UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

From the very first graduate of the University of Washington to policymakers , scientists , entrepreneurs , educators and pathbreakers of all kinds, the UW has been home to countless women who have made – and are making – history.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Although we’re living in a more progressive society, racial discrimination and inequality can be felt by people of colour in the UK to this very day, emphasising the importance of honouring Black History Month. . So, what is Black History Month and why should you care about it? . The importance of Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma No longer can academic historians dismiss popular biographies or nonspecialist accounts of the past as low-powered history. But, of course, the purpose of many popular histories differs profoundly from those written by academics. ” None of that is true about the best nonacademic histories today.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Blog: Just Explain It to Me! In art history classes, more than one exasperated student has screamed at me, “It’s just a chair. ” All these responses and more have made me consider the question, “Can art be experienced or art history taught without someone becoming angry?” A chair isn’t art!

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Academe Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

POSTED BY THE AAUP The history of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) since its founding in 1915 has coincided with racial upheaval and transformation in the academy at large, from desegregation to current struggles for racial justice.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Part of what makes Black history such a compelling lens is the bravery and tenacity with which Black Americans have persevered to overcome staggering obstacles and oppression that were — and are — built into our nation’s systems and structures from its founding and continue to be a source of systemic inequity today.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This blog was authored by Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI. We are almost at the end of 2023, and you know what that means – we are due a round-up of the year’s most popular HEPI blogs. The year, we celebrated our 20th birthday and it has arguably been HEPI’s biggest yet, with more website views than any other year in our history.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Alice Pettigrew, a researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London. The letter’s signatories were far from alone in making such an appeal. Of course, this is a deeply contentious issue.

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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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Academe Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

BY HANK REICHMAN Last week I was scheduled to participate in a Round Table discussion of a recently published book, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History, edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene, in a session sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association at the Organization of American… (..)

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In this blog, my aim is to bring together a few exemplars of experiences by people of colour within academia. I am also reminded of my own experiences, too many to recount, one of which I recently shared on the HEPI blog.

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Academe Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

POSTED BY THE AAUP We are pleased to announce the publication of volume 13 of the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. Our fall 2021 call for papers, “Memory Laws or Gag Laws? Disinformation Meets Academic Freedom,” invited scholarly responses to the wave of legislation seeking to ban or restrict teaching about race and racism.

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HEPI

JUNE 20, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dame Professor Jessica Corner , Executive Chair of Research England. I talk about that principle in a blog I wrote for Wonkhe in late 2023. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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UW Presidential Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Northwest African American Museum : Showcasing African American art, history and culture in the PNW. Blackpast.org : Largest online encyclopedia on African American and Global African History on the Internet. We come together each February to celebrate Black history. Woodson in 1926 into Black History Month in 1960.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. Our recent series of blogs on AI intriguingly all had one argument in common, which is that we need to respond to AI in a nuanced, rather than blanket, way and to learn as we go.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E). Catherine Mason, an expert in this field, has delved into the history of this evolution, focusing on a central question: Will machines amplify or supersede the artist?

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Coursera blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As the fastest-growing technology in human history, it has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. The post Coursera Launches GenAI Academy to Improve Executive and Foundational Literacy appeared first on Coursera Blog. Launch partners include Microsoft, Stanford Online, Google Cloud, AWS, DeepLearning.AI

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean At a meeting over the weekend, a discussion arose around academic freedom. Free speech allows for irrelevance; if I want to publish a blog devoted entirely to weighing the artistic merits of Britney Spears’ early work as compared to her more recent stuff, I can’t be arrested for it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Jolanta Edwards , Director of Strategy at London Higher , and Susanna Kalitowski , Head of Policy at University Alliance. However, the NHS is under pressure like never before in its history. It is one of the institutions we treasure most as a nation. There are no easy or cheap fixes.

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Coursera blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Introduction to Cosmetic Science and Ingredients will ground learners in the history of the cosmetic industry while helping them understand key ingredients in various cosmetic products and how they affect the biological structure of the skin. Applications will become available in the coming months.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This blog was co-authored by Martin Betts, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Co-founder of HEDx, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University and Chair of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) , and Ceri Nursaw, CEO of NCEE. Get our updates via email.

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Academe Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

WILSON The presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT testified on Capitol Hill on December 5, 2023, at a hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,” and the bipartisan political backlash with demands for their resignations is unprecedented in the history of higher education, including the forced resignation of Penn president… (..)

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Academe Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

BY JENNIFER RUTH In April 2019, a friend and I visited the grave of Lin Zhao in Suzhou, China to pay respect to one of history’s bravest defenders of intellectual freedom. Scanning a hill dotted with around 300 gravestones, we saw three CCTV cameras trained on one spot and climbed to it. My friend snapped…

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This holiday provides an opportunity to honor and recognize the enduring legacies of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, while also shedding light on the often overlooked and misrepresented pieces of their history. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023 appeared first on Liaison.

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Coursera blog

MAY 11, 2023

from Rutgers University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in history and political science from Rutgers University. The post Coursera elevates Alan Cardenas to the role of General Counsel and Secretary appeared first on Coursera Blog. He holds a J.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.

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totallyrewired

JANUARY 27, 2024

This is quite a long blog post, much longer than I usually do but there is quite a lot to reflect on regarding the short course called the 12 Days of AI. Indeed, there is a long history of using machine learning and AI in creative spaces in art education in UK art schools.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2024

The 2018 report found that grades for, say, English and History are much less reliable than those for Maths and Physics. In Sherwood’s terms, the ‘fuzziness’ of the marks associated with English and History is greater than for Maths and Physics. Support from various media, notably the HEPI blog, gave him space to make his argument.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The history of ‘institutional autonomy’ The insistence on the importance of institutional autonomy has a long history. The second part will be published tomorrow.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

The governor’s “Anti-Wokeness” campaign threatens to eviscerate honest teaching of United States history and force people of color and the trans and LGBTQ+ communities to…

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This blog is in the form of an audio file by Nicole Cherruault, a journalist at The Times. Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. A full transcript is also provided below.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

program at UNT accepts traditional common core credits earned from community colleges (American history, political science, English, etc.) The post Your prior learning on Coursera may help you complete your bachelor’s degree at UNT appeared first on Coursera Blog. or other universities. But what makes the B.A.A.S

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For the first time in human history, individuals and organizations can manage and trade their assets digitally peer to peer. It examines current trends in leadership theory invoking several disciplines, including business, sociology, philosophy, history, and psychology. University of London | Consumption, Marketing and Culture.

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HEPI

JUNE 7, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Rob Cuthbert of the Practical Academics consultancy. Research by Dennis Sherwood (independent), discussed in a recent HEPI blog has shown that grades for GCSE and A-level examinations are unreliable: one grade in four is wrong.

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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. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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