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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

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. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Seed Investments Fund 15 Research Collaborations Between Virginia Tech and Minority-Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to Since launching in 2016, the program has grown, with its list of partner schools expanding and new Virginia Tech departments taking part. to bolster research on campus.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lingle serves as dean of the School of Applied Sciences and Business, College of the Desert, and is a retired undersheriff and chief operating officer of the Riverside County, California Sheriff’s Department. If new officers are to be successful in our communities, they must be properly equipped with cultural competence.

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UPenn’s ‘Eidos’ Project Tackles LGBTQ+ Health Inequity, Discrimination

Insight Into Diversity

Eidos has connected Trace with experts across multiple university departments, including engineering, public health, business, and marketing, to assist in strengthening its business model and the application’s user experience.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Q&A: Jayathi Murthy Works to Deliver Higher Education Across Oregon

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

A mechanical engineer with decades of experience in both academia and industry, she was previously the dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. EDTECH: Oregon State is seeing enrollment growth during a difficult moment for higher education, and its Ecampus program is a driver of that trend.…

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

The fact is that Princeton is not a research powerhouse in the applied sciences. Why do departments impose such restrictions? Why do departments impose such restrictions? Capacity constraints are a factor, but so is a desire to raise a department’s rankings. No, its programs in those areas are tiny.

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