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3 Questions on UT Austin’s New $10K Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Confessions of a Community College Dean

We do this through “at-scale” program architecture, which simply means that our programs are built from the ground up to educate thousands of students at a time. For students, there are several major advantages to this model of graduate education. First, obviously, is price.

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Can the English Major Be Saved?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

English was once the discipline that thought most intensely and penetratingly about how to effectively communicate complicated ideas and technical information and needs to reassert that role and not fob off that responsibility onto poorly paid adjuncts or graduate students. Addressing the ongoing crisis of graduate education.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

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There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences. As you can see, our education is very relevance-inspired, which enables students to get gainful employment and become people who matter once they are educated. We also have the first design school in the country.