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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties.

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Utah Receives $50 Million Gift for College of Engineering

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Utah College of Engineering will receive $50 million and a new name, honoring benefactor John Price, a university graduate and former diplomat. Pending approval from the Board of Trustees, the college will be named the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering. Hide by line?

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What Makes Popular History Popular?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Colleges award tenure

Inside Higher Ed

Austin Porter, art history and American studies. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Guy Bresler, electrical engineering and computer science. Otto Cordero, civil and environmental engineering. Michael Carbin, electrical engineering and computer science. Ming Guo, mechanical engineering.

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Algorithmic Bias Continues to Negatively Impact Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Hadis Anahideh, an assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and another co-author of the study, said she and her team expected to encounter bias in algorithms. They need to be aware that algorithms can be biased and unfair because of bias in the history, data.

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Why fintech, and how is political science useful for a fintech job?

HEPI

How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology? To the contrary, I feel my degree could not have been a better one to set me up for my work in a financial technology company. What is the connection between political science and project management? And how did I end up in fintech?

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

. “We mustn’t kill liberal education in order to save it, but we must also recognize that it is under genuine threat and that if it fails to adapt, it will only become even more marginal and peripheral,” wrote Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. ” The post Oh, the humanit(ies)!