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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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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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Georgetown and Howard Universities Awarded $3 Million for Medical Humanities Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.

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College Degree Still Sound Investment, Despite Rising Tuition

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

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By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Scholars have noted: the frequent absence of theory and short-term focus of such research ; the proximity of researchers to policy-makers which, it is argued, can make critical distance hard to achieve ; and the fragmentation of the field.

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Inside Higher Ed

Thus, racial and class bias can be embedded in the policies, practices, and norms of institutions and organizations, and can result in unequal access to opportunities, resources, and power for individuals and groups. Blacks in every age group have significantly higher rates of diabetes, strike, heart disease, and death.

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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

Conservative groups, politicians and organizations launched a coordinated attack on DEI in higher education in 2023, in some cases disrupting these programs established to promote fairness and student success, and to address decades of exclusionary policies and practices in higher education. Remember the why.