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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%.

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How Digital Engagement Enhances the Student Experience

Eric Stoller

The following is an excerpt from Chris Douce’s review of my keynote “How digital engagement enhances the student experience” presented at the Higher Education Academy’s HEA 2017 Annual conference: Generation TEF. — Dr Anne Preston (@Prestontales) July 5, 2017. The opening keynote was by Eric Stoller.

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Working environments: a short overview of the literature

SRHE

Morrison and Macky (2017) applied the established Job Demands-Resources model to explore the demands of shared work environments and hot-desking arrangements and found that open offices increase cognitive demands on employees, leading to higher job dissatisfaction. Personal communication to Kipar, N.,

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Colleges need to address rise of white nationalism (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As we reflect on the rise of extremism, we often overlook one powerful approach: the role that higher education can play in inoculating students against indoctrination into white nationalism. The recently released Final Report from the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan.

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3 Questions for Coursera’s CEO on Revenue Share

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation The biggest higher education story of 2023 might just be the Education Department’s review of the rules that allow schools and companies to enter into tuition revenue–sharing agreements. We host over 40 degrees, including 16 from accredited U.S.-based