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Should professors still record lectures? Maybe. Maybe not

Inside Higher Ed

Many students still participated in the live class, and they shared thoughts about the policy in conversation and end-of-semester course evaluations. Amid this debate, learning and classroom policies are morphing in real time. “Nobody at my law school is wearing masks and covid remains extant. Louis, said.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Throughout 2022, Ball State University has made significant progress on its five-year Inclusive Excellence Plan, which aims to advance broad DEI goals across the university, including campus culture, policies and infrastructure, and recruitment and retention. Building Pathways to Academia — Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Protecting Tribal Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Carpenter, Council Tree Professor of Law, and director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. Two structural things are helpful in getting more Native Americans interested in attending law school, Fletcher notes. On Indigenous Peoples Day (Oct.

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Universities on Fire

HESA

The second half of this interview in particular provides some really interesting insight into issues of what enablers are required for academia to really turn the corner on CO 2 emissions. Think about Lewis and Clark College, out in the west coast of the US for example or the Vermont Law School, in Vermont, which is explicitly very green.

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Stanford academic freedom event proceeds amid controversy

Inside Higher Ed

Scott Atlas, Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at Hoover, who was denounced by colleagues for his stances on COVID-19 mitigation as a senior adviser to the Trump White House, said he wanted a public apology, not for himself, but “to make sure this never happens again.

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

GlobalHigherEd

Editor’s note : this guest entry, also posted on Inside Higher Ed , has been kindly developed by Sejal Parmar , Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. Manning, the Morgan and Helen Chu dean and professor of law at Harvard Law School, told Harvard Law Bulletin. She was 67. secretary of education, on Twitter.