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Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Condoleezza Rice is a professor of political economy in the Graduate School of Business, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University. Bush’s national security adviser from January 2001-2005, the first woman to hold the position.

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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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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

The grants from these bodies are relatively large (for the arts, humanities and social sciences), and are typically expected to make a theoretical, not only empirical, contribution. NB Data are available from 2004, but no education grants are recorded for either 2004 or 2005.

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ENGAGEMENT: The Secret Sauce to Effective Faculty Professional Development

Faculty Focus

Always keep in mind that behind all student data, there is a human reflection, and every percentage represents a person, therefore, make the data personal. The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Why are we here? I must see it to learn it.”

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ENGAGEMENT: The Secret Sauce to Effective Faculty Professional Development

Faculty Focus

Always keep in mind that behind all student data, there is a human reflection, and every percentage represents a person, therefore, make the data personal. The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Why are we here? I must see it to learn it.”

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Lessons in Innovation for Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

As an example of matching, Dr. Temes described how the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly introduced its model for inviting outside thinkers to help solve pure science problems, and how NASA then used that model to invite fresh thinking about aerospace design. Matching those is where you have tremendous value." How do I test it?