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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But those distractions also humanized instructors, according to the study. To humanize online learning, Pacansky-Brock notes, the professor-student relationship should “shift from one of impersonal professionalism toward relational authority. ” Inclusive, Collaborative Teaching and Course Design.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Included among the list of eligible qualifications – which will be monitored and reviewed on an annual basis – are some 226 courses in medical and nursing, professional health, diagnostic, allied health, teaching, engineering, ICT, agriculture and more. What about human capital development?” Would that not distort study choices?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Brown, despite having this country’s oldest applied mathematics program and the Ivy League’s oldest engineering program, isn’t in the Top 30, and Dartmouth isn’t among the Top 50 US and Canadian universities. Contributing to this ethos is an engineering, hands-on mind-set. Indeed, I’d say, predominates.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Melody speaks to all humans, rhythm speaks to everyone on the planet. 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. Music is the universal language.

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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. Each had a different minister with a separate place on the comms grid.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Divisions or departments might agree on expectations across courses. Michael Mindzak, assistant professor in the department of educational studies, Brock University. For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Researchers across academic departments use computer science tools to address an array of problems in health care, weather forecasting, ecommerce, transportation, finance, agriculture, energy systems, manufacturing, environmental monitoring, national security and more. Departments Spread Too Thin. Missing Seats at Important Tables.

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University Business

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Higher ed research and development spending grew the most in these fields: Non-science and engineering fields increased by 17.8% ($1 billion), reaching $6.9 billion Engineering fields increased by 11.5% ($1.8 billion Engineering fields increased by 11.5% ($1.8 billion), reaching $17.5 billion), reaching $84.3 billion total, $3.9

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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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