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A total of 3,764 undergraduate and graduate students walked the stage at Jones AT&T Stadium or the United Supermarkets Arena at Texas Tech

Following the establishment of the Texas Reskilling Support Fund Grant Program by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Tech is planning to offer tuition and fees assistance to students whose academic progress got impacted by COVID-19. This grant will be given to qualifying students who were unable to attend school in the fall of 2020 due to COVID-19-related circumstances. Tech Vice Provost Melanie Hart said that eligible students must be able to graduate within 12 months and hav...

04/27/21 Miami Dade College is collaborating with IBM on a spate of workforce development offerings, including expanded faculty training as well as digital courses in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity and quantum computing. The goal: to "enable students of diverse backgrounds and experiences to have access to strategic skills necessary to help them succeed in a rapidly changing workplace," according to a news announcement. The work will focus on four areas: A...

Gus Burger “Eat Off” held at UVA, winner received $100 gift card A University of Virginia student eats a Gus Burger at an "Eat Off" (Source: WVIR) By Max Marcilla | April 22, 2021 at 9:23 PM EDT - Updated April 22 at 9:23 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Some students were chowing down on Gus Burgers from White Spot on Thursday at the University of Virginia. While that’s a seemingly everyday occurrence on grounds, it was a bit different this time - because the students ate...

Art Bridges announces appointment of new Director of Art Bridges Fellows Program Before joining Art Bridges, Ryder was Manager, Public and University Programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State. BENTONVILLE, ARK .-Art Bridges Foundation announces the appointment of Alana Ryder as Director of the Art Bridges Fellows Program, effective immediately. “The Art Bridges Fellows Program is a cornerstone initiative that builds on our mission of expanding access to American art across the ...

Members of campus groups organized various events as part of the ‘healing and support’ week of Sexual Assault Awareness Month Monday-Friday, including a yoga class and supportive letter-writing session.   Six rapes have been reported on campus since the start of the Spring 2021 semester. University officials sent an email about sexual violence to the UA community in February, which sparked accusations from students of victim-blaming rhetoric. Among U.S. undergraduates, 26.4% of ...

IBM Gives Miami Dade College $10M for Advanced Tech Classes Over the next three years, IBMs Global University Programs group will help fund career development at Miami Dade College in fields such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, quantum computing. by Rob Wile, The Miami Herald / April 20, 2021 Miami Dade College (TNS) — Artificial intelligence. Cloud computing. Cybersecurity. Quantum computing. These are ...

Texas Tech received a grant from the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities to improve student success. With this grant, individuals involved in the initiative will use a data maturity matrix to improve in three main areas: High-quality digital learning, academic advising and academic readiness support, focusing on transfer students from two-year institutions. “The purpose of the grant, generally, is to provide meaningful opportunities to support APLU member institutions like Texas ...

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Google is under fire for the way it recruits engineers from colleges. According to the Washington Post: For years, Google’s recruiting department used a college ranking system to set budgets and priorities for hiring new engineers. Some schools such as Stanford University and MIT were predictably in the “elite” category, while state schools or institutions that churn out thousands of engineering grads annually, such as Georgia Tech, were assigned to