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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Research has shown that underrepresented minorities, including women, are more likely to introduce innovative concepts — albeit fewer accepted concepts compared to those of white men. Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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Empower Learners for the Age of AI: a reflection

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students. 2001), I am amazed you are still functioning. I want to unpack these from three different perspectives, the individual student, faculty, and institutions. Individual Learner.

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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

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Gay, dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will succeed current Harvard President Dr. Lawrence S. Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. Biden Administration U.S. The Biden-Harris administration anticipated that the debt forgiveness would impact 95% of student loan borrowers, or about 43 million people. Some good news came in late summer as U.S.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

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In fact, the graduation rate for STEM majors in liberal arts colleges tends to be quite high–because faculty work hard to ensure that students interested in the sciences actually make it through these difficult majors. Bush in 2001. MacRae , Class of 1940, Biochemist at M.I.T. MacRae , Class of 1940, Biochemist at M.I.T.

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Interdisciplinarity

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A recent Times Higher Education article explored ‘academic impostor syndrome’ from the point of view of an academic whose teaching and research crossed conventional subject boundaries. Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. Research selectivity and interdisciplinarity.