This week’s news roundup includes several interesting stories from The Chronicle of Higher Education:
Harvard Offers New Doctorate for School Leaders Who Aim to Shake Up Status Quo (An academic PhD program for wanna-be change-leaders) Diversity Increases at Public Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs are attracting students of diverse backgrounds) College Enrollments Will Be More Diverse Over Next Decade, Report Says (No surprises here: more women, more people of color) What Traditional Academics Can Learn From a Futurist’s University (A new university frames grand challenges in a multidisciplinary context) 5 College Majors On the Rise (Includes an interesting description of computational science)
