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The entrepreneurial university by design: a reflection on recent reporting and guidance

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This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Robert Crammond, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). Entrepreneurship is represented by stand-alone (short) courses and even as a category within annual higher education awards. Entrepreneurship and universities. Policy, practice, purpose. The UK scene.

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Internationalizing Black American History

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Today , over 10 percent of African Americans were born outside the United States and over a fifth (21 percent) are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Woodson, insisted that the history of Black Americans and indeed of the United States must be viewed in global, comparative, and diasporic terms.

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Assessing individual research performance

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We are not alone, and we are not the first to recognise this problem or to try to find a solution. In some occupations, the parameters for such review are relatively easy to derive. These ideas have been naïvely imported into academia where individual performance, especially regarding research, is assessed by means of volume and metrics.

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Can College Heal a Fractured, Unequal Nation?

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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There’s an arresting scene in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels that strikes a familiar chord, even though the book is nearing its 300 th anniversary. Next, Gulliver visits Balnibarbi, a kingdom that the inhabitants of Laputa, those wise men, literally lord over.

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