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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

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Image: A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. ” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn.

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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Inside Higher Ed

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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Field of study not key to new academic program success

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Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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College Board Unveils New AP African American Studies Course

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public high schools last year. “I I have no issue with College Board putting African American Studies into practice in high schools,” said Dr. Marvin T Chiles, an assistant professor of African American history at Old Dominion University. Strayhorn, a professor of higher education at Illinois State University. “As

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Student Loans, Basic Needs and the Public Good

Inside Higher Ed

I was a full Pell recipient when I was an undergraduate student at Michigan State University in the mid- to late 1980s. This reality is no longer possible for the overwhelming majority of our students, and, as many have pointed out, it hasn’t been for a long time. I also qualified for a full Michigan Competitive Scholarship.

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Inside Higher Ed

” The result: To discourage students from learning and thinking “critically about the connection between the design of our institutions and the uneven way in which opportunity and resources are meted out in America.” Case in point: Healthcare. Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. Why is this the case?