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King Day 2024 is Cancelled

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So I have decided King Day 2024 is cancelled. But the most obvious reason that King Day is cancelled on campus for 2024 is because of the tremendous cowardice that is running rampant in higher education. In a 1959 speech at the University of Iowa, King shared the following: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

28 to July 2024, across multiple campus sites. Alongside the opening, there will be a two-day symposium, “Voices of Mass Incarceration,” about law enforcement, prison medical care, public art, incarceration’s effects on women and girls, and the history of incarceration. The event will take place Sept.

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. During her 23 years at the helm, more than $1.25

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.