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Hewlett Foundation Awards $20M to Diversify Cybersecurity Field

Insight Into Diversity

Cybersecurity, like many STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, has been historically male-dominated and lacks diversity. FAMU will create a Cyber Policy Institute to integrate science-based and market-oriented domains of knowledge to help students develop expertise.

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

Insight Into Diversity

She points to differing LGBTQ+ laws and policies in each state, such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and bans in over 20 states for best-practice medical care for transgender youth. In 2020, for every $100 awarded by U.S. The political climate also makes work more difficult, she says. Research affirms this assertion.

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Wentworth Institute of Technology to Drop Pre-Calculus Admissions Requirement for STEM Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those looking to apply to Wentworth are required to have four years of English, a mathematics course on the level of Algebra II, and one laboratory science course under their belt. But that course may not be the best way to prepare for those looking to pursue careers in engineering or computer science, Donovan said.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. The program includes a science fest, monthly virtual STEM nights, and a summer camp on campus.

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Netherlands: call for higher education funding rethink in ongoing international debate

The PIE News

Last year, Dutch minister for Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, told The PIE in an exclusive interview that the country was searching for an “optimal” number of international students, while he praised the role of student and researcher international exchanges. Read it here.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. Today, of course, those professions include communication, journalism, hotel and restaurant management, library science, nursing, psychology, social work, and much more.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Western Michigan University Provost Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction. at Stanford.

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