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A US university has a new requirement to graduate: take a climate change course

The Guardian - Higher Education

UC San Diego has added an innovative prerequisite to ‘prepare students for the future they really will encounter’ Melani Callicott, a human biology major at the University of California, San Diego, thinks about the climate crisis all the time. About 7,000 students from the class of 2028 will be affected this year. Continue reading.

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The Guild advises “openness” in European R&I

The PIE News

The Guild has also emphasised the importance of social sciences and arts and humanities being included in the new framework. “Of course, these fields are important in their own right, but they’re also important so we can safely introduce new technologies to society and see the societal implications of those technologies,” Otterson added.

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. billion by 2028 (Fortune Business Insights, 2022). Billion in 2028. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

The use of VR in teaching offers distinct advantages over more traditional representation modes such as text, picture, video, or 3D models, as it engages most of the senses that humans use when navigating real-world environments. billion by 2028 (Fortune Business Insights, 2022). Billion in 2028. 2018; Zhao et al.,

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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Inside Higher Ed

” Christina Cecil, the system’s chief human resources officer, said some out-of-state job candidates wanted to remain where they are and work remotely. She pointed out that, given demographic shifts and the decline in the number of working-age adults, the American workforce is expected to shrink by six million people by 2028.

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Euro research unis advise R&I “openness”

The PIE News

The Guild has also emphasised the importance of social sciences and arts and humanities being included in the new framework. “Of course, these fields are important in their own right, but they’re also important so we can safely introduce new technologies to society and see the societal implications of those technologies,” Ottersen added.

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What 70+ higher ed leaders are saying about staff recruitment and retention in today’s competitive labor market

EAB

To help leadership teams understand where the industry is trending and what improvements they must make to compete, we surveyed chief business officers and chief human resources officers about the current state of higher ed staffing and turnover, talent infrastructure and investments, and staff recruitment and retention practices.