UNIVERSITIES

May 6, 2021

QS announces USA University Rankings 2021 — The top colleges driving Diversity and Employability.

Photo: Sather Tower, University of California, Berkeley. Image Credit: Daniel Parks.

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LONDON, May 6, 2021 — Offering unique insight into diversity drives, research excellence, and employability enhancement, QS Quacquarelli Symonds - recognized internationally for their QS World University Rankings portfolio - released their second annual list of America’s top universities. Harvard University remains the national number-one.

The focus on Diversity provides students with information about which universities are doing most to reduce sectoral gender and racial inequities. The University of California Davis and New York University jointly lead in the Diversity indicator.

• Only six of the top-20 universities also achieve a top-20 score for Diversity & Internationalization.

• Among the Top-100, the highest student ethnic diversity institutions are UC Riverside, UC Irvine, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

• All bar one of the top-10 for Student Ethnicity Mix is a public university, indicating that public universities are meeting their social obligations to increase Diversity.

• Among the Top-100, the institutions with the highest proportion of female staff are liberal arts colleges - Barnard College and Wellesley College, with over 60% female academic staff.

• Some of America’s top research institutions perform less strongly in gender diversity. MIT, scoring third for Research, has only 28% female staff, and Stanford (second for Research) only records 35% of its staff as female.

• QS’s data shows that tech-focused institutions still lag behind their peers in terms of widening female workforce participation. Among the ranking’s top 100, the institutions with the lowest ratio of female to male staff are Caltech, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, and MIT.

The QS USA University Rankings also prioritizes employability and teaching quality as crucial lenses to assess institutional performance.

Jack Moran, a QS Spokesperson, said: “While the overall QS World University Rankings continue to command record levels of interest, we know that the American higher education sector is wrestling with questions that do not fall within the scope of our global rankings - questions of equity, access, representation, and social justice. The QS USA University Rankings shine some independent light on those institutions that are doing most to foster the important relationship between education and social change.”

Containing more than 350 universities, this year’s QS USA Rankings is the largest yet. New York state leads as the most represented state, with 74 universities. California is the next best-performing with 38.

Public universities continue to perform strongly, with two places in this year’s top five and seven in the top 30. If you’re looking to take advantage of the benefits of studying at a public university, any of these institutions would be worth considering.

QS USA University Rankings 2021

• Top 100

1. Harvard University — Cambridge
2. Stanford University — Stanford
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — Cambridge
4. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) — Berkeley
5. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) — Los Angeles
6. Yale University — New Haven
7. Columbia University — New York City
8. Princeton University — Princeton
9. New York University (NYU) — New York City
10. University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia
11. University of Chicago — Chicago
12. Cornell University — Ithaca
13. Duke University — Durham
14. Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore
15. University of Southern California — Los Angeles
16. Northwestern University — Evanston
17. Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh
18. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor
19. Brown University — Providence
20. Boston University — Boston
21. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) — Pasadena
22. Emory University — Atlanta
23. Rice University — Houston
24. University of Washington — Seattle
25. Washington University in St. Louis — St. Louis
26. Georgetown University — Washington DC.
27. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) — San Diego
28. Vanderbilt University — Nashville
29. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin
30. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Champaign
31. University of Rochester — Rochester
32. Dartmouth College — Hanover
33. University of North — Carolina
34. University of California, Davis — Davis
35. University of Florida — Gainesville
36. Tufts University — Medford
37. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) — Chicago
38. Georgia Institute of Technology — Atlanta
39. Stony Brook University, State University of New York — Stony Brook
40. University of Virginia — Charlottesville
41. Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland
42. Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick
43. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) — Santa Barbara
44. Pennsylvania State University — University Park
45. George Washington University — Ashburn
46. University of California, Irvine — Irvine
47. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame
48. University of Miami — Miami
49. Northeastern University — Boston
50. The Ohio State University — Columbus
51. University at Buffalo SUNY — Buffalo
52. University of Maryland, College Park — College Park
53. Purdue University — West Lafayette
54. University of Minnesota Twin Cities — Minneapolis
55. Boston College — Newton
56. Michigan State University — East Lansing
57. University of Massachusetts Amherst — Amherst
58. University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison
59. Syracuse University — Syracuse
60. Lehigh University — Bethlehem
61. University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh
62. Arizona State University — Phoenix
63. Brandeis University — Waltham
64. Temple University — Philadelphia
65. Texas A&M University — College Station
66. The University of Arizona — Tucson
67. The University of Houston — Houston
68. Binghamton University SUNY — Binghamton
69. Drexel University — Philadelphia
70. North Carolina State University — Raleigh
71. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Troy
72. University of Connecticut — Storrs
73. The University of Georgia — Athens
74. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Blacksburg
75. University of New Mexico — Albuquerque
76. Indiana University Bloomington — Bloomington
77. Tulane University — New Orleans
78. University of Colorado Boulder — Boulder
79. Florida State University — Tallahassee
80. University of South Florida — Tampa
81. Illinois Institute of Technology — Chicago
82. University of California, Riverside — Riverside
83. University of California, Santa Cruz — Santa Cruz
84. Howard University — Washington DC.
85. University of Texas Dallas — Richardson
86. Santa Clara University — Santa Clara
87. Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem
88. University of Maryland, Baltimore County — Baltimore
89. University of Utah — Salt Lake City
90. George Mason University — Fairfax
91. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) — Newark
92. University of Massachusetts Boston — Boston
93. University of Kansas — Lawrence
94. University at Albany SUNY — Albany
95. Oregon State University — Corvallis
96. University of Delaware — Newark
97. University of the Pacific — Stockton
98. Rutgers University-Newark — Newark
99. The University of Hawaii at Mānoa — Honolulu
100. San Diego State University — San Diego

• 101-110

• University of Iowa — Iowa City
• The University of Oklahoma — Norman
• Baylor University — Waco
• College of William and Mary — Williamsburg
• Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken
• University of Central Florida — Orlando
• University of Cincinnati — Cincinnati
• University of Kentucky — Lexington
• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Knoxville
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Worcester

• 111-120

• DePaul University — Chicago
• Florida International University — Miami
• Georgia State University — Atlanta
• Portland State University — Portland
• Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) — Rochester
• University of Louisville — Louisville
• University of Nebraska - Lincoln — Lincoln
• University of New Hampshire — Durham
• University of North Texas — Denton
• University of Oregon — Eugene
• University of San Francisco — San Francisco
• University of South Carolina — Columbia

• 121-130

• Fordham University — New York City
• Loyola University Chicago — Chicago
• San Francisco State University — San Francisco
• Seattle University — Seattle
• Southern Methodist University — Dallas
• University of Missouri, Columbia — Columbia
• University of Vermont — Burlington
• Wayne State University — Detroit

• 131-140

• American University — Washington DC.
• Bentley University — Waltham
• Clemson University — Clemson
• Colorado State University, Fort Collins
• Loyola Marymount University — Los Angeles
• Pepperdine University — Malibu
• The University of Alabama — Tuscaloosa
• University of Denver — Denver
• University of Rhode Island Kingston
• Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond
• West Virginia University — Morgantown

• 141-150

• Clark University — Worcester
• Clarkson University — Potsdam
• Michigan Technological University — Houghton
• Rowan University — Glassboro
• San Jose State University — San Jose
• Saint Louis University
• The University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham
• University of Colorado, Denver — Denver
• University of Nevada - Reno — Reno

• 151-160

• CUNY Baruch College — New York City
• CUNY Hunter College — New York City
• Hofstra University — New York City
• Kansas State University — Manhattan
• Missouri University of Science and Technology — Rolla
• Oklahoma State University — Stillwater
• Suffolk University — Boston
• The University of Missouri, Kansas City — Kansas City
• The University of North Carolina at Charlotte — Charlotte
• Villanova University — Villanova

• 161-170

• Andrews University — Berrien Springs
• Auburn University — Auburn
• Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis — Indianapolis
• Ohio University — Athens
• Pace University-New York — New York City
• Rutgers University-Camden — Camden
• Simmons University — Boston
• St. John’s University: New York City — New York City
• University of San Diego — San Diego
• Yeshiva University — New York City

• 171-180

• Chapman University — Orange
• Dominican University of California — San Rafael
• Elon University — Elon
• Loyola University Maryland — Baltimore
• Northern Arizona University — Flagstaff
• Nova Southeastern University — Fort Lauderdale
• University of Memphis — Memphis
• The University of North Carolina at Greensboro — Greensboro
• Valparaiso University — Valparaiso
• Washington State University — Pullman

• 181-190

• Georgia Southern University — Statesboro
• James Madison University — Harrisonburg
• Miami University, Oxford
• Rollins College — Winter Park
• Texas Christian University — Fort Worth
• Texas Tech University — Lubbock
• The College of New Jersey — Ewing Township
• University of Dayton — Dayton
• University of Hartford — West Hartford
• University of Idaho — Moscow

• 191-200

• Brigham Young University — Provo
• CUNY Queens College — New York City
• California Lutheran University — Thousand Oaks
• California State University - Fullerton — Fullerton
• Iowa State University — Ames
• Kent State University — Kent
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology — Socorro
• New York Institute of Technology — New York City
• Stetson University — United States
• The University of Massachusetts Lowell — Lowell
• University of Mississippi — Oxford
• University of Scranton — Scranton
• The University of Texas at San Antonio — San Antonio
• University of Wisconsin Milwaukee — Milwaukee

• 201-250

• Ball State University — Muncie
• Boise State University — Boise
• Butler University — Indianapolis
• CUNY The City College of New York — New York City
• California State Polytechnic University - Pomona — Pomona
• California State University - Los Angeles — Los Angeles
• The Catholic University of America — Washington DC.
• Chaminade University of Honolulu — Honolulu
• CUNY College of Staten Island — Staten Island
• Creighton University — Omaha
• Dominican University — River Forest
• East Carolina University — Greenville
• Fairfield University — Fairfield
• Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton — Boca Raton
• Hawaii Pacific University — Honolulu
• Immaculata University — Immaculata
• Ithaca College — Ithaca
• La Salle University — Philadelphia
• Louisiana State University — Baton Rouge
• Marquette University — Milwaukee
• Marymount University — Arlington
• Mississippi State University — Starkville
• Montana State University — Bozeman
• North Dakota State University — Fargo
• Northern Illinois University — DeKalb
• Old Dominion University — Norfolk
• Rider University — Lawrenceville
• Roosevelt University
• The State University of New York at Geneseo — Geneseo
• SUNY New Paltz
• Seattle Pacific University — Seattle
• Sonoma State University — Rohnert Park
• SUNY Oswego — Oswego
• Texas State University, — San Marcos
• University of Alaska Anchorage — Anchorage
• University of Alaska Fairbanks — Fairbanks
• University of Bridgeport — Bridgeport
• The University of Maine — Orono
• University of Michigan-Dearborn — Dearborn
• University of Missouri Saint Louis — St. Louis
• The University of Nevada - Las Vegas — Las Vegas
• University of Redlands — Redlands
• University of St Thomas — St Paul
• The University of St. Thomas - Houston — Houston
• University of Toledo — Toledo
• University of Tulsa — Tulsa
• University of Wyoming — Laramie
• Western Illinois University — Macomb
• Western Washington University — Bellingham
• William Paterson University of New Jersey — Wayne

• 251-300

• Adelphi University — Garden City
• Alfred University
• Appalachian State University (ASU) — Boone
• Augsburg University
• Bryant University — Smithfield
• CUNY Lehman College — New York City
• California State University, San Marcos College
• California State University Northridge Los Angeles
• California State University Sacramento
• California State University - Long Beach
• California State University - San Bernardino
• Campbell University
• College of Charleston
• Gonzaga University — Spokane
• Illinois State University Normal
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana
• Manhattan College — New York City
• Morgan State University — Baltimore
• Northeastern Illinois University
• Notre Dame of Maryland University — Baltimore
• Oakland University — Rochester
• Pacific Lutheran University — Tahoma
• Providence College — Providence
• Regis University — Denver
• SUNY Brockport Brockport
• The State University of New York at Fredonia — Fredonia
• SUNY Oneonta — Oneonta
• Saint Mary’s College of California — Moraga
• Saint Peter’s University
• South Dakota State University — Brookings
• St. Edward’s University — Austin
• University of Arkansas Fayetteville — Fayetteville
• University of Evansville — Evansville
• University of Illinois, Springfield (UIS) — Springfield
• University of La Verne — La Verne
• University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
• University of New Haven — New Haven
• University of North Florida — Jacksonville
• University of North Georgia
• University of Portland Portland
• University of South Alabama (USA) — Mobile
• University of South Dakota — Vermillion
• University of Texas Arlington — Arlington
• The University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire — Eau Claire
• Western Connecticut State University
• Western Michigan University — Kalamazoo
• Wilkes University

