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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Two London unis merge to become “powerful multi-faculty” institution

The PIE News

As a combined university, we broaden the opportunities and outcomes available for our students through the possibility of engagement between different disciplines, says Professor Elisabeth Hill, deputy president and provost of City St Georges, and strategic lead for the merger.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. Dr. Dolores Duran-Cerda, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, says administration believes in being student-ready, not expecting students to be college-ready.

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HBCU Conference Connects Secondary to Postsecondary

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students become very familiar with the environment—they will finish at home.” Dr. David Thomas, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, and Dr. Damara Hightower Mitchell, provost and vice-president of Voorhees University in Denmark, SC, said their schools offer summer programming opportunities, giving students across the U.S.

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Dartmouth Launches New Research Institute Focused On Black Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She describes it as the 'little engine that will,' and the result of that work is something she is proud of. The Office of the Provost at Dartmouth has given $1.3 Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown is the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life's inaugural director. The institute is being launched with initial funding of $2.3

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3 Questions About Extended Reality and Online Learning

Inside Higher Ed

To learn more about Michigan’s approach to integrating open online learning and extended reality and what they have learned, I spoke to my friend James DeVaney , associate vice provost for academic innovation and founding executive director of U-M’s Center for Academic Innovation , to learn more.

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Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director?

Inside Higher Ed

Mark Law, the director, also says he was told that the university’s Board of Trustees insisted on his ouster, against the will of the university’s president and provost. Law remains a distinguished professor of engineering at UF. “The Board of Trustees of UF fired me effective August 15.

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