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Colleges award tenure

Inside Higher Ed

Austin Porter, art history and American studies. Guy Bresler, electrical engineering and computer science. Michael Carbin, electrical engineering and computer science. Stefanie Jegelka, electrical engineering and computer science. Tim Kraska, electrical engineering and computer science.

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Colleges award tenure

Inside Higher Ed

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CUNY to Receive $75 Million Donation to Boost Tech Programs

Inside Higher Ed

The City University of New York system is receiving the largest donation in its history, intended to help the urban university boost its technology and artificial intelligence programs. CUNY plans to announce today that it will receive $75 million from the Simons Foundation, a philanthropy focused on furthering research in math and sciences.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” It goes on, “Even a few decades ago, no one could have fully anticipated future investments in computer science, quantum computing, or climate science—fields where Princeton is now a leader.” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

I write as a professor emeritus of English and history, who was trained in the humanities and the social sciences in the 1970s. First, pressures on young people from middle school forward to concentrate in engineering, computer science, or business for job security only increased. My pursuing the Ph.D.