Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Few words carry as much interpretive weight as “agency.”

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Arts or Science? Why arts at Guelph? See [link].

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Although UC has provided pathways to social mobility for countless Californians, those efforts took place over the past three decades in environments that were often hostile to equity and inclusion. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer While Michigan is synonymous with mobility when it comes to manufacturing vehicles of all shapes and sizes, every Michigander knows that a car is only as good as the road it is driven on—and we also know that many of Michigan’s highways have fallen into disrepair.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

I have been told that this is a vestige from a time when early scholars had a nook in their sleeves to keep their hands warm in unheated medieval environments. I thought it would be timely to share some of the arcana that arises most frequently in those conversations. There are different robes for each degree. Doctoral robes in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” Variations of that classic line can be found in the Marx Brothers’ nihilistic comedy Duck Soup , a 1948 column by the syndicated advice giver Dorothy Dix and more recently by Richard Pryor and Cher. Much of what people claim to know rests on trust and deference. On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There’s a pervasive sense among many adults with humanities degrees that In the wake of deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodernism, semiotics and the cultural, linguistic and discursive turns, literary studies, in particular, like other core humanities disciplines, is in deep trouble. The field is besieged. What happened?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It really will make my courses – one on the history of childhood, the other on museums, past, present, and future -- better. It really will make my courses – one on the history of childhood, the other on museums, past, present, and future -- better. I found the results thought-provoking. ” Again, not bad. Impressive.

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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. 60,000 a year programs for seniors that will let you call yourself a Harvard or Notre Dame fellow and help older workers plot encore careers and reflect on their work lives and find a sense of purpose.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Implementing Innovative Structures Innovation in higher education is not just about generating ideas; it’s about putting those ideas into action and breaking down structural barriers that no longer serve today’s diverse demographic. Innovation Beyond Ideas Innovation isn’t confined to brainstorming sessions and novel concepts.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As the first public university in the West, SJSU is the original startup of Silicon Valley and a nationally recognized urban-centered, community-based anchor institution leveraging its strategic location to foster an environment ripe for revolutionary and evolutionary change and growth. Not all news in higher education is doom and gloom.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In this high-stakes environment, universities must pivot from being mere dispensers of knowledge to creators of a unique educational journey that aligns with the aspirations and demands of a new generation of learners.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

22 August · Episode 169 Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges 25 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Discover the impact of president turnover on higher ed leadership. Explore causes, DEI, governance issues, and retention solutions. Brit” Kirwan of the University System of Maryland.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Octopuses and Tentacles.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” The Post then quotes a political science professor, who claims that the requirement portrays “the US as ‘inherently racist’ and tries to undermine the American identity that unifies all citizens by ‘creating groups and pitting them against each other. We all recall “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

The best instructors are passionate and engaging “My favorite college course has been Environment, Justice, and Cities. Reading Time: 14 minutes Colleen Zajac is a Senior Copywriter at Cengage with a zest for learning. She loves rock climbing, mountain biking and coffee—not necessarily in that order. What are the qualities of a great teacher?

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. As I outlined recently in my “ e-Literate’s Changing Themes for Changing Times ” post, I am shifting my coverage somewhat. And as it turns out, I know and respect one of the authors.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. Research’, first in the natural sciences, then in all subjects, only slowly became an expectation. We invite further blogs on the topic from other institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Even as we fixate on headline news, the true drivers of transformation occur out of sight. It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? What might we see?

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The Royal Society adopts the same wording.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment. Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of it reflects the news sources that I read or the Texas or academic environment in which I live. I thought, what with high rates of inflation, a depressed stock market, and lots of reports of crime, the Democratic party was about to face a red wave. I also thought the Russian military was far stronger than it was. Wrong again.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

I think it is fair to say that we are in the midst of a historic paradigm shift within the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. The report’s authors are, of course, intentionally confusing exposure to important ideas and concepts with indoctrination, propagandizing, and brainwashing.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Those are just a few of the words that two Fox News critics used in 2007 to describe Rupert Murdock’s agenda-driven rightwing propaganda machine in their riotously funny, profanity-laced takedown, Fair and Balanced My Ass! Leonard Downie Jr., Leonard Downie Jr., Yet Downie’s piece ignores a telling fact.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

With UK academics in the midst of 18 days of industrial action over pay, pensions, workload, and casualisation, we wanted to create a space to hear, understand, and engage meaningfully with different points of view around the strikes. ” Alexander Douglas, University of St Andrews Read more “I’m very proud to be striking.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Subjects important to conservatives, like military history, are rarely a focus, while subjects grounded in feminist and anti-racist perspectives are common. Subjects important to conservatives, like military history, are rarely a focus, while subjects grounded in feminist and anti-racist perspectives are common.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

16 January · Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers 39 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Insights on regulatory changes, negotiated rulemaking, NC SARA, and the impact on higher education mergers. Thinking about a merger? Listen in.

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