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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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How Two Colleges Are Responding to the Race-Conscious Admissions Ban

Insight Into Diversity

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? How has the decision impacted your institution’s policies and practices?

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The War on DEI

Insight Into Diversity

In Florida and Texas, 2023 has brought a wave of proposed policies, leadership firings and new appointments, and political maneuverings designed to stifle DEI initiatives and closely related higher education offices. This, in turn, would have a major impact on federal and foundation funding as well as an institution’s reputation.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

This denial of economic opportunity causes a well-intentioned policy to fail to live up to its economic and humanitarian aspirations. Instead, let’s look at this purely from a policy perspective. Canada’s labor shortages are hardly unique, as anyone who has been paying attention to the US economy knows.

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Teaching and Thinking with Technology

Faculty Focus

Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. However, technology contains multitudes of weaknesses which have been documented and analyzed in recent years, first in academia and now even in popular media.

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Two-year colleges strain to hire instructors in technical fields

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges across the country are having similar issues recruiting professors, particularly in career and technical education fields such as nursing, computer programming and automotive technology, where potential instructors can often find better pay outside academia.

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A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.' Those perspectives absolutely help me understand how we create a great board relationship.