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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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The current state of learning in HESA graduate preparation programs: Curricular developments from the last decade.

ACPA

For example, the ACPA/NASPA Competencies document aims to “set out the scope and content of professional competencies required of student affairs educators in order for them to succeed within the current higher educational environment as well as projected future environments” (2015, p. By Renn & Reason, 2021). and globally…” (p.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most anticipated annual issues each January is the Emerging Scholars edition that features outstanding scholars of color breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals. White House Honoree, Jan. A Lifetime of Service,” Aug.

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Temple gets $11 million gift for students with disabilities

Inside Higher Ed

Zweig passed away in April 2015 and left detailed instructions in her will for how Leshner should distribute money Zweig made from investing and the sale of her firm—to donate to a cause focused on students with physical disabilities. Temple plans to begin awarding the scholarships this coming fall.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy. The first part was published yesterday and is available here.

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When Two Tribes go to war: How should universities respond to the criticisms of wokeness from Matthew Goodwin and others?

HEPI

He helped set up and run the Peter Thiel scholarships for young people. But one fact shines through: the so-called ‘anti-Rhodes scholarships’ over which Gibson presided are designed to highlight the uselessness of traditional higher education by funding a tiny handful (20) of extraordinary people without university degrees to succeed.