Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. history, writes that “If we believe that historical thinking and knowledge should inform public policy, then we need to make our work accessible to policymakers and influencers.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. A tragic moment in history propelled the theoretical physicist’s decision to attend MIT for graduate school and to bring about meaningful change as a leader. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This time, I was fortunate to have an adviser, coaches and a myriad of mentors who didn’t allow me to retrench into my skewed perceptions of myself. This past fall, we welcomed the largest first-year class in our history—at a time when college enrollment is dropping nationwide. But I was lucky.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The college centers the histories, traditions, cultures, experiences, struggles, and accomplishments of diasporic communities of color, making connections between the local and transnational. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York. to offer scholarships to DACA students.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In sum, we seem to be edging closer to repeating the history of rail privatisation. By January 2019 we had resorted to more football analogies (No 35 Academia: the beautiful game? ): … m ore research is needed. Then academia could be a beautiful game. It may not be Virgin territory, but is higher education on the right track?”

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