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Campus sustainability: Where the U.S. lands in the world rankings

University Business

Each school was graded on attention to climate change, clean energy, water conservation, waste recycling, green transportation and sustainability education and research. school is the University of California, Davis, which landed at No. The highest-ranked U.S. The University of Connecticut placed 10th. The next highest-ranking U.S.

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India a ‘target country’ for Finland’s Talent Boost program

The PIE News

Of course the companies do a lot for their own workforces, I hope that Finnish vocational training institutes and universities of applied sciences develop more contacts with their Indian counterparts. Finland International School, an initiative by Indian business conglomerate Goenka Inc.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

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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Using Generative AI to “Hack Time” for Implementing Real-World Projects

Faculty Focus

We piloted the two bots in a Strategic Communications course taught at the NYU School of Professional Studies, Division of Programs in Business, during the spring 2024 semester. Dr. Steven Goss is the dean of the School of Professional Studies at Manhattan College. So, how did the bots do?

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Ask not what you can do for engineering…

HEPI

This piece considers how the school curriculum can be adapted to develop creativity, practical skills, and inclusive, real-world learning. It might be reasonable then to suppose that the school curriculum would be designed to prepare pupils for a sector that accounts for a fifth of UK jobs and a quarter of vacancies. [i]

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Finland’s visa processing issues resulting in “bottleneck”

The PIE News

A survey of Finland’s universities of applied sciences has revealed that increasing numbers of students are finding themselves unable to enter the country due to visa issues. . The identification process is currently the crux of the problem, according to schools in the survey.

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Binghamton University Looking to Hire 30 Replacement Faculty and 36 New Faculty with $6.5 Million SUNY Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The end goal is to boost BU’s national research profile, according to the school. Over half the money – $3.9 million – will be used for salaries, and the rest will fund faculty benefits, according to BingUNews. BU deans were asked to create proposals for the new faculty positions. Like broaden their horizons on stuff they’re interested in.

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