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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars. Nor are they, like the City University of New York’s 2 and 4 year colleges, dedicated to broad access and upward mobility. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

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UNESCO (2021 ) have called for HE to ‘repair injustices while transforming the future’ by 2050, with a new ‘social contract’ that prioritises ‘human dignity and cultural diversity’, plus ‘care, reciprocity, and solidarity’. Three Hearts and Nine Minds. TP features three EDI tenets and nine dimensions. Creativity, Community and Co-Creation.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. In all this lay the beginnings of an academic ‘research culture’, though well into the twentieth century the Fellows of Colleges did not usually have – or seek – doctorates.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

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The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. In March, the university received the last installment of a 10-year, $95 million deal with the government, which, until now, had been largely responsible for funding the college. ambassador’s house.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

Hull is an associate professor of Chinese studies at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Nicole Grewling is an associate professor of German studies and of humanities at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. Katherine S. link] Farrand, P.,

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

Hull is an associate professor of Chinese studies at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Nicole Grewling is an associate professor of German studies and of humanities at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where she has taught language, literature, and culture courses since 2011. Katherine S. link] Farrand, P.,

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Reflections on the state of Chaucer studies (opinion)

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He considered him his earliest precursor, the father of English poetry and creator of literary English, powerful mythographies that have enjoyed a longue durée despite nuanced later scholarship. For about a century, this iconic status protected the medieval poet from being publicly impugned. Perhaps because historically in the U.S.