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Support for Educators Is All Around

Today's Learner

While faculty are in academia because we love making a positive difference in students’ future growth and development, we are only human. Colleagues, administrators, friends, and family One of the most valuable connections we have is our network. And let us not forget that our administrators are a valuable part of our network.

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

He said, “I am growing tired of standing on principle while watching academia get sacked by latter-day Visigoths,” and, “This is war and our job is to vanquish them.” If there is a movement afoot, that’s where the energy is.”

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. Blacks “have experienced greater gains in securing administrative positions than faculty” appointments. Black women have made more advancements in administrative positions than Black men.

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? Perhaps that’s part of why the number of U.S.

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A Brief History: Black Americans in Higher Education

Today's Learner

John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) created Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia as a historian and professor. Blacks “have experienced greater gains in securing administrative positions than faculty” appointments. Black women have made more advancements in administrative positions than Black men.

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Should professors still record lectures? Maybe. Maybe not

Inside Higher Ed

“I am recording all of my classes to encourage students who do not feel well to stay home,” Ann Bartow, law professor at the University of New Hampshire, wrote in an email. “Nobody at my law school is wearing masks and covid remains extant. ” Professors today are in a period of transition.

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Defending Central European University and Academic Freedom: Elements of an Initial Response

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She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at New York University Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Her main field of expertise and research is international and European human rights law, particularly on freedom of expression. Communications.