• 301-350

• Buffalo State College (SUNY)
• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis — Obispo
• California State University - Stanislaus
• California State University Dominguez Hills — Carson
• Carthage College
• Central Michigan University — Mount Pleasant
• Chestnut Hill College — Philadelphia
• Christian Brothers University
• Delaware State University
• Duquesne University — Pittsburgh
• Eastern University
• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University — Tallahassee
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Frostburg State University
• Hamline University — Saint Paul
• Hampton University — Hampton
• Jacksonville University
• John Carroll University — University Heights
• King’s College — Wilkes-Barre
• Lamar University
• Lawrence Technological University — Southfield
• Lynn University
• Madonna University — Livonia
• Manhattanville College — Purchase
• Marist College — Poughkeepsie
• Mercer University — Macon
• Mount St Mary’s College — New York City
• Nazareth College — Rochester
• Niagara University
• Our Lady of the Lake University, — San Antonio
• Radford University
• SUNY Cortland Cortland
• SUNY Plattsburgh
• SUNY Potsdam
• Salisbury University
• Sam Houston State University
• Shenandoah University — Winchester
• Towson University — Towson
• Truman State University — Kirksville
• University of Guam
• University of Michigan-Flint — Flint
• University of Montana Missoula — Missoula
• University of Nebraska - Omaha
• University of North Carolina Wilmington — Wilmington
• University of North Dakota — Grand Forks
• The University of Tampa — Tampa
• University of the Incarnate Word
• Utah State University — Logan
• Waynesburg University — Waynesburg
• Wichita State University — Wichita
• Xavier University of Louisiana — New Orleans

— METHODOLOGY —

QS evaluated the US universities according to the following 17 metrics. They fall into four broad groupings (Employability, Diversity & Internationalisation, Learning Experience, and Research).

• Employability (24.5%)

• This category looks at the employment prospects of students graduating from US higher education institutions through metrics that include the results of the Employer Reputation Survey, Alumni outcomes, and salary post-graduation.

• Employer reputation (10%)

• QS Employer Reputation metric is based on almost 45,000 responses to the QS Employer Survey and asks employers to identify those institutions from which they source the most competent, innovative, effective graduates. The QS Employer Survey is also the world’s largest of its kind.

• Alumni outcomes (10%)

• QS has been recording the educational background of over 30,000 highly influential employers, sector leaders, and award-winning professionals, as well as individuals.

• Salary after ten years (4.5%)

• This indicator looks at the average salary of graduates (who received federal financial aid) ten years after first entering university.

• Diversity & Internationalisation (25%)

• This broad category attempts to understand to what extent a higher education institution is striving towards being as inclusive as possible while promoting an environment that seeks to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 10: Reduced Inequality.

• Gender pay gap (2.5%)

• One of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to achieve Gender Equality through female equality in the workplace and eradicating unfair practices targeting women.

• Faculty gender diversity (2.5%)

• This indicator is also used against the backdrop of the UN’s SDG to achieve Gender Equality. It aims to capture whether there is equal representation of both male and female employees within the faculty of a higher education institution. Institutions that are moving towards an equivalent model are demonstrating their commitment to progress towards achieving Gender Equality.

• The ratio of undergraduate students receiving Pell grants (5%)

• This indicator focuses on the percentage of enrolled undergraduate students that got a Pell Grant. The Pell Grant program provides grant assistance to eligible undergraduate postsecondary students with demonstrated financial needs to help meet higher education expenses.

• Students’ ethnicity mix (5%)

• The student fabric of a higher education institution is an important indicator that reflects its openness and attention to nurture a diverse, culturally sensitive, and tolerant student cohort. An institution with a diverse student ethnic mix demonstrates that it cultivates inclusiveness and promotes social mobility while offering its students a diverse student learning experience crucial in today’s global world.

• Number of Fulbright recipients per institution (5%)

• This indicator looks at which US institutions are top producers of US Fulbright students over a combined period of 3 years. The Fulbright Programme is the US government’s flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Programme has provided more than 390,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

• The proportion of international students (5%)

• A highly international university acquires and confers several advantages. It demonstrates an ability to attract students from across the world, suggesting that it possesses a solid global brand.

• Learning experience (22%)

• This category aims to reflect the overall learning environment provided by a higher education institution to its students through the level of support it offers all its students regardless of background.

• Average instructional expenditure per FTE (full-time equivalency) student (10%)

• Average teaching spending per FTE (full-time equivalency) student demonstrates how many financial resources a higher education institution spends on average teaching per student. This indicator is used as a proxy to determine how strongly an institution is committed to offering the most effective learning environment possible.

• Retention rate (5%)

• It is a measure of the rate at which students persist in their educational program at an institution, expressed as a percentage. That is the percentage of the first-time bachelor (or equivalent) degree-seeking undergraduates from the previous fall who are again enrolled in the current fall for four-year institutions. For all other institutions, this is the percentage of first-time degree/certificate-seeking students from the previous fall who either re-enrolled or completed their program by the current fall.

• Pell grant student graduation rates compared with other students (3.5%)

• This indicator focuses on how well an institution supports students in financial need awarded a Pell grant. The number of grant recipients graduating within 150% of standard time to program completion, compared to the average graduation rate for students that did not receive a Pell grant or Stafford loan.

• Student-faculty ratio (3.5%)

• Students’ teaching quality is typically cited as the highest importance metric when comparing institutions. It isn’t easy to measure, but QS says it has determined that measuring student/faculty ratios is the most effective proxy metric currently available. This indicator assesses the extent to which institutions can provide undergraduate students with meaningful access to faculty members and recognizes that a high number of faculty members per undergraduate student will reduce the teaching burden on each academic.

• Research (28.5%)

• This category demonstrates how the Research of a higher education institution is having an impact. It focuses on the quality of the Research, regardless of the size of an institution. How much open and internationally collaborative its research outputs are, whether within academia or with industry.

• Academic Reputation (13.5%)

• Academic reputation is measured using a global survey. Scholars identify the institutions where they believe the best work is currently taking place within their field of expertise. The survey collates the expert opinions of over 94,000 individuals in the higher education space. It has grown to become the world’s largest survey of academic thought in terms of size and scope and is an unparalleled means of measuring sentiment in the academic community.

• Citations per paper (7%)

• Citations per paper focus on the performance of the documents an institution produces that get indexed in Scopus. It assesses the number of citations per Research Paper published, aiming to explain the impact each institution’s research has within the research community.

• International Research Network (IRN) (5%)

• This indicator assesses the degree of international Diversity in research collaboration for each evaluated institution. The Margalef Index, widely used in environmental sciences, has been adapted to estimate the richness of the selected international research partners for a given institution.

• Partnerships with Employers per Faculty (3%)

• This indicator uses Elsevier’s Scopus database to establish which universities collaborate successfully with global companies to produce citable, transformative research. This year’s ranking accounts for university collaborations with 2,000 top global companies listed by Fortune and Forbes. The figure is adjusted to account for the number of faculty at each university.

Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds

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May 1, 2021

United Way Worldwide Announces Launch of India COVID-19 Relief Fund

Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.

Photo: Brian Gallagher, President and CEO of United Way Worldwide (center) with Student United Way Award Winners (L-R): Alicia Meyer, Campus Adviser of the Year, Montana State University; Krystal Draper, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Hoa Bui, President of Student United Way at the University of California Riverside; Caasi Algazi, Founder of Student United Way at the University of California Riverside; and Elizabeth Collins, Student Leader of the Year, Montana State University. United Way Community Leaders Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. May 2, 2012.

Students on more than 60 campuses across the United States are improving their local communities. This powerful force is known as Student United Way, the student voice of the worldwide United Way movement. Image Credit: Neil Parekh. [File Photo]

ALEXANDRIA, VA., May 01, 2021 — United Way Worldwide today announced that it had established a relief fund for United Way India to provide immediate assistance in containing the coronavirus and responding to the unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The India COVID-19 Relief Fund will provide immediate help in medical equipment for hospitals, including oxygen supplies, ventilators, beds, Bipap Machines, and more. The Fund will also supply hygiene and food kits for communities to prevent further spread of the virus.

As India experiences the world’s worst outbreak, United Way India will distribute donations from the Fund to support the most acutely impacted in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi NCR, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, and Bihar.

Just this week, India reported the most significant single-day spike of new COVID-19 cases at 379,000 and more than 200,000 deaths, 3,000 occurring in the past 24 hours alone. These numbers have overwhelmed the healthcare system, particularly in highly populated cities, devastating the most vulnerable population.

“The resurgence of the COVID-19 virus and the devastating impact on India’s healthcare system highlights that the fight against the pandemic is far from over and shows how vulnerable communities are still at risk,” said Neeraj Mehta, Interim President and CEO, United Way Worldwide. “I am heartened by the work of the United Way India network and am confident that we can provide much-needed critical support to alleviate the suffering of marginalized populations.”

Over the past year, the United Way India network of seven local United Ways has supported more than five million people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and provided infrastructure enhancement to more than 100 hospitals. The United Way India network has raised and distributed $60 million in relief funds to more than 60 cities throughout India.

Through the work of 100,000 volunteers, United Way has distributed over 291,951 food kits and served more than 555,886 hot meals. Additionally, the United Way India network has provided 146 hospitals with infrastructure reinforcements, including additional beds, oxygen concentrators, ventilators, and medical supplies. It has also distributed 804,154 N-95 & 3-Ply masks and 346,104 personal protection equipment (PPE) kits.

Response efforts are led locally by United Ways in the cities of Baroda, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Kolkata.

United Way said it fights for every person’s health, education, and financial stability in every community.”With global reach and local impact, we’re making life better for 48 million people annually. United Way is the world’s largest privately-funded nonprofit, working in 95% of U.S. communities and 40 countries and territories. That’s why we’re the mission of choice for 2.5 million volunteers, 7.7 million donors, and 45,000 corporate partners. In the wake of COVID-19, we’re helping people stay in their homes, stock their pantries, and protect their lives and livelihoods. And we’re working to build resilient, equitable communities,” United Way elaborated.

Source: United Way Worldwide

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April 30, 2021

World Intellectual Property Day 2021 - "IP and SMEs: Taking Your Ideas to Market"

Geneva, April 29, 2021 — Small and medium-sized enterprises take center stage at this year’s celebration of World Intellectual Property Day. WIPO Director General Daren Tang described them as the “unsung heroes” of the global economy and an engine for growth in a post-pandemic world.

In a video message celebrating World IP Day, which occurs each April 26, Mr. Tang said that SMEs account for 90% of all companies worldwide and 70% of global employment. That’s why World IP Day 2021 is carrying the theme “IP and SMEs: Taking your ideas to market.”

“SMEs are the engines, the unsung heroes of our economy. And yet for many of them, there is still a lack of knowledge about how IP can help them translate their ideas into products, and how IP can be a powerful tool for them not just to survive, but also to compete and grow,” he said.

“SMEs face different challenges in different parts of the world, and how we help them will need to be customized to the needs of your part of the world. But it will be a powerful message for us to send the signal that together we will be supporting them,” said Mr. Tang.

Mr. Tang, who took office as WIPO’s Director-General in October 2020, has made supporting smaller enterprises a priority. In one of his first actions as Director-General, he established the “IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector” as one of the Organization’s eight sectors, with a remit to support SMEs, entrepreneurs, and researchers in commercializing IP and using it for business growth.

“Whatever help we can render to our SMEs will help that we render to the bedrock of your economy and the backbone of the global economy. Ultimately, it will help our world to build back better,” after the COVID-19 pandemic, he said.

WIPO is coordinating a global campaign to highlight the importance of intangible assets to SMEs and the value of IP in supporting SMEs to grow. The Organization has published a series of case studies worldwide telling stories of SMEs that are using IP rights to turn ideas into business opportunities and generate value. WIPO has also provided a wealth of practical information on the best ways for SMEs to protect their intangible assets.

