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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As American society continues to divide along political lines, higher education and educators have unique potential to help foster interpartisan friendships, according to a new study from North Carolina State University. The findings are based on data from the Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes…

Mid-tier IT services company Persistent Systems aims to visit fewer campuses for hiring freshers, a senior official said on Monday. Over the next three years, the company is also targeting to expand its operating profit margin by about 3 percentage points above the levels of about 14.5-15 per cent it aims to exit FY23, its chief financial officer Sunil Sapre told PTI. Speaking two days after the Pune-based company announced its December quarter earnings, Sapre said it is already carrying candidates who have been trained…

The union representing 29,000 faculty members at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, is set to walk off the job for five days beginning Monday, disrupting the first week of the spring semester for tens of thousands of students.The systemwide strike of professors, lecturers, counselors, librarians and coaches, who are demanding a 12% wage increase and other benefits, is the first ever across all of CSU’s 23 campuses. It is expected to add to the confusion of the first days…

I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks. I have heard antisemitic things from time to time through my life. I remember as a child being called a “dirty Jew,” and my friends and I being called “Christ killers” as we walked to Hebrew school. I recall a college girlfriend’s parents telling her that she should not go out with me because “Jews are different.” I had an incident in a class I was teaching about the ethics of negotiations, where a student…

Federal authorities have launched civil rights investigations into five California campuses — UCLA, UC San Diego, Stanford, San Diego State and Santa Monica College — since the Israel-Hamas war erupted two months ago, but it is not known how many may involve allegations of antisemitism or harassment against Arabs and Muslims.At least one university, San Diego State, said the complaint triggering the federal action involved a June 2023 incident that “is in no way related to the Israel-Hamas War or any dispute between…

The creator economy is already estimated to be a $250 billion industry and is projected to hit $480 billion in just four more years, according to research from Goldman Sachs. However, only around 4% of global creators consider themselves professionals.Part of the creator economy’s growing pains has been creators learning as they go. The resources for a more formalized approach to developing the craft and business acumen of being a creator is still nascent, which is exactly where Whalar is leaning in.The Lighthouse…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Universities will do the environment a good service and trim deforestation levels if they turn their campuses paperless, according to a study published as part of the 2022 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET). The call comes as hundreds of renowned…

IT company Newgen Software Technologies is "confident" of about 20% topline growth for FY24, backed by resilience of its focus markets like India and Asia Pacific which are growth drivers, a top official said. The company is looking at hiring about 400-500 people from campuses this year to meet its business requirements, having fulfilled its commitment of timely onboarding of campus recruits last year, Virender Jeet, CEO of Newgen Software, told PTI. Unlike many IT services companies that are facing macro headwinds in…

Students at 68 colleges and universities across the US will easily be able to use their Samsung phones to tap for access and purchases. Samsung's Wallet app now supports digital student IDs, so long as it's on the United States versions of the brand's latest devices. Some of the educational institutions that have enabled ID integration for Samsung Wallet are Penn State, the University of Florida, Central Michigan University, University of North Alabama and the Stevens Institute of Technology. Apple has supported…

Rents for student housing are poised to grow at many colleges, boosted by limited supply and strong demand. Rents for student housing are poised to grow at many colleges, boosted by limited supply and strong demand. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If…