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Women in STEM: Perception Versus Reality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. but only 34% of the STEM workforce; they also earn only 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering, 24% in physics, and 21% in computer science.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With roots dating back to 1891, the university has evolved to address new technologies, especially in agriculture, and prepare readily employable graduates. One thing that’s happening here at A&T and especially with digital agriculture and digital technology are the robots that we have out at the farm with the dairy unit,” says Faulkner.

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GenZ+GenAI: A whole new world and not a brand new world

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Kartic Subr, a Senior Lecturer in Computer Graphics within the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, delves into the pioneering realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in educational settings. They are an important aspect of plans surrounding technology in education.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school. It just takes time.

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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. My why is multifaceted.

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

Learning Disabilities and College Success Should a student with a learning disability share that information on the college application? Should students disclose this information or keep the diagnosis private? This is a tough call. In some ways, a learning difference is a sort of “secret identity” that might best be kept secret.

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My first chat with ChatGPT (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After hearing about the artificial intelligence model ChatGPT and its potential impact on the teaching of writing, I decided to try it to get a feel for the algorithm and what it might offer students. These are some of the questions I asked and answers I received (edited for length), followed by some of my own thoughts on the experience.