Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 23, 2023

String Theory Schools (STS), an education management nonprofit group, is looking to help Philadelphia’s educational system through a $1 billion offer to fix up the city’s schools and build new ones. It's really about the communities that want to build schools." Edmunds (K-8). identified as Black or African American, 32.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 23, 2023

String Theory Schools (STS), an education management non-profit, is looking to help Philadelphia’s educational system through a $1 billion offer to fix up the city’s schools and build new ones. It's really about the communities that want to build schools." Edmunds (K-8). And we've seen successful results because of this model.

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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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Owing to the growing Indian market, over 30 boarding schools from 11 countries met with parents and prospective students at The Red Pen’s World Boarding School Fair 2024 in Mumbai and Delhi last month. We have a strong focus on technology and are one of the few IB schools which offers computer science as a part of its curriculum.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

She decided to visit a nearby elementary school, and in one of the classrooms a student with multiple disabilities was given a communication device. She encourages her George Mason University students to explore assistive technology and choose a learning format that best meets their needs.

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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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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This week, the British Council Scotland and Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities awarded 13 international EARTH scholarships to early-career researchers. One EARTH scholarship recipient is Camellia Biswas, who is a doctoral researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indiana Institute of Technology.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This piece considers how the school curriculum can be adapted to develop creativity, practical skills, and inclusive, real-world learning. It might be reasonable then to suppose that the school curriculum would be designed to prepare pupils for a sector that accounts for a fifth of UK jobs and a quarter of vacancies. [i]

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

College and Underemployment A study from Georgetown University found that nearly a third of colleges and universities leave students worse off financially 10 years after graduation compared to those with just a high school diploma (source). And it depends on what you consider success.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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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The Guardian - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It wasn’t their parents’ fault: children were happier with their families, but their distress coincided with a school life relentlessly concentrated on exams. As 40% fewer took arts subjects , PE hours were also cut, while 215 school playing fields were sold off and fun was squeezed out of the curriculum. Nothing else.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

She will be the first woman to lead the school. In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee. “In

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University Business

JUNE 24, 2024

For its 2024 Best Value College rankings , the company also surveyed students and alumni of the 209 schools on the list about starting and mid-career salaries and job satisfaction. Among the top 50 public schools, the average grant to students with need is $14,794 and the median starting salary of graduates is $72,247.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

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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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

APRIL 24, 2024

Aherial Polite Aherial Polite has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Augusta, Georgia. She served as served as the department chair of chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology at Aiken Technical College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We higher ed institution.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Beginnings: Cybernetics and Art in the UK In the late 1960s, a groundbreaking shift occurred in the UK’s art scene as artists began to integrate computers and artificial intelligence into their creative processes. Cybernetics, a science concerned with communication and control theory, played a crucial role.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This method leverages online education technologies that have become more familiar and advanced during the COVID-19 pandemic. By partnering with other institutions, colleges can quickly introduce new programs in high-demand fields, attracting students who might otherwise have overlooked small liberal arts schools.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. Dr. Paul Sniegowski, a biologist and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has served as President since August 2024. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.

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Deans for Impact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Shirley Ann Jackson Although not a high school graduate, he was mechanically inclined and ultimately achieved a position in charge of the vehicle operations for the U.S. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Early inspiration Her father was an inspiration.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 31, 2025

Building on this momentum, nine new universities joined Coursera in 2024, including Clemson University, IMD Business School, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, and Sad Business School – University of Oxford. To meet rising workforce needs, universities responded with new courses.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are a few of the innovative designs developed by researchers for people with disabilities at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The researchers developed PURE over the last five years with grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

NSSE is part of the IU School of Education’s Center for Postsecondary Research. Dr. Leonard Taylor Taylor, currently an associate professor and program coordinator in Auburn University’s College of Education, will also become an associate professor in the school’s Higher Education and Student Affairs program. Taylor holds a Ph.D.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

“As we’re becoming concerned with our systemics structure, funding structures, and who we are and what we’re going to be, the train has already left the station on how people learn,” said Art Recesso, co-founder of the Skill Bridge Foundation,an open-source talent development system.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The work that we do… helps folks to come to research topics of common interest from science, and social sciences to medicine and history,” said Garcetti. “I India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology. When I read many great religious, philosophical, historical texts of India it changed my life and perspective.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. She says the things that resonated with her in graduate school were theoretically sophisticated and mattered to people.

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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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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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Coursera blog

MARCH 6, 2023

These latest courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees cover everything from accounting and IT to data science and software engineering. Computer science programmes from BITS Pilani are highly regarded across the industry. Computer science programmes from BITS Pilani are highly regarded across the industry.

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Coursera blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Hear why they chose to enroll in the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences program at UNT, what aspects of the program they found most valuable, and their advice for anyone who wants to finish their college degree online. UNT’s Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (B.A.A.S.) Then the pandemic struck. You deserve it.”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University; Futurist, Latinx Pacific Archive; Co-Director, Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM). As the technological world continues to rapidly change and progress, it can leave users in underrepresented communities behind. Guevarra, Jr.,

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2025

We tested this theory by working with a client, Artists Alliance Incorporated, a non-profit arts organization in New York City, who needed to rebuild its web presence. In that article, we made a case for enabling real-world clients as partner educators. Both are time-intensive, yet essential, components for implementing a real-world project.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

In fact, instructors must move beyond traditional teaching methods and implement innovative instructional practices to elevate the skills of all students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) (Eltanahy, 2023; Khana et al., As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students.

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