An anonymous reader writes: A great migration is happening on U.S. college campuses. Ever since the fall of 2008, a lot of students have walked out of English and humanities lectures and into STEM classes, especially computer science and engineering. English majors are down more than a quarter (25.5 percent) since the Great Recession, according to data compiled by the National…
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Some Colleges Are Using Students’ Smartphones To Track Their Locations on Campus
Lee Gardner, reporting for Chronicle: James Dragna had his work cut out for him when he became “graduation czar” at California State University at Sacramento, in 2016. The university’s four-year graduation rate sat at 9 percent. It hadn’t moved in about 30 years, he says. Like many student-success experts at public colleges these days, Dragna combed through academic data about students…
Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit?
“In a widely-reprinted essay, Ohio State University assistant professor of physics Chris Orban ponders whether the tech world did students a favor or disservice by getting states to count computer science as high school math credit,” writes long-time Slashdot reader theodp. The assistant physics professor writes:
In 2013, a who’s who of the tech world came together to launch a new nonprofit…
Self-taught web developer proves that anything is possible
Julio is a web developer now living and working in Talca, Chile. Originally from Venezuela, Julio had to move to a new country and switch careers due to the political crisis in his native Venezuela. In his own words, this is how he used Coursera to start a new life and a new career. B.C. […]
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Xunjing Wu on a Mid-career Switch to Computer Science
Halfway through her first year in MCIT Online, Wu says she’s already considering applying for a product management role. Xunjing Wu was working as a GIS analyst in a global infrastructure company in 2015 when she signed up for her very first computer science course online. With a background in urban planning, she used spatial […]
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‘Never Commit a Crime When Your Phone Is Connected to a Wi-Fi Network’
“Like many bad ideas, this one started with Bud Light,” reports Slate. As four high school seniors sat around shooting the breeze before graduation, they decided to vandalize their school as a senior prank. Disguised with T-shirts over their faces to evade security cameras, the young men originally set out to spray-paint “Class of 2018,” but in a moment one of…
Two-Thirds of American Employees Regret Their College Degrees
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: A college education is still considered a pathway to higher lifetime earnings and gainful employment for Americans. Nevertheless, two-thirds of employees report having regrets when it comes to their advanced degrees, according to a PayScale survey of 248,000 respondents this past spring that was released Tuesday. Student loan debt, which has ballooned…
Amazonians Visit High Schools To Inspect the Amazon Future Engineer Troops
theodp writes: Amazon Future Engineer students across the country are graduating from high school,” reports the Amazon Day One blog, “and to celebrate, Amazonians visited select classrooms to meet some of the students and to check out their impressive computer science progress and end of year projects [TV coverage of an ‘Amazon graduation’]. Amazon Future Engineer “is a four-part, childhood-to-career program…
Should Schools Teach Computer Science Instead of Physics?
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: “Other than trying to keep my kids from falling down the stairs in the Governor’s mansion I don’t know how much I deal with physics daily,” quipped Florida governor Ron DeSantis as he explained his support for a bill pushed by Microsoft and Code.org lobbyists that will allow computer science credit to be substituted for traditional…
Deepening Her Knowledge Of The Quality Field: Meet Efi
What program did you take on edX, and what were your goals in taking it? Since my graduation from the Engineering University, I have worked on 4 different positions at different factories that applied some Lean Six Sigma tools to improve their quality and productivity. As I kept “falling” on them from job to job, it didn’t take me long to…