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‘The Last Chairlift’ and Other 2022 Fiction

Inside Higher Ed

Devotion to e-books seems to put me in the minority among my reading friends, most of whom seem to have gone back to paper. Connelly is my favorite police procedural author, and I’ll continue to read everything he publishes. Do you also find an author you like and read every new book they publish? Can’t wait.

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Honoring a Father's Diversity Legacy in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. I believe that Alfredo is best described as an anti-racist,” said Dr. Richard C. Alfredo de los Santos Jr.

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Leicester – A super diverse-city

HEPI

Our Colonial Countryside project based at the University of Leicester’s Centre for New Writing involves 100 primary pupils, predominantly of African, Caribbean, Chinese and South Asian heritage, along with authors and historians producing creative commissions, exploring country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections.

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Case Study in a CBE Ecosystem: Core Curriculum

eLiterate

Let’s start with the very basics of understanding the problem with this beautifully written passage by the authors: “To the best of your knowledge, about what percentage of the graduates of your primary college every year are vertical transfer students?” This article brings these two points together. I doubt most of her professors knew.

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Was 2022 a bumper year for books about education?

HEPI

Reeves’s book, which quotes HEPI’s work on the issue, proposes the – perhaps – counter-intuitive idea that boys should start school a year after girls: ‘The main reason for starting boys late’, Richard writes, ‘is not so that they will be a year older in kindergarten. It is so they will be a year older when they get to middle and high school.’

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Will Pandemic-Era Traumas Have Lasting Effects?

Inside Higher Ed

A recent book entitled Living on the Edge: An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century , by three well-known scholars of the life course—Richard A. The authors report exceedingly low levels of spousal communication and discover that many “couples did not have a single friend or activity in common.”

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Higher Ed Braces for Impact of Third-Party Service Regulation Expansion: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 149 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

Podcast Highlights The Dear Colleague says that the Department of Education will have the authority to look at the contracts and economic relationships between institutions and enterprises that provide them with services, including online program managers. The Department does not have that authority.