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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Somehow, I came across a post on the Conversable Economist blog, which, as a chemist, is not on my reading list. But who is Thomas Schelling and why should I—we—care? Aumann for “having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. ” An impossibility theorem, indeed!

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Lessons the Pandemic Taught Us

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer It has become a common refrain: the COVID-19 pandemic heightened disparities that were already present in American education. They experienced a decline of over 11 percent, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. Neotraditional students tend to be older than 25 years of age.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. Or are concerns publicized by a sensationalist press overblown, consisting of relatively isolated issues that are far less general than we think? Let’s go through a number of the key sources of concern one by one. Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission.

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The Politics of Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Political interference in higher education, we are told , is increasing. The partisan divide in views on higher education, we hear , is deepening. The college-going market had not yet been nationalized, let alone nearly universalized. Campuses “ are driving political division.”

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

Stern, an associate professor of economics, said Friday, “I was very pleased with the outcome of the trial, and I believe strongly in our jury system. He said he looks “forward to working with Auburn University, charting a new and positive path toward achieving our educational mission.”

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? students as they did. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be mentors and “transformers.”

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The Next Iterations of Disruptive Innovation

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. I’m talking about a new forms of educational disruption that have their gun sights set on those non-traditional students who are looking for “ a path to a career rather than a four-year pit stop. I’m not referring to the Beta, Delta, or Omicron BA 1, BA4, and B5 COVID strains.