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Meet Some of this Year's MacArthur Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marr, for one, is a civil and environmental engineer with a specific focus on air quality, airborne pathogens, atmospheric science, and public health. Such were the emotions of many of the MacArthur Fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "I Marr , the Charles P. It's shocking and astonishing.

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Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 156 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Jeff Scheuer

The Change Leader, Inc.

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy. The liberal arts isn’t limited to the humanities.

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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The World’s Rising Scientific Research Nations

HESA

I was sitting at home this weekend, reading the UNESCO World Science Report (2021) , as one does, when I started poking around with the actual bibliometric numbers. First: what is the UNESCO World Science Report? It’s through annual publications in all fields except Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, as measured through Scopus.

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The College Classroom as an Arena of Contention

Inside Higher Ed

Those are just a few of the words that two Fox News critics used in 2007 to describe Rupert Murdock’s agenda-driven rightwing propaganda machine in their riotously funny, profanity-laced takedown, Fair and Balanced My Ass! Leonard Downie Jr., Leonard Downie Jr., Yet Downie’s piece ignores a telling fact.

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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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Seize the Moment with “Call & Response” Podcast Learning Practices

Faculty Focus

It is more advantageous for the learner when instructors build smaller “chunks” of topics into several conceptual podcast blocks (Simonson 2007). Thus, online learning may have favorably trained students to aggregate and integrate many forms of technology at one time to enrich the learning experience (Law-Penrose, 2021).