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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Dismantling Global Injustices - Dr. Brendan Skip Mark

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. That experience proved to be life-altering.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal.

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Claudine Gay to become first Black president of Harvard

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. The Royal Society adopts the same wording. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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Interdisciplinarity

SRHE

Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. We invite further blogs on the topic from other institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.