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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. His articles on a wide variety of subjects—18th-century British literature, C.S.

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Texas consortium of 44 colleges strikes deal with Elsevier

Inside Higher Ed

The consortium—known as the Texas Library Coalition for United Action—announced last month that it had reached a deal with Elsevier that is expected to improve access to scholarship, afford researchers greater control over their work and save the member institutions millions. Some laud the agreement as historic.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is indeed completely free,” said Dr. Bryn Geffert, dean of libraries at UVM. “It Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. Geffert himself has prior experience with o pen-access models.

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This article will explore how educators can move away from this kind of pathological approach to better help autistic students succeed academically. American Psychiatric Association (2013).

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Disability as a Valuable Form of Diversity, Not a Deficit

Faculty Focus

Typically, educational professionals focus on how to help students better access what is considered ‘typical’ learning (Ong-Dean, 2005). This article will explore how educators can move away from this kind of pathological approach to better help autistic students succeed academically. American Psychiatric Association (2013).

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Doris Espiritu EPW was created by Dr. Doris Espiritu, Senior Advisor to the Provost, dean of the Center of Excellence for Engineering & Computer Science, City Colleges of Chicago. There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships.

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Inside Higher Ed

A 2013 study by academic researchers at the University of Chicago and Rutgers University found that between 31 percent and 46 percent of youth aging out of foster care had experienced homelessness at least once by age 26. percent, say advocates with John Burton Advocates for Youth, which is promoting the bill.

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