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Internationalizing Black American History

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. 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. Who is a Black American? DuBois, John Hope Franklin, Michael A.

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Why We Should Worry About the Decline of American Intellectual History as a Field of Study

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Empires are not the only entities that rise and fall. Even though American intellectual history as a research field persists, replete with journals, professional societies, exemplary scholars like Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen and big books, it has certainly shifted from the center to the periphery of the discipline.

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‘Newsroom Confidential’ and 5 Parallels Between Journalism and Academia

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life by Margaret Sullivan. Published in October 2022. Real worries about the long-term financial viability of our industries as currently constructed. Navigating a challenging new reality of big tech competition, partnership and control.

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How does a modern university seek purpose?

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This blog was co-authored by Martin Betts, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Co-founder of HEDx, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University and Chair of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) , and Ceri Nursaw, CEO of NCEE.

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What’s Really Wrong with the College Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. College ratings take various forms.

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About Those Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting I am not an employee of Inside Higher Ed and have precisely zero influence of what appears on its virtual pages – with the obvious exception of this blog – but nonetheless, I felt a little frisson of pride when reading Scott Jaschik’s introduction to IHE’s coverage of this year’s release of the U.S.

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SRHE News on Publishing: reports from April 2023

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert One of the benefits of SRHE membership is exclusive access to the quarterly newsletter, SRHE News , www.srhe.ac.uk/publications/srhe-newsletter. SRHE News typically contains a round-up of recent academic events and conferences, policy developments and new publications, written by editor Rob Cuthbert.