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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. from Arizona State University in Psychology.

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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. Stone Professor of Law and director of the University of Washington School of Law's Native American Law Center. Monte Mills is the Charles I.

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

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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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Universities on Fire

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On this week’s episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast , Bryan Alexander joins us to talk about his new book, Universities on Fire, Higher Education in the Climate Crisis , which was published in March by Johns Hopkins University Press. AU: Bryan, you’ve written a book about universities and the climate crisis.

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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. What I found was an invaluable network of faculty from around the nation in various disciplines and from multiple types of colleges and universities. But what about us? Interested, I applied.

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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. For many liberal arts colleges as well as humanities-focused departments in larger universities, it’s a pressing one. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums?

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Should professors still record lectures? Maybe. Maybe not

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person attendance. “Nobody at my law school is wearing masks and covid remains extant. Louis, said.

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