UW Presidential Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Events & Resources Seattle Latino Film Festival Seattle guide to Latino/a/x cultural heritage The Burke Museum Latine Student Union at UW Latinx Faculty & Staff Association Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center ’s collection includes several murals by Latine artists, including “Somos Aztlan” by Chicano artist Emilio Aguayo.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His scholarly focus is on African American religion, philosophy, history, and culture. These cross-school relationships and with areas like Wake the Arts and Campus Life have resulted in remarkable offerings that greatly enrich the intellectual life of our university.” He also co-directed documentary film, “Fifeville.”

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

We invited further comments on the proposal to expand the People, Culture and Environment (PCE) element of the exercise. There will also be a survey gathering input from across the sector on the development of people, culture and environment indicators. We have recently published our revised timetable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?” It changed her life, and she told States that she wanted to continue studying with him, which she did, earning a master’s degree in dramatic arts from UC Santa Barbara and then a Ph.D. Lee found the harsh comments about the show lacking in context and cultural insight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With courses ranging from “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity” and “Contemporary Issues in the Black Community” to “The Black Arts Movement” and “The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement,” students at Massasoit can now pursue the interdisciplinary degree at the two-year school, both online and in-person.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask ChatGPT why you should read fiction and it will spout literature’s many benefits: entertainment, increased empathy, cognitive stimulation and learning about different cultures, historical events and social issues. As New York Times film critic A. But what about chronic illness, disability or aging?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Schupf Art Center last month, an $18 million project developed in partnership with Waterville Creates , a nonprofit organization that promotes accessible arts and cultural programs, according to a news release from the college. Schupf Art Center. And that can only be good for Waterville and Colby in the long run.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shankar Mahadevan, a household name in India who has composed songs for over 60 Indian films, said at an international school event that Goa should be a “cultural hub”. A renowned Indian musician has called for Indian province of Goa to open a music academy for both “Indian and international students alike”.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

We know that our students are culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse. We have also compiled a short list of culturally responsive moves that, when sustained throughout the semester, help build community in the classroom when paired with intentionality around tone. Their gender identities are varied. They are neurodiverse.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. “The culture industry is alive and well. English is the place to train to be a content creator or a cultural worker.” The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities over all fell 14.1

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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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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

link] ◾ In hiring news, we are excited to welcome Ann Vandergust to the College of Arts! She is delighted to be (re)joining the College of Arts and sends her regards as she is looking forward to meeting you all – both old friends (Hi Matthew et al.!) Ann will be joining us as the Manager, Facilities and Operations. and new colleagues.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Still, out of the many unforgettable characters I’ve had the enormous privilege of interacting with, one who stands out was the late Peter Marzio, who directed the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for nearly thirty years. A born impresario, he believed in his heart and soul that his museum should serve as the city’s cultural heart.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

We know that our students are culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse. We have also compiled a short list of culturally responsive moves that, when sustained throughout the semester, help build community in the classroom when paired with intentionality around tone. Their gender identities are varied. They are neurodiverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. It’s the culture of an R1.” The college’s dean, Dr. David E.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A majority of LLCs are centered around academics: prehealth, engineering, business, honors , ROTC or music and performing arts. California State University, Northridge—Cinema Television Arts LLC Lights, camera, LLC, action!

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

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. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

Today we showcase Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign. Artist and Art Instructor Nate Wilson discusses the inspiration for the redesign, the partnership between course instructor, instructional design team, and an Elder from one of the Native American tribes in the area.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The only other laid-off professor—not counting professors who were planning to retire or who resigned—taught film studies, which had been flagged for reconfiguration. “Why was Chinese language and culture cut? Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? The numbers don’t support the decision.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. Over the past 10 months, a number of U.S. Joseph University , a Catholic institution of about 2,000 students in Cincinnati.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 2, 2023

Language courses for international students and faculty members should also be available at branch campuses so faculty, staff, and students can truly interact with and understand the local culture and context. Faculty and staff must adhere to local cultural sensitivities, rules, and expectations of the people. This was a challenge.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What exists in Arabic in terms of Sunday school curricula, youth work materials, and home Bible studies is largely translation from English, often poorly translated and culturally inappropriate. The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning. Wilson, L., Ho, S., & Brookes, R.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

My impression is that many faculty members, irrespective of their politics, do worry about the lack of ideologically diversity on campus and self-censorship in the face of “cancel culture.” Ditto for quantitative or digital skills or for comparative, cross-cultural perspectives.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The backlash against the Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin who was recently filmed dancing with her friends suddenly brought her professionalism into question. Freire, P (1972) Cultural action for freedom Ringwood: Penguin. Known for her empathic leadership , this act of having fun became something that went against her.

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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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Dan Cohen

MARCH 17, 2021

In a wonderful new article , film and television scholar Jason Mittell provides an extremely creative, occasionally bizarre, frequently hilarious, and ultimately rather helpful “inventory of deformative practices” to uncover hidden layers of meaning in media. In its absurdity it also reveals the deeply manic nature of the film.

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Echo Delta

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And there were a couple clients I said, you should not be giving tours because your campus looks like you could film the walking dead or any other post-apocalyptic genre on that campus. And it’s never the state-of-the-art rock climbing wall or computer lab. But I think that has improved with the fall semester.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

JANUARY 23, 2023

I also need to state clearly that this should not be at the expense of liberal arts education. As I work with my colleagues to imagine how best to weave micro-credentials and meaningful applied learning experiences into our liberal arts curriculum, I want to be sure that we also attend to the magic.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Develop a healthy skepticism about how popular culture depicts the past while learning how to assess the games’ accuracies and inaccuracies. Of special interest to Wainwright is what video games teach about contingency and the value of counterfactual speculation.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

But Transylvania, we are a private liberal arts institution. And to have a team like that to go through these times was to me very gratifying because at the end of the day, it’s all about the culture. And you can have the best strategic plans put in place, but I always say to our team, culture eats strategy for breakfast.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Her arguments evoke the work of Marshall McLuhan in the linking of our media not just to cultural practice but to the development of the biological self. I was also intrigued by the work of Eva Berger as she explored ideas about the ways in which ideas of the self are reshaped (erased?) These conditions are not mutually exclusive.

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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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SRHE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Laughable, too, that his contemporary James Baldwin (1924-1987) analysed love in its full range of possibilities, including erotic, platonic and familial, as well as relating to racial justice and the arts. I called this ‘artful leadership’, where artists catalyse change beyond the remit of art and design.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With films like Dr. Strangelove and The Producers , the 1960s saw the advent of black comedy , which treated serious subjects with morbid humor. Culture clash action comedies including Beverly Hills Cop and Crocodile Dundee. Mom , Trading Places, and Coming to America. Gross-out comedies like Bachelor Party.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1997, Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture , published a blistering critique of the impact of identity politics on the museum world. A recent book by Daniel H.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

In a scathing resignation letter , King accused Bergeron of bullying and creating a “toxic administrative culture of fear and intimidation” that left people afraid of crossing her. Now students, faculty and staff have united in opposition to the president, demanding her resignation.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Already well trained by the Sisters of Loretto in the art of proper research, I knew Roots was only a start. Always my first thought was to ensure my children were educated in the art of critical thinking as I had been. Roots isn’t “history.” ” It’s historical fiction; it’s broad outlines.

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