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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

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Meanwhile, the humanities and social sciences are taking a back seat. Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education.

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Why Non-Traditional Learners Need the Liberal Arts—and Vice Versa

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Special Education Professor Taps into Technology, Grant Funding to Engage Students

Insight Into Diversity

She received GMU’s Teaching Excellence Award for Technology-Enhanced Teaching in 2016, the inaugural GMU Online Teaching Excellence Award in 2018, and the John Toups Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Teaching in 2023. Shown: A student uses a technology-based graphic organizer.

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A generational mission: Benjamin Riley on the founding of Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact

In an education industry often defined by promises of quick fixes to thorny problems, Benjamin consistently focused attention on enduring truths: that teaching is a human craft of both art and science; that learning is a social activity; and that the deeply complex work of teaching and learning is worthy, then, of great reverence and inquiry.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material.

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Nonprofit Group Offers to Renovate and Build Charter Schools in Philly

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jason Corosanite STS Co-founder Dr. Jason Corosanite recently made the announcement at a mayoral forum on education, innovation, and technology, saying that he was committed to the dollar amount. "We So you can come and study anything from instrumental music to vocal music to fine arts or digital arts to robotics.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The individuals and organizations chosen are those whose contributions to higher education are consistent with the highest standards of excellence. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts.