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A (Dorm) Room of One’s Own

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academic work requires material access to information in libraries, and other resources like computers and (relatively quiet) space in which to write. An FRN membership lets financially pressed universities like mine leverage NYU’s resources to offer great opportunities for professional development and scholarly production.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. These inform strategic decisions to address inequities and improve outcomes. … Santiago and Sarita E. Neufeldt, president of CSUSM.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. York lauds the program as “really smart.”

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. She earned her Ed.D.

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Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar

CAPD

Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics and literature. At Cambridge, she will pursue an MPhil in technology policy. She has presented her work at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Over the years, we’ve developed expertise in how to use blogs to support learning and teaching , engage audiences with our work, build communities, and underpin professional development. Existing self-service and custom developed WordPress blogs. Computers & Education , 56 (2), 441–451. link] Gogia, L.

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Let’s Stop Talking About ChatGPT

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Weissman goes on to suggest some possible early defenses, such as more in-class assignments, or internet-disabled computer labs on campus where writing can occur. Granting this much power and agency to a nonliving piece of technology that we control seems counterproductive to me.