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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception. Dr. Linda Darling- Hammond The leadership of the national research society that strives to advance knowledge about education and currently boasts a membership of about 25,000 scholars — remained exclusively white until the 1990s. Dr. Carol D.

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LGBTQ+ attacks mount as students, allies rally to defend rights

University Business

While the poll does not attribute any specific reason to these higher negative emotions, the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics found that sexual orientation was the second-most motivating bias for hate crimes at postsecondary institutions, behind only race. That same month, Florida Gov.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

I’ve done and I do it instinctively, and because until recently I’ve really loved higher education. I’ve done and I do it instinctively, and because until recently I’ve really loved higher education. But this is not holding up so well.” He referred questions Tuesday to a university spokesperson.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Some HBCUs strive for R-1 status with record research dollars

Inside Higher Ed

“R-1 is the gold standard for quality educational research,” May said. No HBCU currently holds such a classification, but administrators at some colleges say the designation feels increasingly attainable after years of striving and strategizing and a record year of securing research dollars. ” Dr. Wayne A.

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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. Octopuses and Tentacles.