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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education. Missing Seats at Important Tables.

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KAVITA BALA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kavita Bala Kavita Bala, currently the dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University has been named the university’s 17th provost. She arrived at Cornell in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher and became an assistant professor of computer science in 2002.

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Here are 4 ways curriculum must evolve for a 21st-century breakthrough

University Business

Ozlem Kilic is the founding dean of UT Knoxville’s College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies, which aims to align industry input with interdisciplinary research to provide students cutting-edge curriculum. Its degree in computer science has graduated over 12,000 students in the past decade.

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Students’ top 10 most-regretted majors have everything to do with one issue

University Business

The happiest respondents earned their degrees in computer and information sciences, and criminology. Other highly satisfied graduates got their degrees in engineering, healthcare, business, and finance. More from UB : How this interim dean is reigniting his college’s community. Biology: 52%.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

So the institution’s disclosure that it briefed the Board of Visitors on not just a department but a possible division-level unit of computational and data science stunned many on campus. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Wentworth Institute of Technology to Drop Pre-Calculus Admissions Requirement for STEM Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Wentworth Institute of Technology is dropping its pre-Calculus admissions requirement, opening its doors to a wider range of students looking to pursue STEM degrees there. Research has shown that students pursuing degrees in STEM often bottleneck and struggle during their journey at Calculus and Physics, she said.

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President moves: This Florida university has finally selected its next leader

University Business

More from UB: Computer science degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Adam Hasner, Florida Atlantic University Adam Hasner – Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University has finally found its next president in Adam Hasner following a lengthy search that began in January 2023.