Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

"Caleb Wilson died as the direct result of a hazing incident where he was punched in the chest multiple times while pledging to Omega Psi Phi fraternity," Baton Rouge Police Department Chief Thomas Morse Jr. said during a March 7 news conference. He indicated that students found to be involved in Wilson's death could face expulsion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Department of Energy and the State of Michigan have announced a collective award of cash incentives and grants totaling $75 million to build workforce development for Nel Hydrogen’s new factory to be built in Plymouth, Michigan.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 17, 2024

‘ Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) direction to Jisc’s funding body 2024 We are focusing on research security as a strategic imperative for the DRI. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To support its AI Plus initiative, UAlbany embarked on its largest faculty cluster hire, bringing in 27 specialists across various departments, including political science, philosophy, and public health. In addition to advancements, UAlbany’s AI Plus Institute is also addressing the ethical implications of the technology.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 30, 2025

The move comes ahead of a significant package of higher education reforms due to be announced this summer, which the government said “will put students first and cement universities status as engines of growth in their communities”, as it focuses on its Plan for Change to drive economic growth and raise living standards.

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HEPI

MARCH 16, 2025

Because the steady decline of German learners in the UK, of students pursuing German at the university level, the closure of language departments and the ongoing threat of further closures is a cause for concern. Why are we shouting out for German?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Dr. Vernon Dunn, director of The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering at the National Academy of Engineers, first met Williams at one of the summer programs Williams ran at Xavier. Dunn says he speaks with Williams daily, seeking advice on managing people, navigating spaces, and how to best lead his program of young engineers.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Speaking to The PIE News , a UK Home Office spokesperson highlighted the departments measures to prevent such fraud in its own processes, and the penalties for those who are caught. We have stringent systems in place to identify and prevent fraudulent student visa application,” the spokesperson said.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The calls for more allocation has now led to Indias finance ministry allocating INR 20,000 crore (1.8bn) to the Department of Science and Technology to initiate a private sector-driven R&D development fund. A coalition between engineering and medical schools is now underway to drive innovation in medtech, stated Agarwal.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 25, 2023

But this one suggests that gender imbalances in departments exacerbate the issue. Studies have found gender bias before , but the new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a threat to both male and female faculty members’ futures in departments with lopsided numbers of men and women.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 14, 2022

So if you type "Eng" you'll get Engineering as well as English At top right, you can help students find degree-earners who are like them, by filtering on gender or ethnicity Right below that, you can filter the colleges: What type, where they're located, and whether they have a religious affiliation or not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Department of Energy’s ( DOE ) Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory are partnering with University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras ( UPRRP ) to expand UPRRP’s environmental sciences program and attract minority students underrepresented into the atmospheric and Earth system sciences and new energy workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The funding of two projects – one addressing postdoctoral researchers preparing for engineering/STEM education careers and one supporting youngsters - will build upon the community partnership between UH and Houston’s Third Ward neighborhood, says university officials. Henderson, an assistant professor in the William A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

Pradeep Sharma Pradeep Sharma has been named dean of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston. He served as the college’s interim dean and previously as chair of the college’s mechanical engineering department. in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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The PIE News

MARCH 14, 2025

The Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, stands out as Indias top performer in the QS subject rankings, securing the 20th position globally in engineering mineral and mining.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology. knowledge and practice in AI uses in specific contexts Together, with our students, we can turn to many free online options. California students to learn about AI and media literacy soon. link] Miao,F. & & Cukurova, M. AI competency framework for teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

These investments include: $188 million in competitive grants to HBCUs through the Department of Education, including grants that will support R&D capacity building. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program (Hawkins) and the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Data informs decisions across key areas and workforce preparation for high-demand, high wage fields like IT, nursing and engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But she also held a fascination with math, specifically with how math can be used to create tools and engineer solutions to problems. She’s found a way to pursue both, having earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and now working toward a Ph.D. Maisel calls the fifth year Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Carver Professor of Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. She was invited by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as a member of their joint roundtable on advancing change in undergraduate STEM education. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan; a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

in Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; PhD. University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

In the field of engineering, which is my academic background, traditional methods such as lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions are the dominant content delivery vehicles. Khameel Mustapha holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2024

million gift upon Howard Community College in support of programming and scholarships in its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) division. million gift upon Howard Community College to help support it science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

She previously served as assistant vice provost at North Carolina State University, as a program assessment consultant in the university’s Department of Chemical Engineering, and as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State. Akinleye, who retires June 30.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate; U.S Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture; National Institute of Standards and Technology and U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. “In

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2024

This research stems from the third phase of the ASPIRES project , based at UCL, which has tracked the career aspirations and plans of a cohort of young people in England from age 10/11 to age 21/22; with a focus on what shapes young people’s trajectories into, through and out of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We have all seen the media coverage with packed A&E departments, patients waiting for hours and being treated in corridors. By Darryll Bravenboer, Director of Apprenticeships and Professor of Higher Education and Skills, Middlesex University.

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University Business

DECEMBER 31, 2024

If we make these changes, this could be a profitable business and an important cog in the universitys economic engine. Department of Defense through Tampa-based U.S. I think this is the future of higher ed expanding into non-credit programming, he told his bosses. The gamble paid off. Special Operations Command.

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University Business

MARCH 27, 2025

While Yale and other research universities are offering technical support, they will also gain insight from the consortium’s community colleges that are tapped into the state’s workforce needs, says Ron Harichandran, CAIA co-founder and dean of New Haven’s engineering department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

We graduate the very highest number of Black engineers, Black women engineers, Black agriculturists,” says Smith-Jackson. In our department we have an undergraduate research program that allows undergraduate students to work side by side with researchers in the College of Agriculture,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

.; and assistant professor in the physics and nuclear engineering department at the U.S. Shannon holds a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering and a masters in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a master’s in health physics and a Ph.D. in nuclear and radiological engineering from Georgia Tech.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have made cuts to humanities departments, and the financial exigencies of the pandemic have only made the situation worse. Yet the humanities are crucial , even—or especially— in a world that prioritizes science, technology, engineering and math disciplines.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 Applications for funding were assessed for the quality of planned activities, the breadth of participating departments on campus, and the depth of institutional commitment to identifying and addressing systemic barriers to success in graduate education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University. . in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University. . Wang is a materials scientist – she holds seven U.S. patents – with experience as a leader in multiple fields. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Milke, professor and chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, is co-principal investigator. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. James A.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

GuildHE has scrutinised these areas and suggested to the Department for Education (DfE) ways to use the strengths of our sector to meet these challenges. ’ In November, the Secretary of State wrote to the higher education sector outlining five areas for reform.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

However, Kaplan Pathways’ latest partner, The Engineering & Design Institute London takes this concept a step further, offering just one subject — Global Design Engineering. From art colleges to medical schools, specialised higher education institutions are nothing new. But what benefit does this laser focus offer to students?

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