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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After earning her bachelor’s degree, Jackson became the first African American woman to receive a doctorate at MIT. It is designed to increase RPI’s global impact and address the overarching challenges in energy, water, food security, national and global security, human health, climate change and the growing scarcity of natural resources.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. From the end of the nineteenth century Oxford and Cambridge experimented with postgraduate Bachelors degrees awarded on the basis of a piece of original research.

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Mission: Possible – how universities can reach their institutional ambitions

The PIE News

Data from Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital shows that the global population will rise to above nine billion in the next 25 years, with some two billion more learners in education by 2050. The enrolment cliff projecting a 15% decline in US college students between 2025 and 2029 only exacerbates this further.