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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. At my university, the provost has put in place a prerecorded self-paced, self-directed asynchronous U.S.

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MEGA Symposium to Build Pipelines that Bring Black and Latinx Men to College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nine out of ten raise their hands,” said Jean, assistant provost for special programs at MSU. Dr. Daniel Jean, assistant provost for special programs at Montclair State university. Jean himself lost a close friend to street violence, and he said the crisis has only worsened since he was a teen.

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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. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctor of humane letters from McPherson College.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have a proposal for a graduate certificate program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that the provost supports. … Courses were developed by various faculty members as far back as 2012, but the process stalled for several years until White stepped up and took the reins. “We We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Why Do Universities Lie About Program Information?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

The  lawsuit  — filed earlier this month by the human resources manager at Rutgers' business school — alleges that the school spent at least $400,000 placing seven graduates into "sham" positions between 2018 and 2019. News & World Report.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Still others are climate refugees in search of land that supports human life. “We use bots in serving our students,” Reshef said, adding that this frees human professors to do work that is better suited to human minds. Others have fled wars in Syria or Ukraine. ’ 10,000 times.

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Lessons Learned – The Implementation Stage of Microcredentials

WCET Frontiers

Lesley Voigt, Madison College: We brought micro-credentials to campus in 2012 as a way to help validate and verify the learning that takes place within our Continuing Education courses. Madison College: There were very few organizations especially in higher ed that were utilizing digital badges when we first started (2012).