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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jim was one of the speakers that was easiest to understand, recalls Dr. Kevin Iga, a professor of mathematics at Pepperdine University and a collaborator on Gates work on Adinkras, regarding the time he first met Gates in the early 2000s at an annual summer workshop on math where Gates was presenting in Park City, Utah.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). in 2003 – and 7.5% are immense. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population. rise from 7% to 13.6%.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. This job requires being on 24-hours a day,” he says. “I at Stanford.

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Collaboration vs. Competition in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

She explained her own approach: “My biggest strategic focus right now is on faculty impact. The emphasis must be on professional development to handle innovation, because if we don't teach faculty how to enhance teaching excellence and use innovation, we've failed as institutions. in educational psychology.

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Collaboration vs. Competition in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

She explained her own approach: “My biggest strategic focus right now is on faculty impact. The emphasis must be on professional development to handle innovation, because if we don't teach faculty how to enhance teaching excellence and use innovation, we've failed as institutions. in educational psychology.

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. Faculty is a leadership role. When you're a faculty member, you're your own boss. Through our research, we're leaders.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

We focus on ourselves as competitors at our institutions, and we focus on student success as being about how we deliver on our promise to our students, and we do not look at student success as being a holistic marker that should cross institutions and be about how we collaborate to help each student succeed.”