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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s a burgeoning industry, expected to grow 7% between 2020 and 2030. Other projects receiving grants include one to support students in becoming accountants, one to combat STEM attrition by better preparing high school students to take college computer science courses, and one to improve awareness of career pathways in healthcare.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to Dell Technologies, professionals believe that 85% of STEM jobs that will be needed in 2030 don’t exist currently. At the same time, women greatly outnumber men in the world of healthcare. STEM experts are instrumental in the design, development, and implementation of solutions to the world’s complex problems.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As we are preparing our students for skills in artificial intelligence, we know that by 2030 there will be new positions that we don’t even know what they’re called at this point, but we want our students to be ready.” Roy says issues around healthcare, agriculture, robotics, and natural language processing are also being addressed.

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Is betting big on graduate school enrollment growth a major risk for higher ed?

University Business

18- to 24-year-olds are opting out of college while students’ interest in college and universities outside the top 100 is forecast to drop by more than 10% between 2025 and 2030, the report says. Nearly one-third of U.S. Identifying the programs with the greatest growth potential was seen as a third significant obstacle.

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These 10 schools found their footing creating quality alternative credentials

University Business

Among the first objectives in Kansas State’s 2023 strategic plan is to enroll 5,000 to 7,000 alternative credential-seeking learners by 2030 across continuing education courses, micro-credentials and industry training collaboratives. It took 10 months for the university to implement the system.

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A century in the making, Duquesne University opens its new medical school

University Business

Pennsylvania has a predicted shortage of 1,000 primary care physicians by 2030, according to the Hospital and Healthcare Association of Pennsylvania, and twice as many medically underserved areas than the national state average. Read more from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Artificial intelligence? What happened to virtual reality?

University Business

I’m an evangelist of sorts for virtual reality in higher ed, but I don’t think I’m overstating the case when I say that VR in its many forms holds the capacity to revolutionize a multitude of sectors, including education, healthcare, entertainment and engineering.