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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. As early as the program’s first course, students will be taught about policy issues, incarceration, criminal justice, and racial bias as it relates to cannabis, Poli said. "We

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

Cuts of the scale being threatened at universities including Goldsmiths, Lincoln and Sheffield Hallam will devastate local economies and cause long-term harm to key British industries like the creative arts.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Do we need to think differently about how we do, communicate, and incentivise research? Is there also a role for the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) to play in meeting future skills and workforce needs? There are many global challenges that we face.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

My long-term goal is to explore, confront and disrupt ableism (discrimination in favor of able-bodied people) in the context of nursing, applied health sciences and medical education,” said Jamal-Eddine, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing. “My

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

Sabrina Jamal-Eddine During her Bachelor of Science in Nursing studies, Sabrina Jamal-Eddine informed a clinical instructor about her back disability and lifting limitation as well as explaining that she could do everything but except lift a patient.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Politicians don’t want to talk about university funding – it’s toxic and there are no easy solutions,” Stephenson told The PIE. “But ensuring that our higher education system is funded sustainably is key to the UK’s growth and productivity. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A video highlight for an event presents information about an event in a short overview that makes it easy for audiences to glean critical takeaways. Continuing our tradition, we’re expanding on last year’s compilation of holiday videos and have curated a fresh list that will put you in the holiday mood.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This year, Notre Dame decided to do something different: a cybersecurity festival intended “to reach people’s hearts and minds in a way that would stick and draw them into it as a counterpart to mandatory training,” Grundy said. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020.

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HEPI

MAY 2, 2023

I’d argue that our current position is rigid, abstracted, partial, preclusive and often mechanical where it needs in all cases to be specifically the reverse. I’d argue that our current position is rigid, abstracted, partial, preclusive and often mechanical where it needs in all cases to be specifically the reverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Through research and writing about theater, Dr. Esther Kim Lee uncovers largely untold stories of Asian American history. “In I hope the students who study with me don’t just stop at learning about the violence, but what we can do to support each other. What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

2 response to a separate survey question about which faculty actions students believe would promote their academic success. By discipline, this concern is least prevalent among arts and humanities students (42 percent) and most common in the natural sciences (55 percent). This was the No. This was the No.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I was in total shock when I first learned about it,” said Dr. Linsey C. It's kind of a mixture of elation and excitement and good fortune, because there's so many people out there doing great research." “It's kind of a mixture of elation and excitement and good fortune, because there's so many people out there doing great research."

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Bored out of his mind by box checking introductory courses in the humanities, my correspondent wrote: “To many STEM students the truly “Great Books” were written by Physicists and Mathematicians.” Retractions.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

But as the sources are generally from the US, the book provides a reminder that these lessons are not limited to the UK or to our own labour market and productivity challenges. Indeed, we are told Grow with Google online certificates ‘aren’t intended to prepare people to work at Google itself.’ Upskilling and reskilling.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Rain not only nourishes, but it balances us, and makes us question our devotion to blue skies. I know, I’m going on too long about the rain (I’m just so happy to see it), but it has got me thinking about the kind of balance we try to achieve in all educational settings. It is raining today in Connecticut.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Our students need to understand fully the historical underpinnings and current ideologies that continue to sustain this imbalance. We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Journal of Public Health defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.” The pandemic has brought increased awareness of healthcare disparities.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

To help our students move forward, America’s schools and colleges need to turn away from constant drilling for tests and a fixation on “coverage,” the notion that skimming across vast swaths of curriculum somehow makes for a good education. Textbooks and computers are substitutes for people, not ends in themselves.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“What is worth more,” asked one of the young militants, “art or life? … Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?” Art or life? How much they may overlap with those of a science or history museum is not addressed.).

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2023

The decision will place 169 faculty positions in jeopardy, or about 7% of its Morgantown campus cohort. Its first response to this information was to combine the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and the College of Education and Human Services in May 2021. It’s focused on elimination.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The historical reality that many of these institutions displayed was highly biased, overemphasizing elites, prosperous farmers and planters, and pioneers and reinforcing cultural myths about progress and American exceptionalism.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts claimed that 28 million Americans (two-thirds women) had read a poem in the last year and CNN proclaims that “Poetry is experiencing a new golden age,” one would have to have a heart of stone not to scoff.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

A: The idea really, is how Americans think about education—what we want it to do. And if you could do that, you wouldn’t have to worry about all these other social reforms—doing things about the minimum wage, labor rights, progressive taxation. Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.”

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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? How about both!

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Christina Katopodis is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transformative Learning in the Humanities at the City University of New York (CUNY). If we were on a Zoom call and I told you we were about to get into breakout rooms , how stressed would you feel? Would you stay on the call, or would you jump off?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

People found her methods to be highly effective. Then the 2016 election happened, and our political and cultural divisions became even deeper. We feel the effects of it deeply in higher education because faculty, staff and students across the country are still trying to create a public sphere in which reasonable people can disagree.

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HEPI

APRIL 29, 2024

Here we share a frame and some insights based on our experience. We hope this will be helpful to others in these roles facing decisions about priorities for leadership attention. HEPI is hosting a webinar on student maintenance support next Thursday 9th May to mark the launch of a major new report. You can sign up here.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about becoming the first new leader in decades, the nature of servant leadership, how higher ed can shape the future, and how self-care is vital in doing her work effectively. She shared her perspective about filling his shoes: "I'd set aside how long the previous leader had been there.

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