University Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

. “No matter how much technology or machines integrate into our culture, we’re all human beings functioning with those machines,” says Jessica Hooten Wilson , the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University’s Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

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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 polymer materials from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and a Ph.D. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

Dr. Hank Weddington The grant is designed to address science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teacher shortages and create pathways for underrepresented students to become STEM educators, according to Dr. Hank Weddington, dean of the College of Education and Human Services. Lenoir-Rhyne University has been awarded a $1.2

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

It is my great pleasure to announce that Dr. Tricia Serio has accepted the role of Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington. As Provost at UMass Amherst, she launched and led initiatives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for faculty, staff and students.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 31, 2023

Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom. Together, we built assignments that asked students to engage generative technologies at different points in their writing process.

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HEPI

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. We must invest in research and technology if the country wants to attract global talent and compete internationally.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

With roots dating back to 1891, the university has evolved to address new technologies, especially in agriculture, and prepare readily employable graduates. A&T Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, is working on developing an all-natural, antiviral disinfectant with promising results in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

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Coursera blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Today, I am delighted to announce a Master of Science in Software Engineering from West Virginia University (WVU). This affordable degree is $20,940* and ranks in the top 30 online master’s in computer information technology programs in the U.S. By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera. according to Lightcast data**.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

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. a chance to be on their campuses and explore what it means to be in a place built for them.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“As emerging technologies abruptly change the way we live and work, higher ed finds itself in a conundrum,” she says. As an engineer, the most critical thing I had to embrace—and it was hard work—was communication.” ” The college isn’t just looking at STEM in new ways, Kilic adds. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. It is fair to say that all education in the 21st century includes technology in some form. From the aforementioned disciplines, 667 positions were reviewed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Byrd, former special advisor to the provost at Georgia State University (GSU), said that institutions are struggling to diversify their faculty. Dr. Amer Ahbed, vice provost for DEI at UVM, said his institution is excited to be among the initial participants in this database. We’ve not seen the growth that we want.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions. Dr. Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University. “So,

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Recent years have seen institutions experiment with integrating extended reality into their teaching and research on campus, and there has been no shortage of ambitious predictions about the technology’s potential impact. Q1: Why integrate extended reality experiences into open, online courses? Q3: What’s coming next?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Educational technology company CEOs may have dollar signs in their eyes.) “Generative AI and ChatGPT technology are brilliantly innovative. At the same time, it’s like opening Pandora’s box … We have to build in safeguards so that these technologies are adopted responsibly.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Shortages in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields will be considerably less with only 10 major metropolitan areas expected to face a shortage. It is predicted that Washington, D.C., Dallas and Boston will experience the greatest shortages relative to projected labor market demand.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Physics and engineering have long experimented with studio and collaborative design space concepts that have much in common with general purpose active learning classrooms. 1 strategic technology, with the group predicting that the then “experimental” trend would be “mainstream” by 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

“It didn’t matter if you sat in IT or our academic technology group or in one of the schools or foreign facilities office where you rarely interacted with the academics—the shared goal was so clear to everybody,” said Matthew Rascoff, Stanford’s vice provost for digital education.

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UW Presidential Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

As we approach the start of the academic year next month, I’m writing to let you know 2022–23 will be Mark Richards’ last year as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Mark plans to step down as provost in summer 2023, after he completes his five-year term in the position.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Dr. Roberta Rincon, associate director of research for the Society of Women Engineers, agrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. In 2022, The Mount received a Title V HSI grant to develop new resources to help students who struggle in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs, otherwise known as STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As former provost, Fleming spoke at length about how tuition is the grease that spins the wheels of higher education. “But they’re all getting more expensive. All kinds of compromises are being made around what people would like to see, which is lower costs of tuition.” But lowering tuition isn’t a simple task.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Warren Manning, Provost for Innovation and Research at the University of Derby, and Dr Jenna Townend, FHEA, Principal Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor at the Uni versity of Derby.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation 3 years ago , CU Boulder announced its first performance-based degree on Coursera, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MS-EE). McDonald , CU Boulder’s Senior Vice Provost of Online Education, to hear more about how they’ve done it and what they’ve learned.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Her tenure at Earlham was marked by fundraising initiatives that raised around $85 million, the implementation of new scholarships and the introduction of several highly sought majors, including accounting, engineering and data science. She also oversaw the addition of a softball program and the construction of its home stadium.

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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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University Business

MAY 26, 2023

Stephen Perez currently serves as interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs. His longest tenure was in Sacramento State for 20 years, where his responsibilities ranged from professor to provost. During the 2016-17 academic year, Lee also led the academic affairs department as interim provost.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The University at Buffalo (UB) is experiencing remarkable growth in international enrollment, with students from 104 countries choosing UB for its focus on high-demand fields like computer science , artificial intelligence (AI), engineering, data science.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“Every time I taught it, it kind of doubled,” said Duma, professor of engineering and director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science. More than 1,000 students signed up. “We tend to think, ‘Oh, we have to do everything in person.’

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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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EAB

MAY 16, 2023

They also touch on the role of technology in identifying struggling students quickly and connecting those students with the right advisors and resources to get them back on track. My role here at the institution is I'm the Director of Academic Technology. I'll start off first talking about the underutilization of technology.

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Coursera blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Universities such as Anáhuac University Network (Red de Universidad Anáhuac) , Ball State University , Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) , London Business School , and S.P. The curriculum will introduce students to contemporary operating systems, hardware, systems programming, cloud technologies, and more. “As

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University Business

JUNE 16, 2023

Department of Defense on nuclear technology. He then gained his research and teaching experience at West Point, serving in its physics and nuclear engineering department. Ochoa currently serves as the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at San Diego State University.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MAY 29, 2022

May 29, 2022 – Higher Ed Without Borders a podcast series dedicated to education professionals worldwide announced its opening guest will be Dr. Ehab Abdel-Rahman, Provost of The American University in Cairo. Dr. Abdel-Rahman is the Provost of the American University in Cairo (AUC). The episode will be available on June 7 th.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Riverso, however, hails from a distinguished background in private industry, specifically in engineering and construction. million for technology upgrades. president. “It

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