Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The exclusion of Florida State University’s football team from the College Football Playoff serves as a stark reminder of the challenges facing high school recruits, particularly quarterbacks, hoping to join top-tier college football programs. In the past, entry-level roles in technology-based careers primarily focused on task execution.

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The PIE News

MARCH 4, 2025

New Zealand has introduced a 56% rise in the number of awards for Vietnamese students, who can now study at any of the country’s eight public universities or three public institutes of technology as scholarship recipients. The scholarship is aimed at outstanding high school students seeking to study at secondary schools in New Zealand.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

International education has been no exception to the widely reported layoffs across the technology sector, with a number of digital student recruitment companies and online program management providers cutting staff numbers. The post Technology layoffs hit international education sector appeared first on The PIE News.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Key Takeaways: Traditional “funnel” models for enrollment management are outdated, as they focus on broad recruitment rather than personalized, data-driven approaches. No longer can recruitment efforts be generalized; instead, tailored approaches must be designed for diverse student profiles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

While women have achieved parity in some STEM fields, such as biological sciences, they remain underrepresented in high-paying and high-demand areas like engineering and computer science. The absence of minority voices in the development of resources, technologies, and healthcare solutions often results in the neglect of entire communities.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 31, 2024

This year, education marketing will continue to evolve rapidly, and staying ahead means adapting to the latest trends, technologies, and audience expectations. Take full advantage of new technology when creating an education marketing plan. Platforms like YouTube and TikTok are now major search engines for younger audiences.

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HEPI

JANUARY 27, 2025

This blog is by Jo Johnson, Executive Chairman of FutureLearn, a Member of the Council of the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Visiting Professor of Kings College London. He served as Universities and Science Minister under David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are trained using large datasets from public audiobook websites, resulting in technology that excels at transcribing voices similar to professional narrators but struggles with challenges like second-language accents, underrepresented dialects, and speech impacted by disabilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. We are very intentional in how we recruit, retai Dr. Jose Fierro n and support completion to our diverse student body,” says Dr. Jose Fierro, president. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). anticipates a coming shortage of workers in engineering and tech – there are projected to be 10.9 of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In the role, he worked to improve the school’s recruitment and retention of African American students and faculty. Before he arrived at University of Maryland, Slaughter served in multiple STEM-related roles, including electrical engineer with General Dynamics Corporation; head of information systems technology at the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

The donation was part of the “ Making Men of Consequence ” fundraising campaign, which has generated $290 million to expand scholarship support, faculty recruitment efforts, and investments in academic programs and campus improvements at Morehouse.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most Schools Plan to Increase Global Recruitment Initiatives. colleges plan to increase global visibility initiatives within the next five years “by ramping up recruitment of international students, developing additional study abroad experiences, or other efforts,” according to a new report. Source: Forbes. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2023

Minh-an Pence Minh-an Pence has been named director of human resources for the Division of Information Technology at Virginia Tech. Pence served as an outreach and engagement recruiting specialist for the Division of Human Resources at Virginia Tech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

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. Dr. Hadis Anahideh, assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and co-author of this study. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

As part of this development, Wayne State University’s College of Engineering will provide hands-on experiences to high schoolers and establish workforce training in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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The PIE News

JUNE 26, 2024

Thanks to today’s market dynamics and advances in technology, education can rarely keep pace with innovation. Market dynamics are causing not only the language but the approach to education to change, in response to the needs of new industries and technologies. It’s the difference between being supply led and demand led.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2023

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. but only 34% of the STEM workforce; they also earn only 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering, 24% in physics, and 21% in computer science.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found increased soft skills competencies in students whose medical education was integrated with the humanities and arts. “We are emphasizing that even if the technology is good, success hinges on capturing human interest and fostering widespread human adoption.”

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HEPI

JANUARY 15, 2024

This research stems from the third phase of the ASPIRES project , based at UCL, which has tracked the career aspirations and plans of a cohort of young people in England from age 10/11 to age 21/22; with a focus on what shapes young people’s trajectories into, through and out of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. Mary’s University School of Science, Engineering and Technology First-Generation Summer Start Scholars Program St.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. The team also recruited student workers, who subsequently recruited their friends to attend the event.

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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.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Two consensus reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) determine educational programs that integrate learning experiences in the humanities, arts and social sciences with science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine lead to improved educational and career outcomes.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Sri Lanka’s higher education landscape is on the cusp of significant growth across multiple areas, including increased student recruitment, the opening of international branch campuses, and expanded engagement with schools,” Bahadur told The PIE News. “I’m

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The college also offers a 3+2 Engineering Program , where students spend three years at Earlham before transferring to an affiliated university, such as Columbia or Case Western Reserve, to complete an engineering degree. in the spring , reflecting ongoing challenges in retention and recruitment. in the fall and 620.33

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Emerging technologies, like AI and other software, are significantly changing the competencies needed in today’s workforce, which in turn affect the role higher education must now play in society. ” What needs an overhaul in academic programs? Their broader curriculum “teaches students what AI [is already] good at.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

In a perfect world, technology would streamline the communication process. On Open Badges alone—a leading format for verifiable, portable digital badges—learners can choose from more than 500,000 verifiable, sharable digital credentials, according to a 1EdTech and Credential Engine report.

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Liaison International

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Embracing new higher education technologies for the classroom as well as the application process will be the foundation of your engineering education program’s success. Fortunately, that higher education technology community already exists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

train future teachers, nurses, engineers, and more. Experts hope that, with more flexible funding, TCUs will be more easily able to not only support their students, but recruit and retain more faculty and expand programs that serve regional needs. The 35 TCUs in the U.S. There’s a drive in the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

In January 2022, Wiline Pangle, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at Central Michigan University (CMU), collaborated with 14 of her colleagues to create an innovative new program aimed at equipping students with often overlooked yet essential skills needed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Other industries are poaching higher ed IT talent at an unprecedented rate, and vacancies are mounting as higher ed institutions struggle to recruit talent from the market—especially when matching out-of-industry salaries and benefits is a non-starter. More on information technology. labor market, this trend holds true in the U.K.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 25, 2023

Researchers at Christopher Newport University (CNU) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how gender, race/ethnicity, and social identity impact STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) faculty experiences.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A new platform has ambitions to be a one-stop shop for study abroad, employing an AI-based engine to recommend universities and programs to prospective students all over the world. Launching six months ago, MetaApply has already partnered with 150 universities.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Historically, the US has also been successful, the report indicated, pointing to the Operation Paperclip which recruited over 1,600 German engineers and scientists after the Second World War. Governments should establish specialised task forces to actively recruit entrepreneurs and talented STEM professionals, it said.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 26, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday that it has approved nearly $25 million in grant funding to promote diversity and sustainability within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) workforce.

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