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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Resolutions and Safe Spaces — Adelphi University. Adelphi University’s Office of Community Concerns and Resolution was established in fall 2021 to simplify and enhance the system for reporting discrimination, bias, and abuse. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College.

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Today's Learner

MAY 8, 2023

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? Most of us can’t forget the instructor who taught our favorite class. The one who got the lessons to stick. I’m not crying.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

She co-founded the Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee, which proposed and won an on-site childcare center and which continues to sponsor events on women’s issues in science. The institution even erected a multimedia display wall of 60 “trailblazing” female faculty members last summer.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The latest book to suggest how college faculty might draw upon the science of learning to strengthen their teaching and make their classes more inclusive, equitable, effective, and student-centered is Cathy N. ” In addition, active learning instills skills that lectures cannot, from critical thinking to collaboration.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In its prime, middlebrow culture filled the gap between the avant-garde and kitsch, garish, overly sentimental and tasteless, schlock and between elite and pulp fiction, ivory tower, egghead academic writing and trash and art music and popular tunes and jingles.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Go to most campuses and a conventional, unimaginative, standardized approach to education is the norm: A college education consists of 60 or 120 credit hours, a 15 week-long semester, distribution requirements, a department-based major, and 3 or 5 credit hour lecture, seminar, and laboratory courses. Sure, there are exceptions.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

The allure of the novel, the newfangled, the groundbreaking and the state-of-the-art can also lead us down a primrose path. Here, I’d like to discuss the history of general education: its rise, fall, current status and need to be radically rethought and reimagined. In most cases, that imagined past turns out to be bogus.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. ” Ugh.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons. ’ People had to take whatever they could get.”

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