In 2000, WIPO’s member states designated April 26 - the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970 - as World Intellectual Property Day to increase general understanding of intellectual property (IP). Since then, World IP Day has offered a unique opportunity each year to join with others worldwide to consider how IP contributes to the flourishing of music and the arts and to driving the technological innovation that helps shape our world.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property policy, services, information, and cooperation. A specialized agency of the United Nations, WIPO assists its 193 member states in developing a balanced international IP legal framework to meet society’s evolving needs. It provides business services for obtaining IP rights in multiple countries and resolving disputes. It delivers capacity-building programs to help developing countries benefit from using IP. And it offers free access to unique knowledge banks of IP information.

Source: WIPO, Geneva

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(The Editor is an Alumnus of the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy (WIPO Academy), Geneva, Switzerland.)

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April 29, 2021

Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces 26 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.

• $5.2 million in philanthropic support for significant scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities

New York, NY, April 28, 2021 — To apply scholarly perspectives to some of society’s most important issues, Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The philanthropic foundation will grant each fellow $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address critical and enduring issues confronting our society.

The Corporation launched the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program in 2015 as an initiative conceived by the late Vartan Gregorian, who was president of the foundation since 1997. Gregorian, a former professor of history and past president of Brown University, aimed to advance and elevate the fellows’ work to reinforce the importance of the social sciences and humanities in academia and American life.

The most generous stipend of its kind, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has funded a total of 216 scholars, journalists, and authors, representing an investment of $43.2 million. It focuses on subjects such as U.S. democracy, the environment, technological and cultural evolution, and international relations. The criteria prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar’s plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience.

Among this year’s winning research topics:

• Law enforcement: developing tools to analyze policing data, including large volumes of body-worn camera video, to monitor racial bias and suggest evidence-based reforms.

• Pandemic recovery: studying the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable families and women in the workforce to identify policies that will help rebuild a more just society.

• Voting access: analyzing strategies to modernize the U.S. electoral system, including mail voting, same-day registration, and calls for a National Accessible Election law.

• Racial justice: telling the story of mid-19th-century Black New Yorkers who campaigned to desegregate public transit with pioneering civil disobedience strategies.

• Rural opportunity: exploring the history of agricultural property law and the views of American farmers to develop a more inclusive and sustainable land ownership system.

• “Me Too” movement: documenting the cultural history of the campaign and social media’s ability to expose offenders and hold them accountable.

• Immigration: exploring the immigration detention system and its multiple, unseen sites within and outside U.S. borders to understand policies and their impact on migrants.

• Climate-change: developing inclusive approaches to climate policy by gathering indigenous knowledge.

Georgetown’s DeGioia, who has been a member of the jury since the start of the program, replaced the founding chair, Susan Hockfield, professor of neuroscience and president emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council, stepped down after three years of service on the fellows’ jury when she joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy director for science and society. Today, the jury comprises 14 distinguished scholars and academic and intellectual leaders from some of the USA’s most prominent educational institutions, foundations, and scholarly societies.

Carnegie Corporation selected this year’s class of 26 fellows from 311 nominations. The group comprises 18 women and eight men. The program seeks to include emerging and established scholars from across the country and represents public institutions of higher education and private colleges or universities.

As part of the nomination process, 700 individuals — including heads of independent research institutes, societies, and think tanks; university presidents; directors of major university presses; and editors of leading newspapers and magazines — were invited to recommend up to two individuals. All proposals undergo a preliminary, anonymous evaluation by leading authorities in the relevant fields. The top recommendations are then forwarded to the jury for a final review and selection.

The award is for up to two years, and its expected result is a book or major study.

• Class of 2021

• Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat: Barnard College, Columbia University
• Beth Bailey: University of Kansas
• Richard Bell: University of Maryland, College Park
• Deborah A. Boehm: University of Nevada, Reno
• Kristina Maria Guild Douglass: The Pennsylvania State University
• Tanisha M. Fazal: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Christine Folch: Duke University
• Shana Kushner Gadarian: Syracuse University
• Kali Nicole Gross: Emory University
• Françoise N. Hamlin: Brown University
• Adria L. Imada: University of California, Irvine
• Jeanne-Marie Jackson: Johns Hopkins University
• Dean Knox: University of Pennsylvania
• Daniel Laurison: Swarthmore College
• Sonali Shukla McDermid: New York University
• Léonce Ndikumana: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Jessica A. Shoemaker: University of Nebraska College of Law
• Stefanie Stantcheva: Harvard University
• Susan C. Stokes: University of Chicago
• Neel U. Sukhatme: Georgetown University Law Center
• Kevin J. A. Thomas: The University of Texas at Austin
• Salamishah Tillet: Rutgers University-Newark
• Caroline Tolbert: University of Iowa
• Jessica Wilkerson: West Virginia University
• Gillen D’Arcy Wood: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Gabriel Zucman: University of California, Berkeley

• Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Jurors

• John J. DeGioia: President, Georgetown University (Chair)
• Joseph E. Aoun: President, Northeastern University
• Jared L. Cohon: President Emeritus and University Professor of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Robbert Dijkgraaf: Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
• Jonathan F. Fanton: President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Amy Gutmann: President, University of Pennsylvania
• Rush D. Holt: CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Alberto Ibargüen: President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
• Ira Katznelson: Interim Provost and Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
• Arthur Levine: President Emeritus, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• Earl Lewis: Founding Director, Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan; Former President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Marcia McNutt: President, National Academy of Sciences
• Louise Richardson: Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
• Pauline Yu: President Emerita, American Council of Learned Societies

Carnegie Corporation of New York was established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation’s work focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered to be of paramount importance: education, international peace, and a strong democracy.

Source: Carnegie Corporation of New York

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April 28, 2021

International Leadership Association Announces Its 2021-2022 Fellows

Photo: Responsive and Responsible Leadership. Brian T. Moynihan, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America Corporation, USA, speaking during the session: Responsive and Responsible Leadership at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017. Image provided by & Copyright © World Economic Forum / Greg Beadle. [File Photo]

SILVER SPRING, Md., April 27, 2021 — The International Leadership Association (ILA) work is made possible by the power of its members’ curiosity, creativity, and desire to make an impact. Each year, it recognizes a select group of expert members who desire to give back to the field of leadership as ILA Fellows.

Fellows engage with ILA’s mission across sectors and disciplines to do worthy work at the intersection of leadership research and practice. They contribute to special initiatives that help drive the ILA’s mission to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a better world.

This year’s Fellows include the new Fellow roles of Executive in Residence and Scholar in Residence

ILA Executive in Residence

• John Heiser is a transformational, global, and relational executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience in multimillion-dollar pharmaceutical, technology, and manufacturing organizations.

ILA Scholar in Residence

• Gill Robinson Hickman is Professor Emerita of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, one of the first institutions with a multidisciplinary faculty devoted to the study of leadership.

ILA Fellows

ILA’s 2021-2022 Fellows include thought leaders from around the world. Together they will share their knowledge and expertise, explore today’s challenges in dialogue with other leaders, and apply their practical wisdom to inform and inspire. They are:

• Scott J. Allen, Standard Products—Dr. James S. Reid Chair in Management, John Carroll University
• Keith Grint, Professor Emeritus, Warwick University
• Maureen Metcalf, Founder, CEO, & Board Chair, Innovative Leadership Institute
• Stella Nkomo, Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Pretoria
• Erwin Schwella, Dean, School of Social Innovation, Hugenote Kollege
• Katherine Tyler Scott, Principle, Ki ThoughtBridge

Maureen Metcalf, returning for another term as an ILA Fellow, will continue her partnership with ILA to produce a series of 12+ podcasts on global leadership, part of her weekly Innovating Leadership show. The ILA adds another podcaster to its Fellows group with Scott Allen, the host of Phronesis: Practical Wisdom for Leadership. Scott will work with ILA to produce weekly episodes of Phronesis under the banner of “ILA’s official podcast.” Scott shared his excitement for the partnership, writing: “ILA has played a central role in my growth and development as a leadership educator and scholar. I have moderated the listserv, chaired a member community, and served on the board. As an ILA Fellow, I’ll have the opportunity to engage in a new and exciting way! I am thrilled to partner with ILA to bring inspirational and thought-provoking content to people all over the globe.”

ILA Fellows, Keith Grint, Stella Nkomo, Erwin Schwella, and Katherine Tyler Scott will share their insights via blogs looking at the challenges of today through a leadership lens. Grint, Schwella, and Tyler Scott are experienced bloggers, having contributed several pieces to ILA’s blog in 2020 including, “Leadership in Times of Crisis,” “The Fire Next Time,” and “The Global Pandemic: A Trigger for Deeply Systemic Disruptive Social Innovation? Or an Inevitable Global Apocalypse?” Echoing other fellows, Katherine affirmed that “ILA has been instrumental in my professional development, leadership, and service as a scholar-practitioner. I have been privileged to serve as Chair of Leadership Development, Conference Weaver, Vice-Chair and Chair of the ILA Board.” She added, “The honor of being selected as an ILA Fellow is another opportunity to contribute to this special community of learners.”

“We are thrilled to be working with this year’s group of outstanding Fellows,” noted Cynthia Cherrey, CEO & President of the ILA. “Their commitment to ILA and contributions to the field of leadership are unparalleled and will be appreciated for years to come.”

The International Leadership Association is a worldwide professional association committed to advancing leadership knowledge and practice for a better world. It accomplishes its mission by creating trusted leadership resources. The synergy that occurs by bringing people together in the charged space of its conferences and events produces a multiplier impact on leadership and change. For more than twenty years, the ILA has convened extraordinary talent across sectors, cultures, disciplines, and generations.

Source: International Leadership Association

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April 23, 2021

Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members: Announcement from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 22, 2021 — The American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced today the election of 252 new members.

The Academy was established in 1780 by the country’s founders to guide a young nation that would face challenges and need expertise and excellence to emerge stronger. While the founders did not anticipate a year with a historic pandemic, overdue racial reckoning, and political strife, the purpose of electing new members is more compelling than ever, the Academy stated.

The 2021 election provides an opportunity to recognize extraordinary people across America and worldwide who help solve the world’s most urgent challenges, create meaning through art, and contribute to the common good from every field, discipline, and profession.

“We are honoring the excellence of these individuals, celebrating what they have achieved so far, and imagining what they will continue to accomplish,” said David Oxtoby, President of the American Academy. “The past year has been replete with evidence of how things can get worse; this is an opportunity to illuminate the importance of art, ideas, knowledge, and leadership that can make a better world.”

The artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, non-profit, and private sectors elected this year include:

• Paleontologist Zeresenay Alemeseged, University of Chicago
• Economist Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
• Cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer, Washington University in St. Louis
• Biotechnology leader Tony Coles, Cerevel Therapeutics
• Civil rights lawyer and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, Columbia Law School; UCLA School of Law
• Neurosurgeon and medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, CNN and Emory University
• Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Supreme Court of Texas
• Labor leader Mary Kay Henry, SEIU
• Journalist Maria Hinojosa, Futuro Media Group and NPR
• Cinematographer and video artist Arthur Jafa
• Computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University
• Civil rights activist and math literacy pioneer Robert Moses, The Algebra Project
• Playwright, screenwriter, and actor Suzan-Lori Parks, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
• Probability theorist Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
• Composer, songwriter, and performer Robbie Robertson
• Journalist Kara Swisher, VOX Media Inc.; The New York Times
• Atmospheric scientist Anne Thompson, NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center
• Media entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, Harpo, Inc., and Oprah Winfrey Network

The International Honorary Members, from 17 countries this year, include physician and researcher Peter Carmeliet (KU Leuven, Belgium), writer Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam), and botanist Lúcia Garcez Lohmann (University of São Paulo, Brazil).

“While it is noteworthy that we continue to elect members more than 240 years after the Academy’s founding, this is about more than maintaining traditions,” said Nancy C. Andrews, Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Academy. “We recognize individuals who use their talents and their influence to confront today’s challenges, to lift our spirits through the arts, and to help shape our collective future.”

John Adams, John Hancock, and others founded the Academy. They believed the new republic should honor exceptionally accomplished individuals and engage them in advancing the public good. The Academy’s dual mission remains essentially the same today, with members from increasingly diverse fields working together to share ideas and recommendations in the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.

