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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A: We’re all in the business of encouraging academic and personal formation, but we’re also navigating the tensions facing higher ed right now.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

Academic freedom under attack. The older bargain – that if doctoral students play by the traditional rules, they will get an academic job – has broken down. The older bargain – that if doctoral students play by the traditional rules, they will get an academic job – has broken down.

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Weekend Reading: Becoming An Academic Manager

HEPI

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by GatenbySanderson , a people advisory firm which works with HE leaders. Academic leaders at this level play a pivotal role in disciplinary leadership, strategy development, business planning and in leading change. We are incredibly grateful to everyone we spoke to for their honesty and insights.

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Does the multiplication of alternative providers call for a new review of higher education?

HEPI

Last week, HEPI published a new Policy Note on the Robbins Report and this blog is in a series we are running to mark the 60th anniversary of the Report’s publication in October 1963 – you can access them all here. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

The ‘student experience’ has become a stick to beat academics with, instead of the carrot that motivates them. Undergraduate fees were trebled, to deliver most tuition income via students rather than a funding agency. There was much political talk of ‘low quality courses’; the Teaching Excellence Framework rose and fell.

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Rethinking the Future of the Humanities

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? At the same time, readership of academic critics and of literature itself has plummeted. Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way.