Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 4, 2024

As most recent Board Chair of the LEAD Fund (The Fund for Leadership, Equity, Access, and Diversity), Metzler exemplified dedication to inclusive excellence. ” With degrees in law and human rights from both Columbia University and the University of Oxford, and doctorates from Aberdeen, his academic journey was distinguished.

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Academia Inclusivity Equity Humanities 80

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

Medical School 122

Medical School Arts And Sciences Engineering Computer Science 122

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 Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields.

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Education University Retention Engineering 111

Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Council on Equitable AI urges policymakers, technologists, and funders to collaborate to ensure AI adoption prioritizes equity. Key components of the equity strategy include mitigating algorithmic bias through diverse datasets and promoting inclusive policymaking.

Higher Education 111

Higher Education Education Inclusivity Technology 111

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. 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.

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Faculty University President University Leadership 116

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 Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields.

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Education University Retention Engineering 100

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. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Engineering Computer Science Professional Development 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7%

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Engineering Equity Organization Academia 101

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. But it faces a shortage of workers with the necessary technical qualifications—in part because the field is so new and in part because it is highly interdisciplinary, combining biology, chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing.

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Computer Science Engineering Community College Provost 106

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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Computer Science Engineering Advise Organization 120

Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. The result has been more leaders across the university better prepared to strengthen equity and inclusion in challenging times.

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Inclusivity Arts And Sciences Equity Scholarship 97

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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Engineering Technology Humanities Academia 40

eLiterate

APRIL 23, 2023

” “ChatGPT will make thinking and humans obsolete.” “By replacing debt with equity capital from Apollo Funds, we are meaningfully reducing outstanding debt giving us optionality to invest in our portfolio of growing businesses.” If you want a better version of a search engine, use Microsoft Bing Chat.

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Model Humanities Engineering Equity 126

Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Through its Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) and as part of its larger commitment to sustainability, equity, and climate action, the University of Arizona (UArizona) has supported dozens of projects over the past two years that promote environmentalism and help address disparities in sustainability efforts. Photo courtesy UArizona CSF.

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University Empower Equity Professional Development 104

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

With new federal grant funding, the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has implemented several programs that bolster support for students with disabilities who pursue degrees and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

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Students Inclusivity Advocate Engineering 98

eLiterate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They started with prompt engineering. You can’t answer these questions confidently without the help of actual humans who would be using the product. At any rate, Khan Academy realized their early prompt engineering attempts had several shortcomings. Well-written prompts are miracles. They’re like magic spells.

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Engineering Humanities Model Achievement 77

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Available online as a free prototype, this sophisticated new chat bot can write stories, compose music, answer test questions, simulate human conversation, produce computer code and play simple games. engineering schools, and it provided 18 examples that closely match U.S. I asked ChatGPT to identify the top U.S.

Humanities 65

Humanities Engineering Deans Higher Education 65

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Equity Seeing so many African American undergraduate and graduate students excelling in STEM fields is inspiring to Smith-Jackson. We graduate the very highest number of Black engineers, Black women engineers, Black agriculturists,” says Smith-Jackson. We have faculty from outside the College of Engineering.

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Computer Science Engineering Department Degree 116

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

As John Warner has explained in Slate , this “crisis” of peer review is linked to a much bigger one—namely, the ever-deepening crisis in the humanities and higher education more broadly. We knew the engine of peer review needed a tune-up.

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Inclusivity Scholarship Equity Academia 95

HEPI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A classic example was the Warwick Manufacturing Group in the 1990s which forged deep relationships between an engineering and business school with local manufacturing partners. These transformed the competitive position of Warwick University. The Universities 4.0

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University Technology Model Medical School 61

University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

More from UB: How 2 college equity leaders advise navigating a changing climate amid backlash International applications and enrollment China and India remain as the two most significant countries whose students are applying for U.S. Since fall 2018, doctoral program enrollment among international students has increased by 9.7%.

Computer Science 88

Computer Science Arts And Sciences Students Advise 88

eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They write: In our study, since AI proved surprisingly capable, it was difficult to design a task in this experiment outside the AI’s frontier where humans with high human capital doing their job would consistently outperform AI. The Harvard paper gives us a clue that has implications for how we approach teaching AI literacy.

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Organization Humanities Engineering Technology 79

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Unlike the gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that have catalyzed highly visible and widespread efforts to increase gender parity, the vast underrepresentation of women in economics has received relatively little attention. The field of economics has a problem with women. one that has earned the U.S.

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Leadership Policy Inclusivity Empower 108

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. asks Delgado.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

But bigger issues—digital literacy, pedagogical practices, equity—are also at play. Much research has humans program machines to behave in a clever way, like playing chess, but, today, we emphasize machines that can learn, at least somewhat like human beings do.”. Often times this now happens via neural networks.

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Model Humanities Higher Education Deep Learning 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Moreover, workplace well-being initiatives often reside in human resources organizations, while faculty often do not consider themselves employees, thereby not knowing about or taking advantage of HR offerings that might support well-being and overall wellness.

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Faculty Higher Education Humanities Policy 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Moreover, workplace well-being initiatives often reside in human resources organizations, while faculty often do not consider themselves employees, thereby not knowing about or taking advantage of HR offerings that might support well-being and overall wellness.

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Faculty Higher Education Humanities Policy 97

ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

We’re excited to highlight the scholarship of Dr. Tiera Tanksley , Assistant Professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at CU Boulder and a Critical Race Technology Fellow at UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies within UCLA’s Urban Schooling program.

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Computer Science Technology Scholarship Humanities 59

University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

He has most recently served as vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. He previously served as the Institute Community and Equity Officer at MIT and the chief diversity officer and senior associate provost at the University of South Carolina. John Dozier – Columbia College (S.C) The final year will be his tenth.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Deans Equity 52

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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Arts And Sciences Provost Deans Retention 52

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For some assessments, professors may need to revert to traditional forms of teaching, learning and evaluation, which can be viewed as more human-centric. How can they promote equity and access? Draw attention to the virtues of human-written prose and prompt students to reflect on how their own cognitive processes surpass AI.

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Model Computer Science Technology Humanities 144

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Their engineers are working on a watermarking process to label generated text in order to curb intentional misuse, like academic cheating. What we should instead focus on is teaching our students data literacy so that they can use this technology to engage human creativity and thought. " I know you’re freaking out.

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Model Technology Humanities Department 107

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race. ” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity.

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Arts And Sciences Students History Equity 117

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To be clear, no one is declaring victory for diversity and equity in higher education—not in the United States, not around the world. I know that the foundation is very devoted to equity and diversity and balancing injustice in this country. We understand and respect that some may disagree with our judgment.

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Higher Education Scholarship Faculty Equity 114

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

This trend has major equity implications for these schools, given who enrolls in community colleges: Recent data shows that about 40 percent of community college students are Black or Latino, and nearly half are from lower-income backgrounds. percent at highly selective institutions this past spring.

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idfive agency

APRIL 8, 2022

But if there’s one good thing that’s come out of all the trouble, it’s been a renaissance in public awareness of problems around social justice, equity, and inclusion. As they study to become research scientists or engineers, Myerhoff Scholars can access a wide range of support services, mentoring, and peer involvement opportunities.

Inclusivity 52

Inclusivity Equity Higher Education Organization 52

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. Before entering education, she worked in private equity doing turnarounds, or bridge financing. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.”

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Higher Education Education Students Leadership 52