The new class joins Academy members elected before them, including Benjamin Franklin (elected 1781) and Alexander Hamilton (1791) in the eighteenth century; Ralph Waldo Emerson (1864), Maria Mitchell (1848), and Charles Darwin (1874) in the nineteenth; Albert Einstein (1924), Robert Frost (1931), Margaret Mead (1948), Milton Friedman (1959), Martin Luther King, Jr. (1966), and Anthony Fauci (1991) in the twentieth; and more recently Antonin Scalia (2003), Andrea Ghez (2004), Bryan Stevenson (2014), Nicholas Kristof (2017), John Legend (2017), Viet Thanh Nguyen (2018), and Anna Deavere Smith (2019).

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world. Current Academy research focuses on higher education, the humanities, and the arts; science and technology policy; global security and energy; and American institutions and the public good. The Academy’s work is advanced by its more than 5,000 elected members, who are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs from around the world.

Source: American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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April 21, 2021

Princeton Review releases its Best Value Colleges List & Rankings for 2021.

Photo: The Best 386 Colleges: 2021 Edition - The Princeton Review’s 29th Annual “Best Colleges” Guide (August 18, 2020, Penguin Random House).

NEW YORK, April 20, 2021 — The Princeton Review today reported its list of Best Value Colleges for 2021. This project, which the education services company debuted in 2004, annually names the colleges that receive the company’s highest ROI (Return on Investment) ratings.

The ratings are based on analyses that review more than 40 data points. They cover academic offerings, cost/financial aid, career placement services, graduation rates, and student debt, as well as alumni salary levels and job satisfaction.

The Best Value Colleges for 2021 received The Princeton Review’s highest ROI (Return on Investment) ratings.

Of more than 650 schools The Princeton Review surveyed for this year’s project, 209 made the overall Best Value Colleges list for 2021. The list, which is not ranked, includes nine tuition-free schools.

For this project, The Princeton Review also reports seven sub-categories of Best Value Colleges lists. These lists, which are ranked, reveal the top public and the top private schools for each category.

The University of California—Berkeley earned the #1 spot on Top 50 Public Best Value Colleges. Princeton University was #1 on the list of Top 50 Private Best Value Colleges. Both schools are standouts for their stellar academics, career services, and financial aid. The average scholarship grant the University of California—Berkeley awarded to undergrads with need last year was $23,700, bringing the cost of attendance for those students down to $7,700 from the sticker price $31,400. The average grant Princeton University awarded to undergrads with need last year was $53,500, reducing their cost of attendance to $12,300 from the sticker price of $65,800.

“The colleges that we designate as our ‘Best Values’ this year are truly a select group: they comprise only about 1.2% of the four-year undergraduate institutions in the U.S.,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review. “These exceptional schools differ in many ways, yet they are alike in that all offer outstanding academics and excellent career services. As important to today’s college applicants and their parents: These colleges have a comparatively low sticker price and generous financial aid offerings. We recommend and commend them highly for everything their administrators, faculties, staff, and alumni are doing to educate their students and to guide them to post-college success.”

• Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Public Schools)

1. University of California—Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
2. University of Virginia — Charlottesville, VA
3. Georgia Institute of Technology — Atlanta, GA
4. University of California—San Diego — La Jolla, CA
5. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC
6. University of California—Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA
7. University of California—Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara, CA
8. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI
9. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX
10. University of Florida — Gainesville, FL
11. Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL
12. William & Mary — Williamsburg, VA
13. North Carolina State University — Raleigh, NC
14. Texas A&M University—College Station — College Station, TX
15. City University of New York—Baruch College — New York, NY
16. University of California—Davis — Davis, CA
17. Purdue University, West-Lafayette — West Lafayette, IN
18. University of Washington — Seattle, WA
19. State University of New York - Binghamton University — Binghamton, NY
20. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL
21. Missouri University of Science and Technology — Rolla, MO
22. State University of New York - Stony Brook University — Stony Brook, NY
23. Virginia Tech — Blacksburg, VA
24. University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI
25. University of California—Riverside — Riverside, CA
26. University of Georgia — Athens, GA
27. New College of Florida — Sarasota, FL
28. University of California—Santa Cruz — Santa Cruz, CA
29. Truman State University — Kirksville, MO
30. Michigan Technological University — Houghton, MI
31. University of Minnesota—Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN
32. Clemson University — Clemson, SC
33. The Ohio State University, Columbus — Columbus, OH
34. City University of New York—Hunter College — New York, NY
35. City University of New York—Brooklyn College — Brooklyn, NY
36. The University of Utah — Salt Lake City, UT
37. Miami University. — Oxford, OH
38. San Diego State University — San Diego, CA
39. New Jersey Institute of Technology — Newark, NJ
40. The University of Texas at Dallas — Richardson, TX
41. The University of South Florida — Tampa, FL
42. University of Massachusetts-Amherst — Amherst, MA
43. California State University, Long Beach — Long Beach, CA
44. University of Houston — Houston, TX
45. Penn State University Park — University Park, PA
46. University of Central Florida — Orlando, FL
47. The College of New Jersey — Ewing, NJ
48. University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT
49. University of Colorado—Boulder — Boulder, CO
50. University of Oklahoma — Norman, OK

• Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Private Schools)

1. Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
3. Stanford University — Stanford, CA
4. California Institute of Technology — Pasadena, CA
5. Harvey Mudd College — Claremont, CA
6. Harvard College — Cambridge, MA
7. Yale University — New Haven, CT
8. Williams College — Williamstown, MA
9. Dartmouth College — Hanover, NH
10. Rice University — Houston, TX
11. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art — New York, NY
12. Duke University — Durham, NC
13. Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN
14. Claremont McKenna College — Claremont, CA
15. Pomona College — Claremont, CA
16. Columbia University — New York, NY
17. Amherst College — Amherst, MA
18. University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA
19. Brown University — Providence, RI
20. Haverford College — Haverford, PA
21. Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
22. Swarthmore College — Swarthmore, PA
23. Brigham Young University (U.T.) — Provo, UT
24. Bowdoin College — Brunswick, ME
25. The University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
26. Carleton College — Northfield, MN
27. Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, MD
28. Wabash College — Crawfordsville, IN
29. St. John’s College (M.D.) — Annapolis, MD
30. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology — Terre Haute, IN
31. Colgate University — Hamilton, NY
32. Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA
33. Emory University — Atlanta, GA
34. Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA
35. Middlebury College — Middlebury, VT
36. Wellesley College — Wellesley, MA
37. Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Worcester, MA
38. Grinnell College — Grinnell, IA
39. Washington University in St. Louis — St. Louis, MO
40. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN
41. Hamilton College — Clinton, NY
42. Vassar College — Poughkeepsie, NY
43. Lafayette College — Easton, PA
44. Union College (N.Y.) — Schenectady, NY
45. Babson College — Babson Park, MA
46. Wesleyan University — Middletown, CT
47. Rhodes College — Memphis, TN
48. Smith College — Northampton, MA
49. Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland, OH
50. Tufts University — Medford, MA

The Princeton Review is a leading tutoring, test prep, and college admission services company. It helps college and graduate-school-bound students achieve their education and career goals through online and in-person courses every year. A network delivers these courses of more than 4,000 teachers and tutors, online resources, and 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House. The Princeton Review further explains that its Tutor.com brand is the largest online tutoring service in the U.S. It comprises a community of tutors who have delivered more than 20 million one-to-one tutoring sessions. The Princeton Review (not affiliated with Princeton University) has its headquarters in New York, NY.

Source: The Princeton Review

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April 19, 2021

Oxford University launches Human Challenge Trial to study immune response to COVID-19.

Oxford, April 19, 2021 — Though the COVID-19 pandemic has been active for a year, it is unknown what happens when people who have already had COVID-19 get infected for a second time.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have launched a human challenge trial to look at what kind of immune response can stop people from becoming re-infected. They also want to see how the immune system reacts the second time around. A human challenge trial in medical research is a carefully controlled study that involves purposefully infecting a subject with a pathogen or bug to study the effects of that infection.

The study will take place in two phases with different participants in each stage. The first phase, which will start in April 2021, will establish the lowest dose of virus in approximately 50% of previously naturally infected people and can take hold and start replicating but produce little or no symptoms. In the second phase of the study, expected to begin in summer 2021, all participants will be infected with the standardized dose of the virus, which was established in phase one.

For phase one, up to 64 healthy participants between the ages of 18 - 30 who previously got naturally infected with COVID-19 will be re-exposed to the virus in carefully controlled conditions. The virus used in the study will be the original strain from Wuhan, China. The participants will be quarantined in a specially designed hospital suite for a minimum of 17 days under the care of the research team. They will undergo numerous medical tests, including CT scans of the lungs and MRI scans of the heart. The team would minimize the risks to participants by ensuring that those who take part are completely fit and well and have completely recovered from their first infection with COVID.

Any participants who develop any symptoms will receive medical treatment with the Regeneron monoclonal antibody. They will only be discharged from the quarantine unit when they are no longer infected and not at risk of infecting others. The entire length of the study will be 12 months, including a minimum of eight follow-up appointments after discharge. Participation in the survey is entirely voluntary.

Helen McShane, Professor of Vaccinology at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford and Chief Investigator on the study, said, ‘Challenge studies tell us things that other tasks cannot because, unlike natural infection, they are tightly controlled. When we re-infect these participants, we will know precisely how their immune system has reacted to the first COVID infection, exactly when the second infection occurs, and exactly how much virus they got. As well as enhancing our basic understanding, this may help us design tests that can accurately predict whether people are protected.

‘In phase two, we will explore two different things. First, we will define the baseline immune response in the volunteers very carefully before we infect them. We will then infect them with the dose of virus chosen from the first study and measure how much virus we can detect after infection. We will then be able to understand what kind of immune responses protect against re-infection. Second, we will measure the immune response at several time points after infection to understand the virus’s immune response.

‘A challenge study allows us to make these measurements very precisely because we know exactly when someone is infected. The information from this work will allow us to design better vaccines and treatments and understand if people are protected after having COVID and for how long.’

Wellcome Trust is funding the study. Shobana Balasingam, Vaccines Senior Research Advisor at Wellcome, said, ‘There are still many unknowns surrounding this virus and human infections studies can enable us to learn a lot about Covid-19. This study has the potential to transform our understanding by providing high-quality data on how our immune system responds to a second infection with this virus.

‘The findings could have important implications for how we handle Covid-19 in the future and inform not just vaccine development but also research into the range of effective treatments that are also urgently needed. Keeping up the pace of scientific research and development, through crucial studies such as this, remain the only way we will truly get ahead of this pandemic and bring it under control.’

Source: University of Oxford

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April 16, 2021

NASA Announces Winners of 2021 Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC).

Photo: A family of Osprey outside the NASA Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, May 13, 2010. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls).

Photo: Mars 2020 Strategic Mission Manager Pauline Hwang gives remarks during a NASA Perseverance rover initial surface checkout briefing, Friday, February 19, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California. The Perseverance Mars rover landed on Mars Thursday, February 18, 2021. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls).

Photo: The Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter after its release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm completing a 93-day cargo mission at the International Space Station. Image Credit: (NASA Johnson).

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 16, 2021 — High school and college students from around the U.S. and world have spent the last eight months designing, building, and testing their creations for NASA’s 27th annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge - one of seven NASA Artemis Student Challenges. The winners were announced during a virtual awards ceremony on April 16.

The Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) tasks the U.S. and international student teams to design, engineer, and test a human-powered rover on a course that simulates the terrain found on rocky bodies in the solar system. The groups also must perform mission tasks while negotiating the course, including sample retrievals and spectrographic analysis.

Despite the cancellation of on-site competition activities at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the high school and college teams competed in multiple designs, documentation, and presentation categories, and were recognized for their successful efforts.

“The challenges you faced with this competition go beyond anything we’ve seen before, from designing the wheels and mission tools to executing mission requirements like sample retrievals and deploying instruments,” said Marshall Center Director Jody Singer. “To all of the students who took on these tasks and participated in Rover Challenge, we salute you and congratulate you on your accomplishments.”

“The students had to think outside the box to figure out how to develop these robust vehicles during a global pandemic,” said Miranda Fike, activity lead for the challenge at Marshall. “These members of the Artemis Generation rose to the occasion and delivered their reviews, presentations, designs, and videos without fail.”

