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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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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. Moore is the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor in materials science and engineering at the university’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,

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NBC's Lester Holt to Serve as Commencement Speaker for Villanova University’s Class of 2023.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Holt will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. In 2019, he led the Emmy-nominated series, “Justice for All.” Lester Holt The event will take place 2:30 p.m. May 19, in Villanova Stadium. Holt is managing editor of the award-winning show "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt" and anchor of “Dateline NBC.”

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Montana State nursing college receives $2.6 million to combat lack of health care providers in rural communities

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Department of Health and Human Services. MSU received its first ANEW grant in 2019, and it was recently renewed for $2.6 All but two of Montana’s 56 counties are classified as health care professional shortage areas, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. Read more from Montana State University.

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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. She is co-founder and co-director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center at the University of California, Davis.

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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

According to the report, written by editor Leland Renato Grigoli, the availability of jobs from 2016–17 to 2019–20 had been stable, as had the relative ratios of tenure-track, non-tenure-track and nonteaching jobs. Of these 634 jobs, 358 were on the tenure track, an increase from both 2020–21 and 2019–20.

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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Likewise, we have witnessed frustration by teachers for the same reasons. Dr. Donna Y.

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