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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Dr. Sol Gittleman Gittleman, who is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Emeritus, has emerged as one of the nation’s most important interpreters of the history of higher education.

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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Our University has much to honor and celebrate for Native American Heritage Month

UW Presidential Blog

Our University’s longstanding ties and deep connections to Washington Tribes and Indigenous communities are an important part of our identity that is reflected across our campuses – in our students who study here, in faculty research and scholarship, in art and architecture, in our campus culture and in the history of the land we occupy.

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Dr. Yolanda Pierce Named Dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I have long heard about the school’s rich history as an advocate for racial and social justice, and I look forward to building on the strong foundation that Emilie Townes and others have established to form this treasured community.”

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English Australia celebrates four decades

The PIE News

The paper pointed to the long history of English teaching in the country, including to migrants and refugees who arrived after World War Two, and then through the national Adult Migrant English Program from 1948. Nine colleges formed an informal group of ELICOS providers that became The ELICOS Association in 1983.

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Hamline University President to Retire Following Islamophobia Controversy

Insight Into Diversity

The email did not mention the contentious January incident in which an art history lecturer, after giving warnings to students, showed images of the Prophet Muhammad in class, leading to a national debate about religious intolerance and academic freedom on campuses. “We Miller has been president of the university since 2015.

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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. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.