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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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Personalised automation with human support: how Studee transforms the student journey

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At Studee, the online education agency, we’ve created a service that leverages advanced personalised automation combined with human support to provide a thorough, personalised journey for students that works seamlessly with university admission teams existing systems. Here’s how our new service is going to help universities and students. .

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Report: Little Movement on Pay Equity in Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed

A new report from College and University Professional Association for Human Resources released Thursday finds a lack of “meaningful progress” when it comes to pay equity for women and people of color in higher education, who continue to lag behind their white and male peers.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. That number is now over 60%.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. That number is now over 60%.

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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League. The impact was almost entirely concentrated among reading subskills that involve more analysis and argumentation.”

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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based Current tenure-track faculty members are up to 25 more times likely to have a parent with a Ph.D.