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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.

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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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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.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

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. Maynard is the director of the Teaching and Scholarship Hub at the University of Richmond. Katherine S. link] Farrand, P.,

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

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. Maynard is the director of the Teaching and Scholarship Hub at the University of Richmond. Katherine S. link] Farrand, P.,

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Reflections on the state of Chaucer studies (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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.