WCET Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2025

I wanted to take a moment to look back at the history of the projects. A Brief History of the WOW Awards In 2004, our then-Executive Director, Sally Johnstone, introduced the first annual WOW Awards: We started this new award to recognize outstanding efforts in implementing technology in higher education.

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Technology Community College History Engineering 52

University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite questions around the value of an English degree, graduates who earned one were found to possess similar rates of life satisfaction, peak salary earnings and unemployment rates to non-English degree graduates, according to a recent report by the Association of Departments of English (ADE), a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.

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Degree Arts And Sciences Humanities Academia 138

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the editor: I am surprised to see Andrew Newman, chair of the English department at the University at Stony Brook, in his March 9 essay "The English Major, After the End, " repeating Nathan Heller’s unresearched and misrepresented “The End of the English Major,” The New Yorker (Mar.

Humanities 97

Humanities Arts And Sciences Computer Science Engineering 97

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy. Why do departments impose such restrictions? Capacity constraints are a factor, but so is a desire to raise a department’s rankings. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Equity Computer Science Disadvantaged Postsecondary Education 122

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Deans Provost Arts And Sciences Faculty 122

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

But PSU’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) cultural groups helped him become acquainted with research, and, in 2018, he received an internship with the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). It was very isolating, a culture shock for sure,” says Delgado.

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Retention Engineering Scholarship History 119

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

These are opportunities to celebrate the rich history, culture and the people from underrepresented communities.” Whether it’s engineering, computing, business management or architecture, there are ways in which to build a DEI agenda in each of those particular disciplines.” He also hosts an annual DEI forum.

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Achievement Inclusivity Advocate Engineering 108

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Medical School Arts And Sciences Engineering Computer Science 122

The PIE News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Although Phillipson has proclaimed that “international students are welcome in the UK” and expressed an intention to maintain the Graduate Route , lessons from recent history tell us that the fate of international students ultimately lies with the Home Secretary and Number 10, irrespective of the preferences of the Department for Education.

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Engineering Higher Education Guidance Advocate 115

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Throughout the program, students engage with faculty in STEM departments. Read about them here.

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Arts And Sciences Engineering Computer Science Professional Development 98

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 6, 2024

Over the past years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has emerged as a cornerstone in crafting this online identity, serving as the bridge that connects schools to prospective students, parents, and the broader academic community. When you ask a specific question in a search engine, like “What does XYZ College specialize in?”

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Engineering Schooling Organization Achievement 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

TCUs have a unique mission, Youngbull said, to not only provide relevant degree programs to their learners but to revitalize and sustain their tribal cultures, history, and languages in a way that permeates into the community. The mission of TCUs is not to replicate settler colonialism, but to reflect and sustain a unique tribal identity.

Humanities 144

Humanities Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences 144

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. It ensures enrollment in departments that might otherwise drastically shrink in size.

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Arts And Sciences College Computer Science Humanities 128

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year.

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History Arts And Sciences Deans Engineering 98

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered.

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Arts And Sciences History Department Humanities 81

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Music takes you out of your circumstances of life,” said Sean Slade, a music producer and associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music. Slade has produced albums with Radiohead, Hole, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Lou Reed, and other artists.

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Department Engineering History Humanities 111

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. White House Honoree, Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Higher Education Education Engineering Postsecondary Education 104

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

English departments find it harder and harder to justify professors with a specialty in Old English, Middle English, the Renaissance or even 18th- and 19th-century poetry and the novel. Nor was the impact of critical theory and cultural critique restricted to literature departments. The field is besieged.

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Humanities Arts And Sciences History Department 75

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Indeed, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the US News rankings were reverse engineered to ensure that the "right" schools appeared at the top. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. College ratings take various forms. Washington Monthly famously measures economic mobility.

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College Law School Engineering Faculty 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. I thought I could make more of a difference at MIT because of its unique role in science and engineering.”

