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Harvard will remove binding made of human skin from 1800s book

The Guardian - Higher Education

University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place.

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AAC&U Awards Frederic W. Ness Book Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ness Book Award from The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The annual award is given to a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Published by Harvard University Press, the book discusses practices of U.S. Dr. Jarvis R.

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The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

HEPI

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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How To Be Conspicuously Human in the Online Classroom 

Faculty Focus

In “Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change,” Dr. Leo S. Could AI diminish or wholly supplant the role of teachers in online education? It’s about humans being human in the classroom, doing the complex, emotional, and messy labor that (as of right now) only we can do.

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How To Be Conspicuously Human in the Online Classroom 

Faculty Focus

In “Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change,” Dr. Leo S. Could AI diminish or wholly supplant the role of teachers in online education? It’s about humans being human in the classroom, doing the complex, emotional, and messy labor that (as of right now) only we can do.

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Author discusses her new book on grant-writing

Inside Higher Ed

Lai, an associate professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development of Boston College. She responded to questions about the book via email. In my book, I use ikigai as a framework for generating grant ideas. That’s why I focus in the book on how to discern these values. Q: What is ikigai ?

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What We Can Learn From Ancient History (and What We Can't)

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity's origins. By Jacob Mikanowski Justin Renteria for The Chronicle Two new books take very different approaches to the study of humanity's origins.

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