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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. but only 34% of the STEM workforce; they also earn only 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering, 24% in physics, and 21% in computer science.

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AAMU’s STEM boon carves career paths for HBCU students

University Business

Jobs for the Future , a nonprofit focused on the American workforce and education systems, recently identified a skill and career gap among Black learners and job seekers. “Black Americans continue to have less systemic access to build and maintain professional social capital.” .

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

University Business

President moves: This Florida university has finally selected its next leader What’s being taught: The advent of AI compels the K12 and higher education system to rethink what they’re teaching students, Recesso said. Its degree in computer science has graduated over 12,000 students in the past decade.

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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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US hosted over one million international students last year as pandemic recovery continues

The PIE News

Approximately 20% (240,230) studied maths or computer science, followed by 19% (202,801) who studied engineering. In total, international students made up 6% of all students in the US higher education system and, according to analysis by NAFSA, contributed over $40 billion to the US economy.

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Why AI is about to become an integral part of higher education

University Business

In July 2022, more than 500 tech and education leaders issued a call to action advocating for the expansion of computer science education opportunities for students. Less than a year later, education technology has come much further than we anticipated.

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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. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. But strikes me as coherent.