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Inspiring Tech Context

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Marcus Bright The meaning that context provides can make a critical difference in tech educational curriculum like computer science. I believe that there is a need to intentionally build context around computer science education specifically. Context addresses the important “for what” question.

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'Low-effort' interventions can combat student cheating

Inside Higher Ed

The study looked at six “low-effort” interventions—each of which took less than an hour for the professor to prepare and could be easily adapted for other courses—aimed at reducing cheating in an online section of an introductory computer science course in which about 100 students were enrolled.

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Study: Undergraduate Women Majoring in STEM More Frequently Face Sexual Assault Than Those Outside of STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the study, women in gender-balanced STEM fields (chemistry, math and biology) reported the most sexual violence, nearly three times more rapes than in non-gender-balanced STEM fields and more than in predominantly male STEM disciplines (engineering, physics and computer science). attempted rapes, the study found.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

” Brian Whitson, college spokesperson, told Inside Higher Ed this week that “we are in the very early stages of developing a plan and we do not have a definite timeline to submit a proposal to [the state council] or our board. ” Beyond Data Science.

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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Inside Higher Ed

“If I’m a very intelligent AI and I want to bypass your detection, I could insert typos into my writing on purpose,” said Diyi Yang, assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. Bengio is a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal.

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Helping Our Students Understand and Fight Imposter Syndrome

Faculty Focus

Researchers have been working on a definition of imposter syndrome for over 40 years. One student relayed her experience as follows: “Coming into the STEM field and majoring in computer science, you always hear about how male dominated it is. Dulce Orozco is a therapist and community leader based in Southeast Massachusetts.

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Mind the policy gaps: regulating quality and ethics in digitalised and privatised crossborder education

SRHE

Wilkins and Huisman (2025) identify eleven types of TNE providers and propose the following definition to help handle this diversity: Transnational education is a form of education that borrows or transfers elements of one countrys higher education, as well as that countrys culture and values, to another country.

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