Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field has fragmented.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Paula Krebs Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes draws on findings from a number of different sources, including the Hamilton Project, the National Humanities Alliance, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, and Humanities Indicators. in philosophy.

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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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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. Cornell University : Cornell’s Department of Computer Science has been a pioneer in AI research since the 1990s.

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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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ACRLog

JANUARY 21, 2024

Throughout her tenure, she covered liaison duties that spanned across many Science and Engineering departments. I heard about this news during a monthly department meeting. Our department chair requested support and asked us to reach out if interested in taking over the STEM liaison roles.

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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. We pretty much have three options as international humanities majors. It prepares you for any job, anywhere.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Stassun, who holds the Stevenson Chair in Vanderbilt’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, also leads the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation. The center focuses on maximizing neurodiverse talent in the workforce by bringing together experts from various fields, including engineers, business scholars, and clinical practitioners.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Education is listening! Their February 15 press release ( see our post about it ) provides opportunities to inform the Department on two separate but related topic areas. They asked the Department not to throw the bundled services exception out completely, but to include more guardrails. We’re learning how to fish.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 million implementation grants from Sloan, which include scholarship funds for students in participating departments.

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UW Presidential Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

At the Institute for Protein Design with David and biochemistry department chair Professor Tricia Davis Today we learned that UW Medicine Professor of Biochemistry David Baker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with co-winners Demis Hassabis and John M.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But Heller is one of many to spot the four horsemen—call them defunding, recession, self-sabotage and artificial intelligence—on the humanities’ horizon. Heller makes only parenthetical reference to institutions, like the University of California, Berkeley , that have seen rising enrollments in humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University. . Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S. Wang holds a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 million implementation grants from Sloan, which include scholarship funds for students in participating departments.

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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. SSWD is dedicated to encouraging and supporting young people from underrepresented minority groups to pursue studies and careers in food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences, and other STEM fields.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2023

Academic disciplines were grouped into five categories: Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and Management. Here are the top three schools per the five general subject categories: Arts and Humanities Harvard University University of Cambridge (U.K.)

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here. Additionally, participants receive free books and online courses on MCAT test preparation.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. ” No argument from me on this one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. They also participated in networks dedicated to Black professionals in their discipline, such as the National Society of Black Engineers.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Today I want to talk to you about a certain kind of cybersecurity threat called ‘social engineering.’ Although the word ‘hacking’ often evokes an image of complicated technological systems, the truth is that many hacks originate with the manipulation of humans, not their devices. I’ll cover some examples more below.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 6, 2023

These latest courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees cover everything from accounting and IT to data science and software engineering. This program is an ideal way to prepare for career advancement in the field of software engineering—one of the most in-demand and fastest growing occupational fields in the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., engineering, the University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D.,

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EAB

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Higher education is experiencing the worst talent crunch in recent memory—and it is particularly acute for IT departments. Higher ed is still focused on system administrator and technical support positions instead of software engineers and developers. 5 key takeaways from an analysis of the U.S. IT labor market.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

He is now an assistant professor in the department of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus. He envisioned a career working at a pet store or with the state wildlife department. “It’s one of my earliest memories, seeing a bat hanging somewhere and wanting to touch it.”

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

A year ago, in August 2022, several UM faculty within the Department of Writing and Rhetoric began piloting AI-powered assistants in first-year writing courses. The hands-on agenda encouraged active experimentation with tools like ChatGPT to imagine curricular integration in disciplines from sciences to humanities.

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PeopleAdmin

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Monte Morast, PeopleAdmin’s Associate Director of Software Engineering, explained the nuances between data, analytics, and insights—terms which are sometimes used interchangeably but mean different things. The tools can measure DEI metrics by department, role type, or time period, and help identify potential areas of improvement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2023 Emerging Scholars of the Year are: Dr. Sharrelle Barber , assistant professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University Dr. Gerald Carter , assistant professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (EEOB), The Ohio State University Dr. Nathaniel Currie , assistant professor, Whitney M.

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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. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This week it released a draft of its memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department, laying out the framework for their division of duties. ” The Baltimore department was home to the Gun Trace Task Force , a group of officers who were found to have who used their authority to steal drugs and money, among other crimes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

“She is diligent, self-disciplined, and self-motivated,” said Dr. Nishika Edwards, educational research program coordinator at the University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine, Greenville, in the department of biomedical sciences. Agbomi’s interest areas involve tissue engineering, which will be her research for graduate school. “I

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, how many marketing departments have adopted generative AI prompt engineering competencies in any formal way?) For example, I know I have acquired competencies related to AI and prompt engineering. Practices will evolve within marketing departments. Or even ones I have acquired in the last six months.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

Regionally motivated collaboration is the key element of working across universities, local and regional organisations and government departments to deliver investment and growth opportunities. As has been pointed out elsewhere in this series , the narrative that universities do not, or are unwilling to, work together no longer holds water.

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