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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Quantitative data are also essential, especially for documenting patterns of inequity and raising questions about how bias and other forces lead to observed differences. At the foundation of any effort to improve faculty diversity must be data that document the social identities and background characteristics of faculty.

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

Awarded a small amount of funding to collect information about the depth of digital knowledge in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, the Director of the Institute, Professor Jennifer Richards, turned to recent graduates for help, making use of the University’s internship scheme.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

a curriculum that intentionally seeks to cultivate graduates with the knowledge and skills in quantitative analysis, social science thinking, the scientific method and fluency in the arts, literature, history and philosophy and in the humanities’ interpretive techniques. coherent, integrated curricular pathways.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

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. At the same time, it’s worth acknowledging that the document contains some tensions and elisions that are typical of such endeavors.

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Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

Inside Higher Ed

That’s a big question about the purpose of writing—not one we can delegate to computer science. Mina Lee, doctoral student in computer science, Stanford University. There’s a well-documented tendency to project onto AI; we need to work against that by helping students practice recognizing its failings.

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Well-paying jobs increasingly require applicants to document skills and experience that many haven’t acquired. Campus pre-professional centers in such areas as the arts, business, computer science, health care, information technology, public policy, and science should make a point of helping students form a professional identity.