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Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) in the nation, focusing on tactical autonomy, human-machine teaming, and artificial intelligence through its Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy. For example, Howard hosts one of only fifteen U.S.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Immediately, Dayshawn and I went into planning, says Jackson, Eight years later, Compton College is breaking ground on a 250+ bed housing facility, becoming the first community college in Los Angeles County to offer campus housing to its students. HPI has a long history of serving higher education and, specifically, larger community colleges.

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Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs

Dan Cohen

We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email. (Sara Gothard, Library of Babel , 2017, in the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library, part of their recently digitized art collection.).

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A practical way to modernize midcentury academic spaces for today’s learners

University Business

This reaction is perfectly in line with studies of how materials, forms, colors, light and textures influence human psychology. At Max Lowenthal Hall, we designed for todays students, while preserving and referencing a modernist history, and providing flexibility to adapt to future trends.

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70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in May 1954 that separate educational facilities between Black students and white students was “inherently unequal," dismissing the concept of “separate but equal” in public education, the nation began the task of desegregating its schools. “It

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Alum Donates $100 Million to New NYU Building

Inside Higher Ed

The gift is among the largest in the history of NYU’s Washington Square campus. Scheduled to open in 2023, the facility will include new classrooms, a proscenium theater, rehearsal spaces, practice rooms, common areas, athletic facilities, a freshman dorm, dining areas and faculty housing. Hide by line?:

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961. These are overseen by the Chief Financial and Operating Officer and variously serving Technology; Estates and Facilities; Human Resources; Research and Enterprise; Planning and Risk; External Relations; student needs etc.