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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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University of San Diego Recruiting Students for Restorative Justice Master's Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Master of Arts in Restorative Justice Facilitation and Leadership – from USD's School of Leadership and Education Science – seeks to teach students how to guide restorative justice processes and foster healing in response to incidents of harm. The first cohort will start next fall.

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In the search for jobs, should disadvantaged students behave more like middle-class students … or should the labour market change?

HEPI

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. Upskilling and reskilling.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

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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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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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars. Nevertheless, I must confess to mixed feelings about these units.

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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”