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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tressie McMillan Cottom McMillan Cottom is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill and a senior principal researcher at UNC’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. She is also a columnist for the New York Times, an award-winning author, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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The SRHE Digital University Network: A Decade of Trends and Future Directions

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by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Janja is published internationally on higher education policy, markets and education technology.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

His father was a doctor who worked at the local hospital, but it was bombed in 2015. After UoPeople’s first seeking-accreditation visit in 2021, WSCUC commended the institution for “embracing innovative concepts in the use of technology, community, and infrastructure.” ’” LeBlanc said.

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Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

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Gordon Marsden, former Shadow Higher Education, Further Education, and Skills Minister and a co-founder of Right to Learn, chaired the event and Professor Graeme Atherton from NEON/ University of West London and also a Right to Learn co-founder was in the audience. Women accounted to just 6.7

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

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Or might the Euro-UK equivalent of Singapore’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), in a similar location, be a creative post-Brexit option? Or might an equivalent of Cornell Tech NYC be worth creating in European higher education and research space?

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State of Black America Report Focuses on Extremism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If we do not interrupt it, then our efforts to impact issues like economic policy and education policy will be academic exercises.” The technology revolution did not include black people, and therefore, we had a digital divide. The report also includes a special section about environmental justice.

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