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AANHPI in Higher Education: Facts and Statistics

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Note Reference [1] Check Immediate college enrollment for Asian students was 82%, a rate much higher than those for white students (69%), Hispanic and Latino/a students (64%), and Black students (57%). [3] 3] Check Roughly 93% of Asian college students were first- or second-generation immigrants as of 2007-2008. [4]

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Three Universities, National Science Foundation Take on AI’s Trustworthiness

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The National Science Foundation granted the institute $20 million as one of seven new AI institutes. Lead director Hal Daumé said the institute plans to create and revitalize classes, undergraduate and graduate research opportunities, as well as boot camps, and opportunities for regional high school students.

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Colleges Offer Courses in Klingon and Dothraki. Yes, Really.

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Only about 1,000 people speak Esperanto as their native language, Grant Goodall, professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, told BestColleges. A former graduate student of Goodall's at UC San Diego, David Peterson , is one of those people who has sat down at a desk and invented a language.