{"id":89527,"date":"2023-11-11T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=89527"},"modified":"2023-11-11T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:43:25","slug":"universities-cant-accommodate-all-the-computer-science-majors-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/11\/11\/universities-cant-accommodate-all-the-computer-science-majors-alonso\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Can\u2019t Accommodate All the Computer Science Majors [Alonso]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/students\/academics\/2023\/11\/02\/high-demand-comp-sci-degrees-leads-enrollment-caps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Universities Can\u2019t Accommodate All the Computer Science Majors<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by\u00a0Johanna Alonso<br \/>\n<em>High interest in the field has led to overcrowded classes and other issues. Now some institutions are adding requirements to help force students out of the major.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Before this year, if you wanted to major in computer science at the University of Michigan, your only barrier was getting accepted to the university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But a new model requires all students who want to study computer science\u2014whether they are incoming or already enrolled\u2014to apply for the major separately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Michael Wellman, Michigan\u2019s chair of computer science and engineering, said that the university has worked for years to try to accommodate everyone who wants to study the subject, hiring as many as six faculty members annually in recent years and even building a new computer science facility. The number of CS\u00a0degrees awarded\u00a0rose from 132 in 2012 to 600 in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities Can\u2019t Accommodate All the Computer Science Majors &#8212; from insidehighered.com by\u00a0Johanna Alonso High interest in the field has led to overcrowded classes and other issues. Now some institutions are adding requirements to help force students out of the major. Before this year, if you wanted to major in computer science at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,302,45,71,3,385,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-michigan","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89528,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89527\/revisions\/89528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}