NASA presented Awards in nine categories:

• Overall Winner

• High School Division:

• 1st place: Parish Episcopal School Team 1, Dallas, Texas.

• 2nd place: Stillwater Area High School, Stillwater, Minnesota.

• 3rd place: Navonmesh Prasar Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

• College/University Division:

• 1st place: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Columbia.

• 2nd place: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Xochitepec, Mexico.

• 3rd place: the University of Alabama in Huntsville Team 1.

• Project Review Award

• High School Division: Parish Episcopal School Team 1.

• College/University Division: Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.

• Task Challenge Award

• High School Division: Liceo Cientifico Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro, Salcedo, Dominican Republic.

• College/University Division: Trine University, Angola, Indiana.

• Safety Award

• High School Division: Academy of Arts, Careers, & Technology, Reno, Nevada.

• College/University Division: Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

• Ingenuity Award

• High School Division: Stillwater Area High School.

• College/University Division: Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.

• Phoenix Award

• High School Division: Academy of Arts, Careers, & Technology.

• College/University Division: KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

• Videography Award

• High School Division: Navonmesh Prasar Foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

• College Division: Universidad Catolica Boliviana - La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia.

• STEM Engagement Award

• High School Division: Vision Builder Adventures, Charlotte, North Carolina.

• College/University Division: Tecnológico de Monterrey.

• Social Media Award

• High School Division: Parish Episcopal School Team 2, Dallas, Texas.

• College/University Division: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

For more than 25 years, the annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge and its sponsors have encouraged student teams from the United States and around the world to push the limits of innovation and imagine what it will take to explore the Moon, Mars, and other planets.

The Office of STEM Engagement manages Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. The competition reflects the goals of the Artemis program, which seeks to put the first woman and first person of color on the Moon. NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement uses challenges and competitions to further the agency’s goal of encouraging students to pursue degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

SOURCE: NASA

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April 8, 2021

United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi, announces Fulbright Fellowships for Indian citizens for the academic year 2022-2023.

Photo: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Stephen E. Biegun, meets with Fulbright Alumni in New Delhi, India, on October 13, 2020. (State Department photo). [File Photo]

New Delhi, April 7, 2021 — United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi, has announced Fulbright Fellowships for Indian citizens for the academic year 2022-2023 in the following categories:

• Student awards to pursue a master’s degree or attend a U.S. university as a visiting student researcher.

• Scholars and teacher awards for academics, teachers, and professionals to teach or conduct research in the U.S.

• Professional development programs for university administrators to develop leadership and specialized skills.

“Selection committees would look to identify talented individuals whose projects are relevant to India and the United States. The committees would seek candidates who demonstrate the potential to be effective cultural ambassadors,” USIEF said.

• 2022-2023 Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships:

• The Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships are designed for outstanding Indians to pursue a master’s degree program at select U.S. colleges and universities in the areas of Arts and Culture Management including Heritage Conservation and Museum Studies; Economics; Environmental Science/Studies; Higher Education Administration; International Affairs; International Legal Studies; Journalism and Mass Communication; Public Administration; Public Health; Urban and Regional Planning; and Women’s Studies/Gender Studies.

• These fellowships are for highly motivated individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, have completed the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree, have at least three years of professional work experience, and commit to return and contribute to their communities. The fellowships are for one to two years.

• 2022-2023 Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships:

• The Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships for Indian scholars registered for a Ph.D. at an Indian institution. These fellowships are for six to nine months.

• Fellowships are available in the following fields only: Agricultural Sciences; Anthropology; Bioengineering; Chemistry; Computer Science (including, but not limited to, cybersecurity, digital economy, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics); Economics; Education Policy and Planning; Energy Studies; Geography (including GIS and Geology); History; Language and Literature; Materials Science (with emphasis on environmental applications); Mathematical Sciences; Neuroscience; Performing Arts; Physics; Political Science (including, but not limited to, International Security and Strategic Studies); Public Health; Public Policy; Sociology; Urban and Regional Planning (with emphasis on smart cities and waste management); Visual Arts; and Women’s and Gender Studies.

• 2022-2023 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships:

• The Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships aim to provide Indian faculty, researchers, and professionals the opportunity to teach, conduct research, or carry out a combination of teaching and research at a U.S. institution. Depending on the U.S. host institution, it is likely that the grantee may contribute towards developing a curriculum and conducting workshops and seminars. These fellowships are for four to nine months.

• Fellowships are available in the following fields only: Agricultural Sciences; Anthropology; Bioengineering; Chemistry; Computer Science (including, but not limited to, cybersecurity, digital economy, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics); Economics; Education Policy and Planning; Energy Studies; Geography (including GIS and Geology); History; Language and Literature; Materials Science (with emphasis on environmental applications); Mathematical Sciences; Neuroscience; Performing Arts; Physics; Political Science (including, but not limited to, International Security and Strategic Studies); Public Health; Public Policy; Sociology; Urban and Regional Planning (with emphasis on smart cities and waste management); Visual Arts; and Women’s and Gender Studies.

• 2022-2023 Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar:

• The Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar (IEAS) aims to provide Indian college and university administrators the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the U.S. higher education system.

• The two-week U.S. visit in October/November 2022 will enable participants to learn about various facets of U.S. higher education, including the types of institutions, accreditation, curriculum development, fund-raising, student services, and international education on U.S. campuses, as well as share knowledge on Indian higher education. Topics addressed during visits and meetings at select campuses and organizations will also include research collaborations, faculty and student exchanges, and study abroad.

• This seminar is for Indian college and university administrators with at least two years of international program development and management experience at their institutions in India.

• Applicants must be middle to senior-level college or university administrators —

• Such as Vice-Chancellors, Deans, Directors of International Centres, Foreign Student Advisors, and Registrars.

• They should have substantial responsibility for enhancing their institutions’ international dimension. They should be motivated to build their faculty and students’ capacity through international collaborations, exchange, and innovative curricular design.

The United States government leads the Fulbright Program in partnership with more than 160 countries worldwide. The program offers international educational and cultural exchange for passionate and accomplished students, scholars, artists, teachers, and specialists of all backgrounds to study, teach, or pursue meaningful research and professional projects.

Sources: United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi; U.S. Department of State.

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April 5, 2021

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Chintan Vaishnav appointed Director of India's Atal Innovation Mission

Photo: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Building. Image credit: Ulrick.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 5, 2021— MIT Sloan School of Management recently announced that Senior Lecturer Chintan Vaishnav was appointed to serve as mission director of India’s Atal Innovation Mission. The Mission, housed at NITI Aayog, is the Government of India’s flagship initiative to create and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Vaishnav says, “At the highest level, the work of building a culture of innovation is one of engaging creativity in the service of humankind. India is a place of limitless creative potential. I am excited for the opportunity to help harness this potential.”

Over the past six years, Vaishnav has worked and lived in rural to very rural India for a total of 18 months, researching challenges related to agriculture, water, and livelihood. His research has produced solutions such as on-farm soil nutrient management and water quality testing and purification that bring world-class science and technology to underserved communities at an affordable price. His water work has turned into an early-stage startup that enables communities to keep their water safe.

“This experience has taught me how to innovate for the developing world with rigor and relevance. I hope to bring this culture to my new position as mission director,” he says.

A member of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design founding team, Vaishnav also designed and taught a graduate-level course on Technology, Design, and Entrepreneurship for Emerging Community. The system has trained 200 graduate students from 18 different MIT departments and has guided a total of 200,000 hours of fieldwork in India, Nepal, and Africa. The work has produced 45 patents, 12 commercial licenses, and 11 startups, some of which he advises.

Vaishnav says, “This experience has taught me how to engage young minds in solving some of our most pressing challenges in a hands-on, action-oriented way. I hope to create similar engagement as mission director.”

Before MIT, Vaishnav worked at Bell Labs, designing innovative products for high-speed networks. This work led to his Ph.D. research on how regulators can balance compliance and innovation as new technologies disrupt the traditionally regulated ones in the Internet space. Since then, Vaishnav has advised the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). He has also worked with several large communications companies that are members of MIT’s Communications Futures Program.

Vaishnav holds a Master’s degree in Technology and Policy and a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from MIT. He joined the MIT Sloan faculty as a senior lecturer after finishing his Ph.D. In addition to his degrees from MIT, he holds a BA in Indian Classical Music from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, India.

“My new assignment speaks directly to MIT Sloan’s Mission of developing leaders who make a positive difference in the world. MIT Sloan has been a global leader in innovation and entrepreneurship, and this opportunity helps take this work to a nation of 1.3 billion people via the Atal Innovation Mission,” says Vaishnav, who will be on a two-year leave from MIT to serve as Mission Director.

Source: MIT Sloan School of Management

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April 4, 2021

Deakin University, Australia, announces six scholarships valued up to INR 36 million for deserving Indian students in 2021

Photo: A building at Deakin University Campus, Australia. Image credit: Kirsten Varela.

NEW DELHI, April 4, 2021 — Deakin University, Australia, has announced its Vice-Chancellor’s Meritorious Scholarship program 2021, which offers a 100% tuition fee waiver to six high-achieving Indian students for the entire duration of their studies at the university at any level.

This announcement is one of many that the university has made over the last year to support the international student community during these challenging times, including a large part of Indian students. These scholarships announced by the university are beyond a bursary of 30% to all students enrolling in the online to on-campus pathway program as the travel restrictions are prevalent due to the pandemic.

Deakin University remains committed to fostering engagement with India and ensuring the fulfillment of bright Indian students’ aspirations of an international education experience. The Vice-Chancellor’s Meritorious Scholarship Program is a part of an initiative of Deakin named ‘Changing Lives,’ which recognizes deserving students with consistently high academic performance with a potential to make a leading contribution to the university and their community back in India.

While announcing the scholarships, Professor Iain Martin, President, and Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University, emphasized the importance of international education and said, “International education, particularly in an evolving global economy, is a significant part of a student’s holistic development. The Vice-Chancellor’s Meritorious Scholarships are a wonderful opportunity for those deserving students to earn an international degree that will empower them to become a global talent and expand their horizons.”

Ms. Ravneet Pawha, Deputy Vice President (Global) and CEO (South Asia), Deakin University, said, “Deakin University has a deep history of collaboration with India across the industry, government, and research.”

Applications for the scholarship are open for students applying in July and November intake this year. The Deakin Vice-Chancellor’s Meritorious Scholarship Program selection is a rigorous process consisting of application review, referee recommendations, and interviews/presentations, including a panel interview with neutral representatives from academia and the industry.

“I think it (Vice-Chancellor’s 100% Meritorious Scholarship) is amazing not just because the tuition is paid, but I think the most interesting part of this for me was being a part of the Vice-Chancellor’s Professional Excellence Program, which empowered me to achieve beyond expectations and be ready for the careers of the future,” said Rupa Subramanian, a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Meritorious Scholar 2017 award at Deakin University.

Shristi Ostwal, CBSE national boxing champion and a recipient of the Deakin University Vice-Chancellor’s Meritorious Scholar 2020 award, shared, “I have always wanted to give back to society by providing psychological aid to underprivileged people across the globe. The Vice-Chancellor’s 100% Meritorious Scholarship allowed me to gain skills and knowledge at par with the global standards. I commenced my studies online last year due to travel restrictions, and the flexibility of online learning has allowed me to balance my passion for psychology and sports.”

Deakin University also offers other academic merit-based bursaries and scholarships for Indian students, including a 25% Merit Scholarship and a 20% Bursary for studies onshore in Australia.

Established in 1974, Deakin University is one of Australia’s leading tertiary education providers.

According to Deakin University, it is celebrating 27 years of engagement in India as it was the first international education provider to set up India’s office in 1994. It is currently the most engaged Australian Provider across education, training, research, capacity building, and consultancy initiatives with academia, industry, and the government. Deakin University has established exclusive partnerships in India to transform education and research into beneficial community outcomes, produce world-class graduates, and contribute to the communities’ growth and sustainability.

Source: Deakin University, Australia

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April 2, 2021

College Consensus Publishes "Aggregate Consensus Ranking" of the 100 Best Public Colleges and Universities for 2021 and 100 Best National Research Universities for 2021 in the USA.

Photo: A building at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Image credit: Corey Seeman.

