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Harvard Names Dr. Claudine Gay to Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Claudine Gay is making history. Gay will be the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League university, following Dr. Ruth Simmons, who served as president of Brown University from 2001 to 2012. Claudine Gay, president-elect of Harvard University. Bacow on July 1, 2023.

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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. Gloria Ladson-Billings Dr. Arnetha F. Ball, the Charles E. Dr. Joyce E.

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

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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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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Our relationship with McPherson College began in 2012, when I donated tool sets to the college’s automotive restoration program in honor of Richard’s birthday. Earlier this year, Richard donated his prized 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona, marking the first Ferrari in the automotive restoration program’s 45-year history.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

A Quick History Through the 2000s, online learning was largely the purview of for-profit colleges serving adult learners. For-profit colleges jumped first: in 2012, the University of Phoenix spent almost $400,000 per day to bring half a million students through its doors. The industry has evolved; so too have the OPMs.

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Professor's murder on campus raises urgent safety questions

Inside Higher Ed

Dervish has a history of troubling behavior. Patrick Prince, associate provost and head of threat assessment at USC since 2017, said this week that USC has made several other major changes since Tjan’s death. But it exists.

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About Those Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Emory University (in 2012), Claremont McKenna College (the same year) and Tulane University (in 2013) have all been previously exposed. Is there an educational policymaker who sincerely believes that the quality of a college can be ranked by a single number? Students taking these courses in the spring were undoubtedly harmed by the practice.

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