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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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Oil money undermines academic autonomy (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

billion gift to fund the Doerr School of Sustainability, its first new school in 70 years. That same month, Columbia University celebrated its Climate School’s first-ever graduating class. That is to say, the industry has mastered the art of exploiting universities’ credibility to serve its own interests.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Will Anti-DEI Legislation Cause a Research Funding Drought in Higher Ed?

Insight Into Diversity

The impact of that is around whether you have excellent science and excellent research,” she says. Scientific studies in health care are also at risk, Malcom says, because medical schools or health sciences schools need to populate clinical trials in a diverse way or they’re not accurate.

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Houston is the future; higher ed is stuck in past (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. It’s the one to two weeks each year the weather’s perfect. Not so scorching hot and humid it feels like swimming in soup. Not while the city’s encased in winter fog. And hurricane season is a definite no-go.