This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. based tenure-track faculty members across eight disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities. Morgan, a recent computerscience Ph.D.
Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. For one of his classes, he teamed up with liberal arts postdoc Franziska Tsufim, whose scholarship and teaching practice include multimodal rhetoric and “sense-making” among students. My experience is different.
Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computerscience, 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.
Women in Engineering and ComputerScience Program (WIECS) Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering and ComputerScience WIECS fosters a supportive learning environment that encourages women students to earn degrees and ultimately pursue careers in engineering and computerscience. Chicago, Ill.;
Over the past 21 years, the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship has supported hundreds of transfer students as they have thrived at these institutions—and we have supported thousands more through Community College Transfer Initiative grants to selective schools. This holds true for selective institutions.
We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies within UCLA’s Urban Schooling program.
This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computerscience department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. Beyond that, two things stuck with me about S.
We have something called the Arizona Teachers Academy, which will provide students a tuition-free teacher-prep degree, provided they commit to staying in the state and teaching in a school in the state for the same number of years that they get this scholarship. That gave us a different way to think about it.
Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly reinterpreting fragile and easily forgotten knowledge. Examples of ICTs, “big data” and other emerging technologies leading to research breakthroughs in the natural and health sciences are well known.
As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computerscience major. Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S.
Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. I’m of the view that we as a society need many more “middlebrow” works, like McWhorter’s, that make sophisticated scholarship accessible to a broader audience in an entertaining yet thoughtful way.
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?
The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?
BlackPlayBook performs within a womanist/Black feminist tradition on a “play-ground” of Black performance, scholarship and activism, which she shares with her drama students. “We We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said. Akbar said her courses get students from various majors at Fort Valley.
They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Drumm McNaughton I would agree.
This includes the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which supports recruiting, preparing, and developing effective, diverse, and capable STEM teachers who can teach in high-need school districts and serve a diverse student population. Education features interventions that enhance educational opportunities.
The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10.
He is the recipient of the WCET Richard Jonsen Award, CAEL’s Morris Keeton Ward, the President’s Medal from Excelsior College, and USDLA’s Distance Learning Hall of Fame Award, as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Fielding Graduate University for his contributions to the field of adult learning.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 29,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content