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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

Her book’s title is, of course, drawn from the 2002 bestseller, pastor Rick Warren’s blueprint for a Christian living in the 21 st century, a sort of “12-step”-like, 40-day program to introduce readers to Christian doctrine and faith. Input from the humanities is essential. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

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’. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10.