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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tressie McMillan Cottom wants her work to meet people where they are, and to do so, she uses many platforms and intersects multiple disciplines. Culture is this place where we try to make sense of a really complex world in our own little local context,” says McMillan Cottom. However, her strategy is simple ; she starts with culture.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

The HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) provides comprehensive information about the academic background and employment destinations of graduates who chose to complete the GOS 15 months after completing their studies. Recent data from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 academic years indicate that 4.8 percentage points, respectively).

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Meredith College offers employees low-cost Italian getaway

Inside Higher Ed

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Meredith—whose study abroad program has long occupied a 16th-century palazzo in Sansepolcro, Tuscany—first offered this kind of trip to employees in 2017. It offered a second opportunity in 2019. The pandemic put things on hold.

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Painting and shaping Learning Landscapes with Assemblages in mind

SRHE

An alertness to relations and flux can sharpen our perception, but can an assemblage sensibility inform better architecture? Points plucked from the talks Carol Taylor’s keynote made a persuasive case for connecting Deleuzian thinking about assemblages with a broad set of posthuman perspectives. Landscapes are both depicted and made.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Inside Higher Ed

While the National Endowment for the Arts2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

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Why ‘talking tertiary’ must not come at the expense of our world-leading research credentials

HEPI

Diana was previously Policy Advisor to three Ministers the last time Universities, Science, Research and Innovation were in the same portfolio. As CEO of London Higher, I am conscious that our organisation has the privilege of representing a rich diversity of members not even shared by Universities UK (UUK).

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Liberal Arts and Servile Arts

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.