Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The Gates Foundation report, Equitable Value: Promoting Economic Mobility and Social Justice through Postsecondary Education , underscored the importance of intentional use of data to close education gaps. We believe there are at least two obvious ones: First, data matters. ” Second, poverty matters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Over the past year, the Alfred P. of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

When parents pay $100,000 a year, they want to feel they get more out of [postsecondary education] than that their kid has an appreciation of a different, distant world — they want something with a decent paying job at the back end.”

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Specifically, the proportion of men in the three most prevalent groups of the technical workforce, ‘science, engineering and production technicians’, ‘IT technicians’ and ‘architectural technicians’, is much higher than that of women (5.0, percentage points, respectively). per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

In fact, instructors must move beyond traditional teaching methods and implement innovative instructional practices to elevate the skills of all students in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) (Eltanahy, 2023; Khana et al., Social and Economic Maxims of ICT in Education. IGI Global.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“Honestly, this happens so frequently now that my first reaction was, ‘You don’t need to disclose anything to me that will make you feel uncomfortable,’” said Mozafari, who teaches engineering communication at Cornell’s College of Engineering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve seen the broader higher education community latching on to this narrative just to get a better understanding of whether or not specific institutions and programs are paying off. We have data from the U.S. No matter what program you’re in, you are likely having some exposure to those fields.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. in Higher Education and a B.S. in Information Sciences & Technology from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.B.A. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

In schools across the nation, there has been a heightened awareness of the need for students to earn postsecondary degrees – as there is substantial evidence that it leads to better labor market outcomes and a higher quality of life. Yet, there are still large disparities in postsecondary degree attainment for Black males (Espinosa et al.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

The researchers found a dearth of longitudinal studies on the intersection of postsecondary education and civic engagement. There are issues now that we face that rely on a certain level of science and scientific knowledge in order to be an informed citizen. That’s an area for us to go deeper.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

contributed to steady gains in college enrollment, although only 2% of the population earned a postsecondary degree. Colleges that began offering programs for professional training—such as business, accounting, engineering, and teaching—enjoyed enrollment bumps due to the popularity of these degree programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, among the reasons that this society established one of the world’s first systems of public education was to prepare a citizenry capable of democratic self-government. But today, per-pupil federal spending on K-12 history and civics education averages $0.05

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Higher education and the Department of Education Many accounts of Project 2025’s educational impact draw attention to its attack on the Department of Education, which makes sense, since this is where the document focuses its academic attention. It wants universities to develop new technologies, but not to advance DEI.

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