Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million individuals with college degrees and 2.9 million Americans.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Alejandro “Alex” Hernandez has officially been inaugurated as the 10th president of Champlain College. Alejandro Hernandez “Education creates opportunity, and I’ve dedicated my life to the idea that we can build institutions that get students READY, not by luck or privilege, but by design,” Hernandez said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Students from 77 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are set to participate as HBCU Scholars in the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona. We couldn’t be prouder to support them on their journey.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

Morehouse College has received an anonymous, $20 million gift to expand academic programs and professorships at the college. At Morehouse, we are developing men with integrity and intellect to become 21st-century leaders and innovators,” said Provost Dr. Kendrick Brown.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The University of Wyoming (UW) and five community colleges in the state are building a faculty network to share best practices and make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive. The IE3 initiative will function similarly to a pilot program instituted by UW and NWC in July 2022.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

McPherson College has received the largest single commitment to a small U.S. liberal arts college, potentially resulting in the school receiving $750 million for its endowment. The Kansas liberal arts school has raised $130 million so far. The donor can either pay over time or the total is due in full upon death.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. As higher education faces growing pressure to invest in academic programs that provide direct pathways to a career, many resource-strapped colleges have responded by making significant cuts to their liberal arts offerings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

College students who graduate as English majors actually find jobs at about the same rate as those who major in other subjects, according to a recent report commissioned by the Modern Language Association (MLA). According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

19 proposals were accepted for the Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science; 13 for the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences; two for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; one for the School of Management; and one for the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The grant – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – is a first-of-its-kind awarded to a historically Black college or university (HBCU) through the NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences , Office of Integrative Activities , and HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) integrated programs, for this type of research.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. News & World Report, Computer Science Degree Hub and TechTarget. The school offers a B.S. Arizona State University: Offers a B.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

government resources and contributions from independent research centers, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Humanities Alliance and the Hamilton Project. The unemployment rate for English majors was 2.3%, which is near that of all college graduates and those on different academic paths.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

What are the top 10 most regretted college majors? What may just as noteworthy as what’s on that list is that nearly half of all current job seekers regret their choice of college major, a new ZipRecruiter survey says. The survey asked graduates whether they would choose the same major if they could do college all over again.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. 10 online panel – hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) – invited a number of scholars in higher ed to weigh in on the potential and challenges that AI tools may bring to the field. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In partnerships announced this week, Imperial College London has linked up with online coding bootcamp provider HyperionDev. Across town King’s College London has revealed a new UX Design Career Accelerator program with FourthRev, building on a previous partnership.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

million grant through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Loury Floyd The grant is expected to fund eight scholarships annually over five years for Master of Arts in teaching students pursuing careers teaching STEM at the secondary level.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Katherine Banks Banks’s resignation comes after the resignation of the dean of the school’s College of Arts and Sciences stepped down. During a meeting with the Faculty Senate, Banks had said that she was sorry that McElroy would not be joining Texas A&M and that she was embarrassed by how the school handled the situation.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The winners of the Achievers honours 2024: Arts, culture and education Asma Khan | Graduated from King’s College London Khan founded the Darjeeling Express after starting the business as a home supper club. The India-UK Achievers Honours celebrate the professional and social contributions of Indians who have studied in the UK.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

A review of the calibration of the scheme is a way to “avoid political traps now” and give parties maximum room for manoeuvre after the election, noted David Willetts, who was minister for universities and science from 2010 until 2014. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Will college pay off for you, the student/consumer/worker? In 2017, we co-authored a video called the College Meltdown. A February 2024 report by the Burning Glass Institute and the Strada Institute for the Future of Work found that 52% of recent four-year college graduates are underemployed within a year of graduating.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Have you updated the recruitment pitch your college is making to prospective students as other options beckon and enrollment continues to slip? ” Bachelor’s degrees still top students’ wishlists but a substantial number of high school graduates say they don’t feel prepared to start college.

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That requires great creative work that really stands out from all the other marketing messages that students see—and it’s what the RNL creative team does with each campaign they undertake for colleges and universities. We would like to spotlight these five campaigns and share the strategy behind these award-winning efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences. Getting into college is harder and harder,” said Dirks. Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.”

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The first day of the semester at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York on Tuesday came with a surprise for seniors that will make them the envy of college students everywhere. A class of college seniors learns tuition will be free appeared first on University Business. The post Surprise!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. These values run contrary to systemic oppression. In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. Critical self-reflection is a radical form of resistance.”

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