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Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students. As professor of political science, Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors — the 1984 Walter J. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

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Thinking about climate change and international study (Bryan Alexander)

Higher Education Inquirer

Greetings from London, where I’m attending a CIEE event on international study. I mentioned the many ways colleges and universities can react and be influenced by the crisis, then focused down to the question of international study. How can we reduce the carbon footprint of study abroad?

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

Curricula Earlham College offers a diverse range of undergraduate programs, with popular majors including Biology, Environmental Science, International Studies, Business, and Psychology. Strong International Focus Nearly 70% of Earlham students study abroad , and the college has partnerships with institutions worldwide.

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Study Abroad in College

Great College Advice

So if you are planning to pursue a Bachelors of Engineering, or other more specialized degrees—including business, nursing, or fine arts, among others—you need to ask admissions about the compatibility of study abroad programs with the major that you plan to pursue. Types of Study Abroad in College.

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Student Success & Equity in Math with Michael Wangler

Dr. Al Solano

We discuss the following topics: 9:49:23: The "Why": The data that clearly showed faculty things had to change. The progression studies below showed that a small number of students, often in the single digits, progressed through the math sequence. This showed the faculty what was possible." "We We did progression studies.

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Success Story: SUNY Oneonta

Via's

The office oversees both domestic and international faculty-led programs, exchange programs, and a provider program. “We Even though she was majoring in international/global studies, Denise says the seed to work in the education abroad field wasn’t planted until that trip to India. . “I

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Campus closures, mergers, cuts, and crises at the start of 2025 (Bryan Alexander)

Higher Education Inquirer

approximately 46 university faculty both tenured and adjunct will receive notice that their contracts will not be renewed for 2025-26. In my analogy tenured faculty represent that level of relative power.) Norbert College (Catholic, liberal arts, Wisconsin) is planning to cut faculty and its theology department. (I