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Honoring Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage — past, present and future

UW Presidential Blog

We honor innovators like Yejin Choi , UW professor of computer science, who was awarded the 2022 MacArthur Genius Grant and named one of Time’s 2023 “ 100 Most Influential People in AI,” for her groundbreaking research and discoveries in artificial intelligence.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. We can also identify patterns and trends that might otherwise go unseen. Priorities conflict.

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

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Report: International graduate student enrollment booms by 100% since the pandemic

University Business

More from UB: How 2 college equity leaders advise navigating a changing climate amid backlash International applications and enrollment China and India remain as the two most significant countries whose students are applying for U.S. education are contributing to the trend, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

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CSUN Receives Grant to Boost STEM, Arts Diversity at LA Colleges

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. Led by S.K.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.