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C., April 1, 2021 — College Consensus, a unique college rating website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews, has published its ranking the Best Public Colleges Universities for 2021 and the Best National Research Universities for 2021 in the USA.

Public colleges & universities are a vital part of higher education in America. Public schools generally provide a more affordable and accessible option for students than private colleges, helping to democratize higher education and build a more broadly educated citizenship.

• College Consensus 100 Best Public Colleges and Universities 2021

1. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI
2. University of Virginia-Main Campus — Charlottesville, VA
3. University of California-Los Angeles UCLA — Los Angeles, CA
4. University of California-Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
5. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC
6. California State University-Stanislaus — Turlock, CA
7. University of Florida — Gainesville, FL
8. California State University-Chico — Chico, CA
9. The University of California, Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara, CA
10. University of California-Davis — Davis, CA
11. University of California-Irvine — Irvine, CA
12. University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI
13. The University of Texas at Austin — Austin, TX
14. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus — Atlanta, GA
15. Purdue University-Main Campus — West Lafayette, IN
16. University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle, WA
17. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL
18. California State University-Long Beach — Long Beach, CA
19. Massachusetts Maritime Academy — Buzzards Bay, MA
20. William & Mary — Williamsburg, VA
21. University of California, San Diego — La Jolla, CA
22. Citadel Military College of South Carolina — Charleston, SC
23. Texas A & M University-College Station — College Station, TX
24. California State University-San Bernardino — San Bernardino, CA
25. California State University-Northridge — Northridge, CA
26. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg) — Blacksburg, VA
27. California State University-Dominguez Hills — Carson, CA
28. California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo — San Luis Obispo, CA
29. California State University-Sacramento — Sacramento, CA
30. Western Washington University — Bellingham, WA
31. James Madison University — Harrisonburg, VA
32. California State University-Channel Islands — Camarillo, CA
33. University of Georgia — Athens, GA
34. North Carolina State University at Raleigh — Raleigh, NC
35. University of Northern Iowa — Cedar Falls, IA
36. Ohio State University-Main Campus — Columbus, OH
37. Michigan State University — East Lansing, MI
38. Appalachian State University — Boone, NC
39. University of Connecticut — Storrs, CT
40. CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice — New York, NY
41. Eastern Illinois University — Charleston, IL
42. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN
43. Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL
44. California State Polytechnic University-Pomona — Pomona, CA
45. Keene State College — Keene, NH
46. Maine Maritime Academy — Castine, ME
47. Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ
48. Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN
49. California State University-Fullerton — Fullerton, CA
50. University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD
51. Truman State University — Kirksville, MO
52. California State University-Monterey Bay — Seaside, CA
53. Virginia Military Institute — Lexington, VA
54. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology — Socorro, NM
55. University of Mary Washington — Fredericksburg, VA
56. The University of Illinois at Chicago — Chicago, IL
57. University of Michigan-Dearborn — Dearborn, MI
58. University of Iowa — Iowa City, IA
59. University of Arizona — Tucson, AZ
60. San Francisco State University — San Francisco, CA
61. The College of New Jersey — Ewing, NJ
62. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse — La Crosse, WI
63. The State University of New York at New Paltz — New Paltz, NY
64. California State University-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA
65. California State University-Fresno — Fresno, CA
66. The University of Maine at Farmington — Farmington, ME
67. University of Massachusetts-Amherst — Amherst, MA
68. Clemson University — Clemson, SC
69. University of Delaware — Newark, DE
70. CUNY Bernard M Baruch College — New York, NY
71. Binghamton University — Vestal, NY
72. Farmingdale State College — Farmingdale, NY
73. Stony Brook University — Stony Brook, NY
74. University of California-Riverside — Riverside, CA
75. Central Washington University — Ellensburg, WA
76. Salisbury University — Salisbury, MD
77. California State University-San Marcos — San Marcos, CA
78. St. Mary’s College of Maryland — St. Mary’s City, MD
79. San Jose State University — San Jose, CA
80. Iowa State University — Ames, IA
81. Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO
82. California State University Maritime Academy — Vallejo, CA
83. CUNY Brooklyn College — Brooklyn, NY
84. Longwood University — Farmville, VA
85. Arizona State University-Tempe — Tempe, AZ
86. The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire — Eau Claire, WI
87. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA
88. Radford University — Radford, VA
89. University of Central Florida — Orlando, FL
90. SUNY Maritime College — Throggs Neck, NY
91. West Chester University of Pennsylvania — West Chester, PA
92. SUNY College at Geneseo — Geneseo, NY
93. Towson University — Towson, MD
94. Michigan Technological University — Houghton, MI
95. CUNY Lehman College — Bronx, NY
96. George Mason University — Fairfax, VA
97. California State University-East Bay — Hayward, CA
98. Montclair State University — Montclair, NJ
99. Sonoma State University — Rohnert Park, CA
100. SUNY College at Brockport — Brockport, NY

Photo: A signage at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Image credit: John.

The top research universities include some of the most prestigious names in higher education. Students who attend these schools have access to today’s leading thinkers and practitioners.

“We define national research universities as institutions that draw a student body from across the U.S. and world, rather than a primarily regional population, College Consensus clarified. “Carnegie Foundation has recognized all these schools and classified them according to the Carnegie tiered classification.”

According to College Consensus, it uses an aggregate scoring system that combines data across the internet. The Publisher Rating averages scores from U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, and WalletHub. The Student Rating combines scores from sites like Unigo, My Plan, and Students Review. The Publisher and Student ratings combined make up a school’s Consensus score.

• College Consensus 100 Best National Research Universities 2021

1. Yale University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
4. Princeton University
5. Harvard University
6. Duke University
7. Vanderbilt University
8. Dartmouth College
9. University of Pennsylvania
10. Brown University
11. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
12. University of Notre Dame
13. Rice University
14. Cornell University
15. Columbia University in the City of New York
16. University of Chicago
17. University of Virginia
18. University of California — Los Angeles
19. University of California — Berkeley
20. Washington University in St Louis
21. California Institute of Technology
22. Northwestern University
23. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24. University of Florida
25. Georgetown University
26. University of California—Santa Barbara
27. University of California—Davis
28. University of California—Irvine
29. University of Wisconsin—Madison
30. The University of Texas at Austin
31. Georgia Institute of Technology
32. Tufts University
33. Purdue University
34. University of Washington—Seattle Campus
35. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
36. Johns Hopkins University
37. William and Mary
38. University of Southern California
39. Emory University
40. University of California—San Diego
41. Texas A & M — College Station
42. Boston College
43. Carnegie Mellon University
44. Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Blacksburg)
45. Lehigh University
46. Wake Forest University
47. Brigham Young University — Provo
48. University of Georgia
49. North Carolina State University at Raleigh
50. Ohio State University
51. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
52. University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT
53. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities — Minneapolis, MN
54. Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL
55. Northeastern University — Boston, MA
56. George Washington University — Washington, DC
57. Boston University — Boston, MA
58. Brandeis University — Waltham, MA
59. Rutgers University-New Brunswick — New Brunswick, NJ
60. University of Rochester — Rochester, NY
61. Indiana University-Bloomington — Bloomington, IN
62. Tulane University of Louisiana — New Orleans, LA
63. University of Maryland-College Park — College Park, MD
64. University of Miami — Coral Gables, FL
65. The University of Illinois at Chicago — Chicago, IL
66. Southern Methodist University — Dallas, TX
67. New York University — New York, NY
68. University of Iowa — Iowa City, IA
69. University of Arizona — Tucson, AZ
70. Villanova University — Villanova, PA
71. University of Massachusetts-Amherst — Amherst, MA
72. Clemson University — Clemson, SC
73. University of Delaware — Newark, DE
74. Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland, OH
75. Binghamton University — Vestal, NY
76. Stony Brook University — Stony Brook, NY
77. University of California-Riverside — Riverside, CA
78. University of San Diego — San Diego, CA
79. Illinois Institute of Technology — Chicago, IL
80. Iowa State University — Ames, IA
81. Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO
82. American University — Washington, DC
83. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Troy, NY
84. Arizona State University-Tempe — Tempe, AZ
85. Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY
86. University of Tulsa — Tulsa, OK
87. Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Worcester, MA
88. Howard University — Washington, DC
89. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus — University Park, PA
90. University of Central Florida — Orlando, FL
91. Marquette University — Milwaukee, WI
92. Michigan Technological University — Houghton, MI
93. George Mason University — Fairfax, VA
94. Montclair State University — Montclair, NJ
95. University of New Hampshire-Main Campus — Durham, NH
96. University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus — Pittsburgh, PA
97. Rutgers University-Newark — Newark, NJ
98. University of California-Santa Cruz — Santa Cruz, CA
99. University at Buffalo — Buffalo, NY
100. The University of Utah — Salt Lake City, UT

Source: College Consensus

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April 1, 2021

Global University Leaders Commit to Joint Action on Reaching UN 2030 Sustainability Goals at an Online Event hosted by Zhejiang University in China.

Photo: University presidents from 30 countries unite to announce action on climate change. March 30, 2021. Image provided by Zhejiang University.

HANGZHOU, China, March 31, 2021 — On March 30, 2021, university presidents from 30 countries united for the first time to announce action on climate change. They signed a Joint Statement of Global University Leaders 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. UN officials witnessed the event.

That first global online forum for university leaders was hosted by Zhejiang University in China. Presidents from 56 universities across six continents committed to working together to meet sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The initiative includes five key aspects all signatories have agreed:

• Implementing the concept of sustainable development,
• Improving sustainable development competence,
• Supporting scientific research in response to global challenges,
• Working with international partners to provide innovative solutions
• Constructive transnational cooperation on specific issues.

Among the top 50 universities on the QS World University Rankings, 80% have developed their university-level sustainability strategy, plans, or operational activities. According to Zhaohui Wu, President of Zhejiang University (ZJU), the forum’s purpose was to bring together leaders from some of the best universities to share these visions and best practices on SDGs and explore opportunities for potential cooperation in safeguarding a sustainable future.

With less than nine years to meet targets and the pandemic slowing progress, the forum allowed leaders to share essential expertise on how to scale up efforts to deliver on the 2030 Agenda. The event gave academics a platform to clearly outline their action plans for human-oriented, innovation-driven, and down-to-earth sustainable development.

UN officials, including Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General, and Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, joined the speakers’ panel. The speakers included Peter Salovey, President of Yale University; Pam Fredman, President of the International Association of Universities; and Eric Labaye, President of Ecole Polytechnique.

Speakers reinforced how universities can work together to harness technology’s power to expand access to quality education. They also discussed how they should draw on their academic ecosystem to support scientific collaborations and knowledge transfer across disciplines.

Universities that have signed the initiative include:

• Peking University
• Kyoto University
• Korea University
• The National University of Singapore
• Harvard University
• Yale University
• The University of Toronto
• University College London
• Ecole Polytechnique
• The University of Oslo,
• Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
• The University of Sydney,
• Stellenbosch University
• Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

• Nikhil Seth, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, said: “SDGs belong to each of us, and everything we make impacts on the achievement, in the aggregate, to SDG achievement.”

• Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO, said: “The organization of the forum is timely, especially given the increasingly pivotal role of universities not only in fostering understanding and knowledge but also in contributing to building knowledge-based societies.”

• Pam Fredman, President of the International Association of Universities, Paris, said: “Cooperation and cohesion among Higher Education Institutions and organizations will foster knowledge development and sharing.”

• Zhaohui Wu, President of Zhejiang University (ZJU), said: “The ‘Global ZJU for Social Good’ plan establishes five objectives and associated actions to improve our sustainability-related education, research, and practices within the ZJU community and among other stakeholders in China and beyond. We aim to advocate for responsible sustainability, educate for a sustainable future, advance scientific collaborations, partner for collective well-being, and create greener campuses.”

Zhejiang University (ZJU) is an elite university located in Hangzhou, China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China’s oldest and prestigious institutions of higher education.

Source: Zhejiang University

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March 31, 2021

US News & World Report Announces 2022 Best Graduate Schools

Photo: Knight Management Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California. Image Credit: Corey Seeman.

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2021 — US News & World Report has published the 2022 Best Graduate Schools. The rankings evaluate programs across several disciplines - including business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing - for students interested in furthering their education beyond college.

