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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

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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What Does Faith Look Like in Higher Education?

Inside Higher Ed

Explaining or discussing faith can ignite heated, passionate and explosive debates in academia. Here are a few terms, very general definitions and some examples: Nonsecular: Privately funded institutions that align their identity and work with certain religious beliefs. Blog: Just Explain It to Me!

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Discounted tuition by major devalues the humanities (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The main reasons Tavárez cites for discounting humanities tuition are lower market value of the humanities, fewer job prospects for humanists, and lower research expenditure for humanities scholarship. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.

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AHA: See textbooks, op-eds, gaming as historical scholarship

Inside Higher Ed

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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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]