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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Starting with programs for middle and high school students, through supports for graduate students, the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) has provided inspiration, insight, encouragement, and community for engineering students.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.” in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D.

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Riding the wave of technological change to enable transformative learning for all

HEPI

On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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These public colleges and MSIs are powerful economic engines

University Business

Low-key public colleges and minority-serving institutions, commonly known as MSIs, are serving as strong engines for economic mobility for the average American, according to new data by Third Way, a center-left think tank focused on improving learner outcomes. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology $76,489 $32,566 0.50

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Dr. John B. Slaughter, First Black Chancellor of the University of Maryland, Dies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Education or innovation. Which comes first?

The PIE News

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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Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

HEPI

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).