US News added several standalone medical school rankings, using data from the Robert Graham Center, a division of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

These rankings display data on alumni’s various practice areas - specifically, the percentage of graduates practicing in primary care specialties, rural areas, and medically underserved areas.

US News has added two new student debt indicators to the overall Best Law Schools methodology: The average law school debt incurred by law school graduates and the percentage of law graduates who incurred debt.

“Trying to decide where to go to grad school can be overwhelming under normal circumstances, let alone during a pandemic,” said Anita Narayan, managing editor of Education at US News. “Along with our articles featuring expert advice on the admissions process, the Best Graduate Schools rankings provide helpful data to make that search more manageable for prospective students.”

Best Business Schools: Full-Time MBA

Stanford University is the No. 1 full-time MBA program, followed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School at No. 2. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business rounds out the top three.

Best Law Schools

The top school among Best Law Schools is Yale University. Stanford and Harvard University come in at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.

Best Medical Schools: Research

Harvard maintains the top spot among Best Medical Schools: Research, while New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine moves up to No. 2 this year. Duke University also moves up in the rankings to No. 3.

The University of Pennsylvania moves up to join Harvard in a tie for the top spot among education programs. MIT maintains its place as No. 1 in engineering, while Johns Hopkins is No. 1 among nursing master’s programs.

Alongside the six most prominent disciplines, US News has updated other graduate program rankings this year. These include criminology, economics, English, history, library and information studies, political science, public affairs, public health, and sociology.

2022 Best Graduate Schools Rankings

• Best 100 Business Schools: Full-Time MBA

1. Stanford University — Stanford, CA
2. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) — Philadelphia, PA
3. University of Chicago (Booth) — Chicago, IL
4. Northwestern University (Kellogg) — Evanston, IL
5. Harvard University — Boston, MA
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) — Cambridge, MA
7. Columbia University — New York, NY
8. University of California, Berkeley (Haas) — Berkeley, CA
9. Yale University — New Haven, CT
10. Dartmouth College (Tuck) — Hanover, NH
11. New York University (Stern) — New York, NY
12. Duke University (Fuqua) — Durham, NC
13. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross) — Ann Arbor, MI
14. University of Virginia (Darden) — Charlottesville, VA
15. Cornell University (Johnson) — Ithaca, NY
16. Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) — Pittsburgh, PA
17. University of Southern California (Marshall) — Los Angeles, CA
18. University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) — Los Angeles, CA
19. University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) — Austin, TX
20. University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) — Chapel Hill, NC
21. Georgetown University (McDonough) — Washington, DC
22. University of Washington (Foster) — Seattle, WA
23. Indiana University (Kelley) — Bloomington, IN
24. Vanderbilt University (Owen) — Nashville, TN
25. Rice University (Jones) — Houston, TX
26. Emory University (Goizueta) — Atlanta, GA
27. University of Florida (Warrington) — Gainesville, FL
28. Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) — Atlanta, GA
29. University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Carlson) — Minneapolis, MN
30. Arizona State University (W.P. Carey) — Tempe, AZ
31. Brigham Young University (Marriott) — Provo, UT
32. University of Texas—Dallas — Richardson, TX
33. Ohio State University (Fisher) — Columbus, OH
34. Pennsylvania State University, University Park (Smeal) — University Park, PA
35. University of Rochester (Simon) — Rochester, NY
36. University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) — Notre Dame, IN
37. Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) — St. Louis, MO
38. Texas A&M University, College Station (Mays) — College Station, TX
39. Michigan State University (Broad) — East Lansing, MI
40. University of Georgia (Terry) — Athens, GA
41. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Haslam) — Knoxville, TN
42. University of Maryland, College Park (Smith) — College Park, MD
43. University of Wisconsin, Madison — Madison, WI
44. Boston College (Carroll) — Chestnut Hill, MA
45. Purdue University, West Lafayette (Krannert) — West Lafayette, IN
46. Rutgers University—Newark and New Brunswick — Newark, NJ
47. Southern Methodist University (Cox) — Dallas, TX
48. University of Alabama (Manderson) — Tuscaloosa, AL
49. University of Utah (Eccles) — Salt Lake City, UT
50. Boston University (Questrom) — Boston, MA
51. Iowa State University (Ivy) — Ames, IA
52. University of Pittsburgh (Katz) — Pittsburgh, PA
53. George Washington University — Washington, DC
54. University of California, Davis — Davis, CA
55. Northeastern University (School of Business) — Boston, MA
56. University of South Carolina (Moore) — Columbia, SC
57. Texas Christian University (Neeley) — Fort Worth, TX
58. University of California—Irvine (Merage) — Irvine, CA
59. University of Massachusetts—Amherst (Isenberg) — Amherst, MA
60. Baylor University (Hankamer) — Waco, TX
61. University of Connecticut — Hartford, CT
62. University of Miami — Coral Gables, FL
63. Babson College (Olin) — Babson Park, MA
64. Fordham University (Gabelli) — New York, NY
65. Howard University — Washington, DC
66. North Carolina State University (Poole) — Raleigh, NC
67. University of Arizona (Eller) — Tucson, AZ
68. Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Ourso) — Baton Rouge, LA
69. Pepperdine University (Graziadio) — Malibu, CA
70. Stevens Institute of Technology — Hoboken, NJ
71. William & Mary — Williamsburg, VA
72. Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) — St. Louis, MO
73. University of Kansas — Lawrence, KS
74. Auburn University (Harbert) — Auburn, AL
75. Clemson University — Greenville, SC
76. University of Colorado, Boulder (Leeds) — Boulder, CO
77. Chapman University (Argyros) — Orange, CA
78. CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College (Zicklin) — New York, NY
79. University at Buffalo—SUNY — Buffalo, NY
80. University of Denver (Daniels) — Denver, CO
81. Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) — Cleveland, OH
82. University of Oklahoma (Price) — Oklahoma City, OK
83. University of Kentucky (Gatton) — Lexington, KY
84. Binghamton University—SUNY — Binghamton, NY
85. Syracuse University (Whitman) — Syracuse, NY
86. Temple University (Fox) — Philadelphia, PA
87. American University (Kogod) — Washington, DC
88. University of California—San Diego (Rady) — La Jolla, CA
89. University of San Francisco — San Francisco, CA
90. Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) — Rochester, NY
91. University of Mississippi — University, MS
92. Mississippi State University — Mississippi State, MS
93. Tulane University (Freeman) — New Orleans, LA
94. University of Oregon (Lundquist) — Eugene, OR
95. University of San Diego — San Diego, CA
96. North Carolina A&T State University — Greensboro, NC
97. Belmont University (Massey) — Nashville, TN
98. Drexel University (LeBow) — Philadelphia, PA
99. University of Houston (Bauer) — Houston, TX
100. University of Colorado, Denver — Denver, CO

• Best 100 Law Schools

1. Yale University — New Haven, CT
2. Stanford University — Stanford, CA
3. Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
4. Columbia University — New York, NY
5. University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
6. New York University — New York, NY
7. University of Pennsylvania (Carey) — Philadelphia, PA
8. University of Virginia — Charlottesville, VA
9. University of California—Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
10. Duke University — Durham, NC
11. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, MI
12. Northwestern University (Pritzker) — Chicago, IL
13. Cornell University — Ithaca, NY
14. University of California Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA
15. Georgetown University — Washington, DC
16. University of Texas, Austin — Austin, TX
17. Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN
18. Washington University in St. Louis — St. Louis, MO
19. University of Southern California (Gould) — Los Angeles, CA
20. Boston University — Boston, MA
21. University of Florida (Levin) — Gainesville, FL
22. University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, MN
23. University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, IN
24. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, NC
25. Arizona State University (O’Connor) — Phoenix, AZ
26. University of Alabama — Tuscaloosa, AL
27. George Washington University — Washington, DC
28. University of Georgia — Athens, GA
29. Boston College — Newton, MA
30. Brigham Young University (Clark) — Provo, UT
31. Emory University — Atlanta, GA
32. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — Champaign, IL
33. University of Iowa — Iowa City, IA
34. University of Wisconsin, Madison — Madison, WI
35. Fordham University — New York, NY
36. University of California, Davis — Davis, CA
37. University of California, Irvine — Irvine, CA
38. Washington and Lee University — Lexington, VA
39. William & Mary Law School — Williamsburg, VA
40. Ohio State University (Moritz) — Columbus, OH
41. George Mason University — Arlington, VA
42. Wake Forest University — Winston-Salem, NC
43. Indiana University, Bloomington (Maurer) — Bloomington, IN
44. University of Utah (Quinney) — Salt Lake City, UT
45. University of Washington — Seattle, WA
46. Pepperdine University Caruso — Malibu, CA
47. University of Arizona (Rogers) — Tucson, AZ
48. Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL
49. University of Colorado, Boulder — Boulder, CO
50. University of California (Hastings) — San Francisco, CA
51. University of Maryland (Carey) — Baltimore, MD
52. Southern Methodist University (Dedman) — Dallas, TX
53. Temple University (Beasley) — Philadelphia, PA
54. Texas A&M University — Fort Worth, TX
55. University of Richmond — Richmond, VA
56. Villanova University — Villanova, PA
57. Yeshiva University (Cardozo) — New York, NY
58. Baylor University — Waco, TX
59. University of Connecticut — Hartford, CT
60. Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law — Carlisle, PA
61. Pennsylvania State University—University Park — University Park, PA
62. Tulane University — New Orleans, LA
63. University of Houston — Houston, TX
64. University of Missouri — Columbia, MO
65. University of Nevada, Las Vegas — Las Vegas, NV
66. University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Knoxville, TN
67. Northeastern University — Boston, MA
68. University of Oklahoma — Norman, OK
69. University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, PA
70. Seton Hall University — Newark, NJ
71. University of Kansas — Lawrence, KS
72. Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland, OH
73. Loyola Marymount University — Los Angeles, CA
74. St. John’s University — Jamaica, NY
75. University of Miami — Coral Gables, FL
76. University of Oregon — Eugene, OR
77. Wayne State University — Detroit, MI
78. Georgia State University — Atlanta, GA
79. Loyola University Chicago — Chicago, IL
80. University of Denver (Sturm) — Denver, CO
81. American University (Washington) — Washington, DC
82. Brooklyn Law School — Brooklyn, NY
83. Drexel University (Kline) — Philadelphia, PA
84. University of Cincinnati — Cincinnati, OH
85. University of Kentucky — Lexington, KY
86. University of San Diego — San Diego, CA
87. University of Nebraska, Lincoln — Lincoln, NE
88. Florida International University — Miami, FL
89. Lewis & Clark College (Northwestern) — Portland, OR
90. University of New Hampshire — Concord, NH
91. Howard University — Washington, DC
92. Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent) — Chicago, IL
93. Michigan State University — East Lansing, MI
94. Rutgers University — Newark and Camden, NJ
95. Saint Louis University — St. Louis, MO
96. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville — Fayetteville, AR
97. University of South Carolina — Columbia, SC
98. University at Buffalo, SUNY — Buffalo, NY
99. University of Hawaii, Manoa (Richardson) — Honolulu, HI
100. University of Louisville (Brandeis) — Louisville, KY
101. University of Mississippi — University, MS
102. CUNY School of Law — Long Island City, NY

• Best 5 Medical Schools: Research

1. Harvard University (MA)
2. New York University (Grossman)
3. Duke University (NC)
4. Columbia University (NY)
5. Stanford University (CA)

Source: US News & World Report

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March 30, 2021

College Consensus Publishes Aggregate Consensus Ranking of the 100 Best Value U.S. Colleges & Universities for 2021.

Photo: The gate in front of Old Main Building, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois. Image credit: Travis Stansel / Illinois Public Media.

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C., March 30, 2021 — College Consensus, a unique college rating website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews, has published its ranking of the Best Value U.S. Colleges and Universities for 2021.

“Student debt represents the second-largest consumer debt class in the U.S. today. It’s no surprise that many prospective college students are looking to avoid a lifetime of debt without compromising education quality. We have ranked the Best Value Colleges and Universities for 2021 to guide students looking for quality and affordability,” College Consensus said.

“When it comes to college, affordability isn’t cheap. Keeping costs down, and student loan debt low is every student’s worry,” the ranking agency remarked.

“In the age of rapidly rising tuition, college costs have risen far faster than the inflation rate in the 21st century and even faster than financial aid. Affordability is no joke. With our 2021 Consensus Ranking of the 100 Best Value Colleges & Universities, College Consensus is lighting up the way to a college education students can afford,” the publisher elaborated.

