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Internationalizing Black American History

Inside Higher Ed

How we view the past is always colored by our present-day vantage point, but long before the recent surge in Black migration from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, African American history and culture had an international dimension. Comparative, transnational, and diasporic history can take many different forms.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history. In New York City?

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Would Free College Boost Humanities Majors?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Toldson, a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in 1971. Seven decades ago, U.S. Dr. Ivory A.

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How will technology change education in the future?

HEPI

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’.

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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. It’s a history that must be told and folks are doing it—but Dunn does it at a risk to himself and the people he teaches.” Mellon Foundation.

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Research with international students: reflecting on an SRHE 2022 symposium

SRHE

We were pleased to lead a symposium of international authors at the 2022 SRHE conference, focusing on Research with International Students: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations. Research with international students is a significant and growing area of research about higher education.

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