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The 15 best colleges for computer science degree seekers

University Business

As a growing number of undergraduate students each year opt to enroll in computer science, it’s important to know which schools offer the best degrees in the field. Not only did computer science survive the pandemic—it thrived. Undergraduate enrollment increased by 6.2% on average with an eyebrow-raising 10.4%

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President’s corner: How a genuine student-first mentality propels Linda Livingstone

University Business

Last fall, Baylor reached its strongest first-year student retention rate90.9% “It takes a portfolio of efforts to make a big dent in retention and graduation rates,” Livingstone says. “It takes a portfolio of efforts to make a big dent in retention and graduation rates,” Livingstone says.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM gathers and analyzes disaggregated data pertaining to retention, unit completion and graduation.

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IU Bloomington provost goes beyond retention for success

Inside Higher Ed

IU is one of those institutions where [retention and persistence] numbers are pretty good. My [first- to second-year] retention number is 90 percent, so I don’t spend my day every day thinking, “How do I fix it?” And retention, graduate rates, DFW rates are not that. Those are measures of failure. to 10 p.m.

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While women have achieved parity in some STEM fields, such as biological sciences, they remain underrepresented in high-paying and high-demand areas like engineering and computer science. Requiring tutor hours where appropriate fosters consistent engagement with support systems, improving retention and academic performance.

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M-U Professor Responds to Claims Made By NYT

Insight Into Diversity

One example she gave is the untrue assertion that computer science students must take “microaggressions quizzes,” a claim Chavous stated was factually untrue. She described how the journalist disregarded U-M’s detailed fact-checking of over 130 points, instead choosing to highlight erroneous claims.

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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). I track them in retention.