EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps as an undergraduate you read Oscar Wilde’s mirthful, satiric essay “The Critic as Artist.” Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many attendees were members of at least one of the organizations—and often only one. But the community’s understanding of “joint” changed in late 2018 when the two organizations, in carefully worded emails, posts and tweets, announced their conscious uncoupling. Some were unfazed by the split.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma As psychological anthropologist Nat Kendall-Taylor recently noted , When the College Board revised the draft African American studies curriculum, it removed the word “systemic.” Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry. Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma David Copperfield (1850), the most autobiographical of Charles Dickens’s novels, begins with one of literature’s most famous lines: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. You perhaps recall that Bentham asked that after his death his remains be preserved, dressed in his own clothes.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

This blog has been compiled by Sam Elkington, Jill Dickinson, and Sinéad Murphy (SRHE Conferences and Events Manager.) Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. How do we effectively build in ideas of working with spatiality into our learning and teaching strategies?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I, like you, have no doubt asked ChatGPT, the open AI-powered text generator, to respond to some questions and been dazzled by the results. I asked ChatGPT to draft syllabi for two of my upcoming courses to see how its recommendations differ from my own course outlines. I found the results thought-provoking. Impressive.

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HEPI

MAY 13, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabel Dukes, Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. The humanities are the study of the arts, history, language, religion and philosophy. By contrast, the potential for humanities research knowledge to contribute to society is overlooked and underexploited.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Aren’t there ways to give many more undergraduates the advantages currently reserved for honors students?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way. The challenges that literary studies faces are evident to anyone who cares to look. The field has fragmented.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Their conclusions were indeed highly critical: Financial and institutional considerations too often resulted in a bland, insipid and wishy-washy portraits of the past. In the years since Leon and Rosenzweig’s volume was published, history museums and historic sites have undergone a reckoning of, yes, historic proportions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” ” But what about some other headlines that are much more inflammatory or offensive. ” Or Alec Baldwin: “Dolt 45.”

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GlobalHigherEd

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly reinterpreting fragile and easily forgotten knowledge. When I started graduate studies more than 25 years ago, there was no talk of the world wide web, no blogs, no Twitterverse, Facebook, Academia.edu and so on.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. More than that, these initiatives express a broader turn in humanities and social science scholarship away from the cultural, postmodern, and post-structuralist turns that dominated anthropology, geography, history, literature, political science, and sociology since the mid- and late-1970s.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Earlier this week, I focused on how the pandemic altered how academics work. Now, let’s talk about how academics and universities are changing to prepare students for the workforce. I’m drawing from new research from Coursera. The modern workplace now requires new skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. Priorities conflict.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Historians sometimes describe the social sciences as theory rich but often data poor. They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Discussions of pedagogy, instructional design, technology integration, and assessment are no longer confined to K-12 teachers. Even more striking: Instructor-centered classrooms were nearly as common in seminars and discussion classes as it was in lecture courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The four-year graduation rate at the Cal State campuses reached a record high—33 percent—in 2021. A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The conservative Manhattan Institute recently published a report that argues that the promotion of Social Justice ideology in K-12 schools and colleges is having a measurable impact on students’ political views and partisan leanings. What we are witnessing instead is a culture-wide shift in discourse.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Outrageous. Outlandish. Mendacious, malevolent, misleading. Dishonest, disingenuous, deceitful. Skewed, slanted, shoddy. Today, in contrast, defenses of news media objectivity – reporting undistorted by personal beliefs, bias, feelings or prejudice -- are much harder to find. Leonard Downie Jr., Leonard Downie Jr.,

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