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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.

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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Her mother taught Simmons and her siblings what it meant to be a human being. In September, Dr. Ruth J. Dr. Ruth J.

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Only 6% of American college students study abroad

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Among them are the prestigious Fulbright Program and Gilman International Scholarship Program, the latter of which is open exclusively to college students receiving federal Pell Grants. She has oversight of multiple departments, including Human Resources, Administrative Services, Communications, and Higher Education Initiatives.

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Using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Framework to Examine an Authentic Project-based Research Symposium

Faculty Focus

Research questions and methodology Professors from a private, midwestern university from five departments: Social Work, Sociology, Human Services, Psychology and Education (SHaPE) collaborated to have their undergraduate students participate in a research symposium, which were part of their homework assignments. Martini, T.S.,

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Teaching students to think beyond themselves

Inside Higher Ed

For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University’s Program for Leadership and Character has attracted interest from other institutions since its founding in 2017. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest.

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A sectorwide approach to higher ed's future (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Thriving students and impactful scholarship go hand in hand. Burwell has been president of American University since 2017. Department of Health and Human Services from 2014 to 2017 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014. There are three elements to this approach.

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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

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