours 2024: Arts, culture and education Asma Khan | Graduated from King’s College London Khan founded the Darjeeling Express after starting the business as a home supper club. The India-UK Achievers Honours celebrate the professional and social contributions of Indians who have studied in the UK.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

According to the report, which includes 2022 data from the National Crime Records Bureau, regionally, the Southern states and union territories make up the highest proportion of student suicides at 29%. The 2022 NCRB report recorded a total of 13,044 student suicides, representing an insignificant decrease of 0.3%

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It launched a similar program in product management in 2022. “This is a really innovative way of addressing a serious skills gap and shortage in the labour market,” co-director of the DSI, Mark Kennedy said, a point also picked up by HyperionDev’s founder and CEO, Riaz Moola.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar. Is there also a role for the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) to play in meeting future skills and workforce needs?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0, percentage points, respectively).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

At the online university where I work, students are introduced to the idea of growth and fixed mindsets upon entrance to college programming; furthermore, research indicates that multiple direct and indirect exposures to growth mindset interventions result in statistically significant positive attitudinal changes (Chambers, Lowe, and Muldrow, 2022).

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused. Remember the why. Consider and focus on who DEI helps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. The idea to create a cannabis studies program at the Salem, Virginia school came from a faculty discussion in 2022 about out-of-the-box curriculum ideas.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

From fall 2021 to fall 2022, first-time enrollment increased by 8%, and international graduate applications grew by 26%. decrease in enrollment in fall 2022. graduate studies, amassing 63% of all applications in fall 2022. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. It’s the only program not to dip across the pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. ” Those words give vivid expression to a deep divide between those who value creative writing and the arts and those who attach the greatest importance to scientific inquiry, I sense that my students tend to fall into one of two camps.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. 2022), 16-26. 2022), 16-26. " Sept.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

As AI has its recent surge in prominence in the mainstream – from art to tech – Intelligent.com surveyed 1,223 current undergraduate and graduate students – age 18-30 – about their views on one of the more well-known tools, ChatGPT, which was launched in November 2022. And of students who did not already have a 4.0

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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HEPI

MAY 25, 2024

We previously published chapters by David Willetts , Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, Chloe Field , Vice President for Higher Education at the National Union of Students , and Jo Johnson , former Minister of State for Universities and Science (2015). University funding is not working. This is good.

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