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Arts And Sciences Technology Advise Faculty 131

The PIE News

MARCH 3, 2025

The US heavily relies on international talent in fields like medicine, technology, and engineering. If talented international students are forced to depart the United States due to visa limitations, the US loses valuable expertise. In spite of efforts to encourage more American students to pursue STEM degrees, not enough do.

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Degree Policy Disadvantaged Higher Education 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

TCUs are unique in that their founding principle is to serve indigenous people and their nations, connecting their history to their future, and empowering a new generation of learners with the skills to uplift their communities. The distinctive cultural focus of TCUs is now paired with the academic rigor of a Ph.D.,

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Empower Faculty History Leadership 124

HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

When you ask the Department for Business and Trade about exports, higher education is clearly one sector where the British offer has the attention of the world. The Prime Minister will personally Chair new ‘mission boards’ to aid cross-department collaboration. We make our own history but not in the times of our own choosing.

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Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences Policy 142

The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Humanities Computer Science 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I’ve taught two first year-experience courses as an assistant professor in the Academic Strategies Department. Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class.

Engineering 124

Engineering Model Dean Of Students Empower 124

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Departments could, of course, make teaching potential a bigger factor in hiring or take peer teaching evaluation more seriously. It might also be worthwhile for department chairs to launch conversations about how to improve rates of equity and student success, for example, by doing more to identify students at risk of failure.

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Learning Experience Faculty Professional Development Equity 111

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Go to most campuses and a conventional, unimaginative, standardized approach to education is the norm: A college education consists of 60 or 120 credit hours, a 15 week-long semester, distribution requirements, a department-based major, and 3 or 5 credit hour lecture, seminar, and laboratory courses. Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr.,

Liberal Arts 119

Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Community College Faculty 119

HEPI

APRIL 13, 2023

The university has long been a hub of academic excellence in space research, including, earth observation and geospatial analysis, physics and astronomy, instrumentation and space engineering. It has done so in a planned and joined up way with the City Inward Investment Team, the Department of International Trade and national networks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

At Lehman, we have the platform and the resources to partner with schools and communities in the Bronx to be a social and economic engine — that is what helps us become intentionally an HSI and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI),” says Delgado. “We We are around 83% students of color.

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Institution Advise Model Provost 128

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art. Akbar, who teaches in the department of arts and communication, sees it as a vital means of communicating. Akbar, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fort Valley State University, an HBCU institution in Georgia.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Computer Science Scholarship History 98

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

Arts And Sciences 105

Arts And Sciences Humanities Degree Engineering 105

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Next comes the argument that no one who was serious about developing faster, cheaper paths into “ high paying, in-demand jobs, like data and software engineering ,” would “ create [the] university as the way to get there.” ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Degree Engineering 81

University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At 1,057,188 international students in the 2022-23 academic year, the 12% year-over-year growth is the largest in more than 40 years and the largest in Open Doors’ data collection history, said Mirka Martel, Head of Research, Evaluation and Learning at International Education Exchange, during the online release announcement.

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Computer Science Students Engineering Department 64

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Chairs rate full professors, who may choose to be rated by their department colleagues, as well. Another controversial change involves requiring external reviews not only for tenure-track and tenured faculty promotions, but also for non-tenure-track professors.

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Faculty Provost Inclusivity Scholarship 137

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I’ve taught two first year-experience courses as an assistant professor in the Academic Strategies Department. Lesson #1: Thinking and learning In groups, have your students reflect upon their academic history and identify how they think and learn. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class.

Engineering 98

Engineering Model Dean Of Students Empower 98

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Others use it to mean anything not math-based, so history would be included, STEM would not and political science would be sliced right down the middle. At DeVry, when I was there, the servile arts were on top and the liberal arts were relegated to the general education department. It matters. As long as votes matter, it matters.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences History Deans 76

Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . The addition of 54 new faculty from underrepresented groups means the university has its most diverse group of faculty in its 200-year history.

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Inclusivity Equity Retention Faculty 105