• Top 50 Schools in the Best Value U.S. Colleges and Universities ranking for 2021

1. Brigham Young University-Provo — Provo, UT
2. North Dakota State University-Main Campus — Fargo, ND
3. Eastern Illinois University — Charleston, IL
4. CUNY City College — New York, NY
5. Truman State University — Kirksville, MO
6. CUNY Hunter College — New York, NY
7. CUNY Lehman College — Bronx, NY
8. CUNY Brooklyn College — Brooklyn, NY
9. CUNY Bernard M Baruch College — New York, NY
10. CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice — New York, NY
11. CUNY Queens College — Queens, NY
12. University of Minnesota-Morris — Morris, MN
13. Winona State University — Winona, MN
14. University of North Dakota — Grand Forks, ND
15. Fitchburg State University — Fitchburg, MA
16. Westfield State University — Westfield, MA
17. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point — Stevens Point, WI
18. The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire — Eau Claire, WI
19. University of South Florida-Main Campus — Tampa, FL
20. University of Wisconsin-Stout — Menomonie, WI
21. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University — Tallahassee, FL
22. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse — La Crosse, WI
23. University of Wyoming — Laramie, WY
24. Birmingham-Southern College — Birmingham, AL
25. The State University of New York at New Paltz — New Paltz, NY
26. SUNY Polytechnic Institute — Utica, NY
27. SUNY Maritime College — Throggs Neck, NY
28. Farmingdale State College — Farmingdale, NY
29. California State University-Fresno — Fresno, CA
30. SUNY College at Brockport — Brockport, NY
31. SUNY College at Oswego — Oswego, NY
32. California State University-Los Angeles — Los Angeles, CA
33. SUNY Oneonta — Oneonta, NY
34. California State University-Channel Islands — Camarillo, CA
35. California State University-Long Beach — Long Beach, CA
36. SUNY Cortland — Cortland, NY
37. California State University-San Bernardino — San Bernardino, CA
38. SUNY College at Plattsburgh — Plattsburgh, NY
39. Florida State University — Tallahassee, FL
40. California State University-Fullerton — Fullerton, CA
41. California State University-Dominguez Hills — Carson, CA
42. SUNY at Purchase College — Purchase, NY
43. SUNY College at Geneseo — Geneseo, NY
44. California State University-Northridge — Northridge, CA
45. California State University-East Bay — Hayward, CA
46. University of Minnesota-Duluth — Duluth, MN
47. Florida International University — Miami, FL
48. California State University Maritime Academy — Vallejo, CA
49. California State University-Monterey Bay — Seaside, CA
50. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry — Syracuse, NY

Source: College Consensus

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March 25, 2021

UNESCO extends full support to its new National Education Policy as India starts expanding Research-oriented Higher Education towards building a Knowledge-based Economy

Photos: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. March 25, 2021. Director-General of UNESCO Ms. Audrey Azoulay talks with Mr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank,’ Minister of Education of India, through a video conference. Images provided by & copyright © UNESCO / Fabrice GENTILE.

• New Delhi / Paris, March 25, 2021 —India’s Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, held a virtual meeting with Director-General UNESCO, Ms. Audrey Azoulay, today. They discussed critical issues of mutual importance, including National Education Policy and India’s response to the COVID Pandemic.

Mr. Pokhriyal said that the Ministry of Education Government of India has ensured that education reaches even the last child in the country’s remotest part.

The Minister also mentioned that competitive entrance exams for almost 2.3 million students, the most extensive entrance examinations in the world, were conducted successfully and safely during the covid pandemic.

Minister emphasized that the Government of India National Education Policy 2020 aims to transform the educational ecosystem for over 340 million students of the country. It is based on the foundations of Equality, Equity, Access, Affordability, and Accountability. It seeks to fulfill the vision of making India a ‘global superpower of knowledge’ and the ‘mission to create a ‘global citizen.’

Director-General of UNESCO Ms. Audrey Azoulay appreciated the response of the Indian Government in mitigating the challenges of covid and ensuring continuity of education during the covid pandemic by providing education to the students through different mediums of TV, Radio, and online to the last student of the country. She remarked that India’s response to covid was remarkable in terms of scale and diversity. She requested the Union Minister share the experiences and best practices relating to India’s education sector with UNESCO member states. She congratulated the Minister for bringing out the New Education policy, which is visionary and capable of transforming the education sector. On behalf of UNSECO, she extended full support in its implementation.

• New Delhi, March 23, 2021 — India’s Education Ministry said today that the National Education Policy 2020 envisions an education system rooted in Indian ethos that contributes directly to sustainably transforming India into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society.

• “The new education policy aims to provide high-quality education, innovation, and research, thereby making India a global knowledge superpower. The Policy envisages that the institutions’ curriculum and pedagogy must develop a deep sense of respect towards the Fundamental Duties and Constitutional values, bonding with one’s country, and conscious awareness of one’s roles and responsibilities in a changing world.

• “The Policy’s vision is to instill a deep-rooted pride in being Indian, not only in thought but also in spirit, intellect, and deeds. It aims to develop knowledge, skills, values, and dispositions that support responsible commitment to human rights, sustainable development, and global well-being, thereby reflecting a truly global citizen.

• “National Education Policy 2020 envisions a comprehensive approach to transforming India’s quality and quantity of research. It includes inter-alia promoting research in universities, the inclusion of research and internships in the undergraduate curriculum, faculty career management systems that give due weightage to study, and the governance and regulatory changes that encourage an environment of research and innovation. These aspects are highly critical for developing a research mindset in the country.

• “To build on these various elements in a synergistic manner and thereby truly grow and catalyze quality research in the nation, this Policy envisions establishing a National Research Foundation (NRF). The overarching goal of the NRF would be to enable a culture of research to permeate through the universities. The NRF would provide a reliable base of merit-based but equitable peer-reviewed research funding, helping develop the country’s research culture. Through appropriate incentives for and recognition of outstanding research, it would undertake significant initiatives to seed and grow research at State Universities and other public institutions where research capability is currently limited.”

India’s Minister for Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, gave this information through a statement in the Indian Parliament.

Source: Ministry of Education, Government of India.

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March 19, 2021

University Grants Commission (UGC) India recognizes Cost Accountant Qualification equivalent to Post Graduate Degree.

• Candidates who have qualified for the Chartered Accountant (CA), Company Secretary (CS), or Cost and Works Accountant (ICWA) exams will now be treated equivalent to postgraduate degree holders, according to the University Grants Commission (UGC).

• UGC made this decision on the behest of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India to help CA, CS, and ICWA qualification holders improve their mobility.

New Delhi, March 19, 2021 — To increase their academic mobility, the University Grants Commission has concluded that those qualifying the Chartered Accountant (CA), Company Secretary (CS), or Cost and Works Accountant (ICWA) exams are equivalent to postgraduate degree holders.

UGC said that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India had requested it to consider the qualifications they award (CA, CS, and ICWA) as equivalent to post-graduation degrees.

To consider this, the UGC constituted an expert committee. The commission accepted the expert committee’s recommendation and resolved that CA, CS, and ICWA qualifications be considered equivalent to PG degrees, the UGC said in its official order.

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) said this decision would offer more scope to its professionals worldwide. “This recognition will leverage the company secretary profession across the globe, allowing the members of the institute to pursue Ph.D. in Commerce and Allied Disciplines,” the Institute said in a release.

Nagendra D Rao, President of ICSI, said, “This recognition will open up another world of opportunities for company secretaries. Such recognitions reaffirm the fact that with the increasing focus on good governance, the demand for Company Secretaries, as skilled professionals, is both ubiquitous and inevitable.”

Nihar N Jambusaria, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), said that this equivalence to Post Graduate Degree would open up the International market for various job avenues for ICAI qualification holders. It would aid those seeking professional opportunities abroad.”

Biswarup Basu, President of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, remarked that this recognition would facilitate widespread international acceptance of its Cost & Management Accounting qualification.

In their presentations to the UGC, the Chartered Accountants (CA) and the Company Secretaries (CS) bodies had argued that students who have cleared CA and CS exams have already attained a high level of education. At the same time, the Cost Accountants body had emphasized that compared to M.Com and MBA, ICWA students’ curriculum is much more elaborate.

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India, established in 1944, was set up under an Act of Parliament in 1959 by India’s Government as a statutory professional body to impart education and training in Cost and Management Accountancy. The Institute is the 2nd most significant Cost & Management Accounting body globally. It is a founder member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).

Sources: UGC, Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

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— The editor is an alumnus of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

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March 12, 2021

CUNY SPH to be honored with ASPPH Award for Outstanding Community Service

Photo: Hospital Corpsmen providing vaccinations to New York City civilians as Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announces the opening of State-FEMA mass vaccination site at York College / CUNY in Queens, New York. February 24, 2021. (Photo Don Pollard // Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo). Image provided by Navy Medicine.

NEW YORK, March 12, 2021 — At its 2021 Annual Meeting this month, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) will present the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) with the Harrison C. Spencer Award for Outstanding Community Service.

The ASPPH Harrison C. Spencer Award for Outstanding Community Service acknowledges Dr. Spencer, who had a long-standing commitment to social justice principles focusing on community engagement. This annual award is given to an ASPPH-member and accredited school or public health program that demonstrates a significant institutional commitment to addressing community needs through education, practice, and research.

CUNY SPH said that community engagement is integral to its vision of promoting health and social justice in New York City and across the globe through innovation and excellence in education, research, and service in public health. “We embrace a multifaceted concept of ‘community’ that includes half a million CUNY students at its center, exceeding a million when including the students’ families and close social circle. The school engages with its immediate neighborhood in Harlem, broader New York City public health community, government agencies, health care institutions, and academia,” the institution elaborated.

“We are delighted and humbled by the news of this award,” said CUNY SPH Dean Ayman El-Mohandes. “We look forward to continuing our work to partner with our community in New York City and beyond, to advance social justice, and to improve health outcomes for all.”

The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (commonly known as the CUNY School of Public Health, or CUNY SPH) is a public research and professional college within the City University of New York (CUNY) system of colleges.

Source: CUNY SPH

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March 8, 2021

UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education invites Nominations.

Photo: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the OECD Convention. Image provided by & copyright © UNESCO/Christelle ALIX. [File Photo]

Photo: Scenes from the United Nations Observance of International Women’s Day 2020, held in the UN General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters in New York on 6 March 2020. Image provided by & copyright © UN Women/Ryan Brown. [File Photo]

Paris, France, March 8, 2021 — On International Women’s Day, UNESCO launched the call for nominations for the 2021 UNESCO Award for Girls’ and Women’s Education. The Prize awards US$ 50,000 annually to two laureates making outstanding efforts in favor of girls’ and women’s education.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and in a context where girls and women have been disproportionately impacted by nationwide school closures, ensuring that girls and women continue learning must be a priority. UNESCO estimates that over 11 million girls and young women may not return to school following the pandemic’s impact. About 128 million girls were already out of school before the pandemic, UNESCO said.

The Prize is more significant in these challenging times than ever before. Highlighting innovations that can help us foster an equal future is key to responding to global challenges around girls’ and women’s education, UNESCO added.

OFFICIAL INVITATION

• “Governments of the UNESCO Member States and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in official partnership with UNESCO are now invited to nominate up to three individuals, institutions, or organizations who have made substantial, innovative contributions in favor of girls and women’s education.

• “Interested candidates are invited to contact their country’s National Commission for UNESCO/Permanent Delegation to UNESCO or an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO for more information.

• “Nominations must meet the eligibility and selection criteria set by the Prize. Nominated projects must be established and running for at least two years, show potential to be replicable and scalable, and contribute to one or more of the priority areas of the Prize.

• “An independent International Jury of five experts will assess nominations based on the project’s potential for impact, innovation, and sustainability.

• “Deadline for submissions is 26 May 2021 (midnight, Paris time).

• “Nominations must be submitted in English or French via an online platform, accessible only to National Commissions for UNESCO/Permanent Delegations to UNESCO and NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO.

• “Based on the recommendations of the Jury, the Director-General of UNESCO will announce the 2021 laureates who will receive the award on 11 October 2021 as part of International Day of the Girl Child celebrations.”

Source: UNESCO

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