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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. At my university, the provost has put in place a prerecorded self-paced, self-directed asynchronous U.S.

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Navigating the AI revolution in higher education: a call to action

HEPI

Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022. In academia we still place a great deal of emphasis in scholarship on the capacity to recall and recite.

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Dr. Corey D. B. Walker Appointed Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Walker Walker, a scholar of religion, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and ordained American Baptist clergyperson, has been the school’s interim dean since January. Walker has become dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately. Dr. Corey D.

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Dr. “Grace” Jinliu Wang Appointed President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” “WPI is a world-class institution with a unique and vital approach to teaching, learning, and discovery.

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The Program Went On As Planned

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, as Black women in academia, many of us, otherwise strangers to her, felt it too. The pain of their deaths is not unlike the experiences Black women in academia have long endured. deGregory Obviously, no one felt and feels this loss more keenly than Epps’ family, friends, and close colleagues.

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Iran forces dissenters out of universities

Inside Higher Ed

Reports of scholars being retired early or dismissed indicate that the Iranian government has ordered a cleansing of academia in the wake of protests that have gripped the country since September. Demonstrations were triggered by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who was accused of wearing her hijab “improperly.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.