Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image: Newly available data from the National Science Foundation suggest that the first full year of the pandemic had a major, negative impact on graduate students’ ability to finish their Ph.D.s. Degrees awarded in the life sciences fell 6 percent between 2020 and 2021, and by about 8 percent in the physical and earth sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. “Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 31, 2023

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, in Massachusetts, has been appointed provost at Brown University, in Rhode Island. Claudine Gay , Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, in Massachusetts, has been chosen as president there.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The authors warn that limited access to active learning spaces may create a marginalizing force that pushes women, in particular, out of the sciences. Physics and engineering have long experimented with studio and collaborative design space concepts that have much in common with general purpose active learning classrooms. The solution?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. “Yay, that’s progress!”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. Called Women in Math, Science and Engineering (WIMSE) and housed at Cawthon Hall, the LLC promotes women’s success in STEM. University of Minnesota at St.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. “My mom became a registered nurse and my dad a civil engineer. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year. She earned her Ph.D. She earned her Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Our professional backgrounds are distinct; we represent faculty and senior administrators trained in medicine, science and engineering, the arts, social sciences, humanities, and education. As we have become more diverse and reflective of our state, we have also become better as an institution.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The main way that we can help prepare athletes for college is to [make them] really good gymnasts, which means they are focused, and they understand hard work — all of the things that help them become good students,” says former rhythmic gymnast Wendy Hilliard, who established the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation (WHGF) in 1996.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Every time I taught it, it kind of doubled,” said Duma, professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science. Image: The first time Stefan Duma offered his in-person Concussion Perspectives course at Virginia Tech, 50 students enrolled. “Absolutely not.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Just under half see research labs as excellent, while only one-third view arts and performing spaces as excellent. His advice: “You’ve demonstrated you can be viable contributors to the life of the institution. Don’t give up that seat.” Place can be a recruitment tool, or it can be the thing that turns people off.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

What it includes: The Family Study Room, located in the college’s library, has computers, whiteboards, comfy seats, a TV, a DVD player, an interactive touch-screen table, age-appropriate books, games, magazines and more. Willis says there’s “still a stigma around pregnant and parenting students in higher education today.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Department of Education that allows us to look at, if you study engineering or social work or psychology at a specific institution, what’s the ROI you’re getting, looking at your cost relative to the earnings boost you’re obtaining? An edited transcript of the discussions follows. We have data from the U.S.

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Helix Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Normally, giving messaging is limited to our solicitations, a few donor stories in alumni magazines, and our giving sites. Fundraiser hears the words: “ Donor acquisition:” cue dramatic music and sense of impending dread. Or at least that’s how I feel this topic is viewed by many fundraisers.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 7, 2025

UM-Dearborns Evidence-Based Approaches to Inclusive Excellence By Misty Evans Waung, PhD, associate dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, OHE programs encompass a broad spectrum of personal experiences, integrating empathy, belonging, and understanding into the very fabric of the universitys community and culture.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Studies indicate that a majority of U.S. workers value diversity in the workplace and want their companies to implement inclusive policies. For example, Kaiser Permanente is a key partner in the weekly training series and is becoming a worksite for students interested in pursuing a career in the health industry.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rather than a dappled olive grove, autumn sunlight falls on the philosopher of science through barred windows, set high into walls daubed with Communist and antifascist slogans. Image: Greece is the ancient birthplace of the academy, but it is a turbulent 20th century that explains the contemporary street battles over campus policing.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons. Disrupted supply chains frequently left dining programs in a pickle.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The present is not good … Politically it’s horrible … All the hawks are screaming … —Toni Morrison, from a 2015 interview. As suggested in my last op-ed and implied in the epigraph for this one, it is, now, a time for urgency. While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Shelton spoke with Inside Higher Ed via Zoom. Excerpts of the conversation follow, edited for length and clarity. Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea. Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. Affirmative action struck down The U.S. The high court voted 6-3 against UNC and 6-2 against Harvard.

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