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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. We have the human capital to prepare students [for] these roles.” But California State University, Fullerton’s efforts to tackle this issue got a major boost recently with the announcement of $1.4

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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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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Can financially-challenged institutions sustain the range of majors and faculty size, especially in the humanities, while adding new career-aligned fields?

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence in the world of higher education has continued with the report that Harvard University has plans to use an AI chatbot as part of its introductory computer science course. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors.

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Challenge Labs – a new way of doing research and teaching

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. But how do we make this happen in local as well as more structural ways?

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What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” Educators must consider ethics, cheating, and equity, just as they would when integrating other technologies into their courses.

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