Remove Engineering Remove Students Remove University Provost
article thumbnail

CIEE awards four US institutions $1m each to transform study abroad

The PIE News

The initiative seeks to create international exchange programs that will advance institutional goals while improving student outcomes. It hopes to provide examples of how a well-designed program can improve college enrolments, student retention rates, student graduation rates, and enhance student employability and economic mobility.

article thumbnail

Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

At stake is an institution’s financial investment in a new program and potentially the career outcomes of students, researchers said. ” 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.

article thumbnail

Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For the first time in a decade, year-over-year enrollment increased at the university and the overall retention rate was 81.1%, the highest reported since the school began tracking the metric in 1991. Black student enrollment, for example, went up 2.3% over the previous year, and there was a bump of 4.7% in Hispanic enrollment. “We

Provost 111