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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2016, I traveled overseas to teach two general education courses at Carnegie Mellon University’s campus in Qatar. In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. and presented it to the department chair who in turn presented it to the dean, Dr. Marshall Stevenson. Newson-Horst commends Dr. Ida E.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Ratings and bias against women, over time

Inside Higher Ed

Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management and associate dean of academic affairs at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of the second article, said, “Our findings show that women are rated significantly lower as they age from younger to middle age, with their lowest teaching ratings emerging at age 47.