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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This endeavor was announced last week, with its first publication, The Journal of Ecological Engineering Design, released that week as well. "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.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession.

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War upends plans for campus in Kyiv

Inside Higher Ed

McGrew said he’d been eager to return to the country since he taught English there as a member of the Peace Corps in 2013 and 2015. “Project management certificates, civil engineering degrees, architectural design programs—things of that nature. “Eventually, we need to get tuition revenue up,” he said.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. CMU-Africa was established as CMU-Rwanda in 2011 as a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Pittsburgh-based university renowned for its engineering and technology programs.

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Will state surpluses lead to more higher ed funding?

Inside Higher Ed

Hobbs used a $5 billion budget surplus to propose significant funding increases for the state’s higher education institutions, including $80 million for scholarships to low-income and DACA students in the state. million, which amounts to another roughly 1 percent increase. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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Vice-President, AAUP, 2012-18, 2019-20; Chair, AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2012 2021; Chair, AAUP Foundation, 2013-2021. Now the University of Florida, which has 90 times as many students, has only 37 baseball players at all class levels on scholarship. [00:20:56] Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof.

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Educational gag orders are a student rights issue (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

According to his mother, it caused Blake to have traumatizing nightmares; she complained to The Washington Post in 2013, “I’m not thinking my kid is going to be reading a book with bestiality.” Will we stand for edicts that ban the teaching and learning of race, sexuality, women’s studies and slavery? I think it is.

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