Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. was risky; there were few positions when I took my degree in 1975. I recall clearly that we undergraduates in the late 1960s were under pressure to major in engineering, business, pre-med, or pre-law.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Course requirements are wide-ranging, balancing STEM courses with courses on AI and Ethics and Policy, Machine Learning for Economics, Philosophical Issues in Computation, Language and Computers, Science, Technology, and International Affairs, and Race, Gender, and Digital Media.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

To help learners adapt to this new future, Coursera is announcing new degrees, Professional Certificates, and other content offerings from leading universities and industry educators. With pricing under $20,000, all new degrees offer exceptional affordability and accessibility, especially well-suited for working adults.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ortega, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, which tracks graduate enrollment and degrees in its own annual survey, said Wednesday, “Not being able to conduct research in person due to COVID-19 could delay a doctoral student’s ability to complete their research and graduate. Humanities and arts degrees fell 16 percent.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

STEM ALL IN Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences (CECAS) STEM ALL IN empowers participants to pursue STEM graduate degrees through on-campus experiences, educational sessions, and network building. Chicago, Ill.; and Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

In fall 2020, women represented 58 percent of undergraduates at degree-granting institutions nationwide, but 53 percent of assistant professors , 47 percent of associate professors and 35 percent of full professors. institutions received those degrees from only 20 percent of U.S. Yet, at most U.S. universities.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 24, 2023

Supporters of the bill state that it will ensure students have low-cost pathways to a four-year degree and that it will help address critical workforce shortages, especially in education fields. The legislation will ensure that course credits across 18 majors will directly transfer from community colleges to four-year public institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

To be sure, some states and corporations eliminated degree requirements for some jobs, but the impact remains uncertain and likely quite limited. How about industry credentials: Are these replacing traditional degrees? Barriers to entry into the sciences abound, while striking racial and gender disparities persist.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

That high-performing Black and Hispanic students are far less likely to earn a college degree than comparable white or Asian American students. That inequities pervade American higher education, including gates that restrict entry into high-demand, high-salary majors in computer science, economics, finance, engineering and nursing.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At 1,057,188 international students in the 2022-23 academic year, the 12% year-over-year growth is the largest in more than 40 years and the largest in Open Doors’ data collection history, said Mirka Martel, Head of Research, Evaluation and Learning at International Education Exchange, during the online release announcement.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The initial concept of a new entity or school came to the administration organically, from faculty in computer science (the data science program is part of CS) and applied science who are managing the surge in enrollment. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. An esports program was something he immediately wanted to embark on since taking a role in the school of visual media arts, alongside s tarting a degree program in game design and interactive media at UM.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This discipline- and faculty-centric approach discourages the kind of collaboration across departmental lines that is needed to create more synergistic, coherent or integrated degree pathways. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Eliminating opportunities for especially talented students to pursue advanced mathematics runs the risk of reducing the number well-prepared for success in computer science, data analytics, statistics, and many areas of the natural and social sciences. Expand pre-college summer programs, especially in math and science.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. They must be the point of the undergraduate degree.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. They must be the point of the undergraduate degree.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We start with our children, explaining that there are clusters of ideas called history, science, literature, religion, and so on, and those ideas explore different questions about the world. A very creative school might also find a way to weave science into this strategy, but mostly, we separate science from this kind of thinking.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When I was there, I started there when the campus was an upper division-only institution and became a comprehensive master’s degree-serving institution. Our computer science program, very similar, over a 4. Tell us a little bit about who you are and what you have going on. [00:32:39] So they all go to work.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

” Recent IPEDS data shows that English, history, religion, and languages are all down at least 40% in terms of the number of majors since they peaked in the 2000s. Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities. How do we determine the degree return on investment?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In My class dealing with history, it’s much more real,” she continued. As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. in theater history from The Ohio State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition to the standard measures of quality—for example, the share of faculty with a terminal degree or library resources—how about the proportion of students who take part in a high-impact practices, the share of faculty who are undergoing professional development in teaching and postgraduation employment and earnings outcomes?

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As history has shown us, international educational exchange bounces back. It’s also important to note that we see students recognising that there’s opportunities at all levels of education for them in the US, including the hands-on opportunities to do a graduate degree here,” said Rosenzweig. “We’re What’s next?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

No one could credibly claim that a bachelor’s degree signifies that a college goer can write or speak clearly and persuasively, is conversant with the arts, the humanities, and the sciences, or is knowledgeable about the use statistics and quantitative methods. Provide more experiential learning opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Only about 60 percent of undergraduates at four-year institutions earn a bachelor’s degree, while fewer than 40 percent of community college students ever get a degree or certificate. There’s a widespread perception that too many degree holders lack the skills and knowledge expected of a college graduate.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In addition to traditional discipline-based lecture and discussion courses, many of today’s students would benefit from other kinds of learning experiences, which must count for credit and towards a degree if they are to attract enrollment. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. Brooklyn College offers a bachelor’s degree in theater as well as bachelor’s and master of fine arts (MFA) degrees in acting and technical production and MFAs in directing and performing arts management.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science. There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences. But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberal arts education. I was a physics major.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Today, more international students are studying at US colleges and universities than ever in history. That’s the largest enrollment number in history. The three most popular fields of study are maths, computer science, engineering, and business and management. million to more than 10 million by the end of this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to extend their stays in the United States. Others, such as human-centered technology design and data visualization, live in the intersection of science and the arts. Image: Earlier this year, the U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

Computer science degrees are still red hot. These colleges boast the best offerings Enrollment in computer science continues to surge. Bureau of Labor Statistics projected a 21% growth in demand for computer scientists by 2031. Notably, seven conservative institutions are in predominantly liberal states.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. Michigan State University, for one, has a long history of partnerships and investments in African higher education, often in conjunction with U.S. While CMU’s is the only U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Fall 2022 declines were seen in associate, bachelor’s, and, for the first time in two years, graduate degree programs. They tend to be more affordable and have academic programs that are more reputable, that don’t have a history of taking advantage of students.” That brings the total enrollment decline since fall 2019 to 1.2

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

Is a University a University without the Liberal Arts” asks Devereaux, referring to a recent shuttering of nine programs in mathematics, history, art, English and philosophy at Marymount University in Virginia. Let’s ignore the headline, which the author doesn’t necessarily choose, and get to the crux of the argument. “Is

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