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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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With ChatGPT, we must teach students to be editors (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” and “Where’s a 2012 Mini Cooper’s battery location?” A college history professor declared she would have given what the program spat out in response to an exam prompt “ an F- if that’s possible.”

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Understanding the student experience better

SRHE

It is the stuff of academia. These factors were all either in place or forming into working relationships for shared practice and research before the final step to the neoliberal misnomer of ‘customer is king’ by 2012/13. There have been insights shared and arguments made. Was that Marx or Martin Luther King Jr?

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

In 2012 the Finch review of options for academic publishing seemed immediately to have got it wrong, as later experience showed: … we must look beyond Finch for the open access formula that ‘maximises benefits and minimizes risks’. (No In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation.

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The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

For example, an institution known for forensic science might develop an online MBA program with a specialization in that area, leveraging its unique history and specialization. But lately, there’s been so much significant change in academia, that I’ve fallen much more into a role of looking at the bigger, broader trend.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. Kendi, author of “How to Be an Antiracist.” .

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Universities on Fire

HESA

The second half of this interview in particular provides some really interesting insight into issues of what enablers are required for academia to really turn the corner on CO 2 emissions. My previous book Academia Next argued that higher education specifically in the United States was overbuilt for capacity. This is already starting.