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President moves: Recent spate of leaders to announce retirement boast impressive résumés

University Business

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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

HEPI

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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“Not just a helicopter campus” – Coventry’s bid to maintain links with Wroc?aw campus

The PIE News

The first time The PIE referred to the word ‘Brexit’ in its news was in February 2016. Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. Lancaster looked to Leipzig in Germany and Coventry to Wrocław in western Poland.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Engaging Students in Research

Faculty Focus

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. 2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). Benefits and barriers.

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Engaging Students in Research

Faculty Focus

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. 2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). Benefits and barriers.