University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough? New tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

“It’s spring break,” Mity Myhr, professor of history and associate dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at St. Edward’s University, said last week when asked whether faculty members at the private nonprofit Texas institution were discussing the even more sophisticated AI tool.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: A new report from the American Council on Education highlights the dampening effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on internationalization efforts in higher education—while underscoring institutions’ optimistic outlook for future growth.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976. percent from the previous year and about 18.4

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

Image: When Andrea Mora enrolled at University of California, Irvine, in 2012, she was a low-income, first-generation student. She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales, education is a lifelong calling. Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. The rest is history. A passion for education Dr. Steven R. I just really like being around students, especially the extracurricular part of education.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

A new book, The Latinx Guide to Graduate School ( Duke University Press ), by Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. The message to readers is that our collective histories, values and ways of engaging in community can be our sources of strength as scholars. What should college administrators do to dismantle them?

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I also made a point of calling out the role of faculty in traditional universities as critical actors in the ecosystem. The opposition was clearly and vehemently articulated by the chair of the system-wide University Faculty Senate: Sandi E. At many universities, faculty decide what transfers. What should be eliminated?

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FIRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

3, 2022 — Two down, one to go in a trio of lawsuits against the Texas college that just can’t resist firing professors for exercising their First Amendment rights. FIRE filed two other lawsuits against Collin College. Under the court judgment, Collin College agreed to pay more than $70,000 in damages plus attorneys’ fees. .

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Only 52% said the Supreme Court’s decision was justified, and they were evenly split on whether it was a good thing for higher education as a whole. “The ruling, which the public views favorably and aligns with prior views on using race as a factor in college admissions, is now settled law.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 23, 2023

” It was initially created with the blessing of college administrators to host events and programs after several professors raised concerns that the campus had a liberal bent, said Matthew Garrett, a professor of history and a founder of the institute. They would not be fair with me.’”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Image: Ellen Vitetta, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Scheryle Simmons Patigian Distinguished Chair in Cancer Immunobiology at the University of Texas’s Southwestern Medical Center, worked for decades to make her institution more welcoming to women. But her relationship with Russell became untenable after that, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

College administrators and faculty have to be much more aggressive in reclaiming the importance of a liberal education, particularly in the wake of sweeping legislative efforts in some states to restrict academic freedom and to outlaw the teaching of some subjects. We need to start controlling the narrative.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Daniel Carter, a campus safety consultant who reviewed a copy of the Education Department’s preliminary report on Liberty University’s (Va.) I cannot think of a single other comparable case in the entire 32-year history of the Clery Act.” campus safety compliance, obtained by The Washington Post. “I

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Image: Over the last five years, most of the Confucius Institutes hosted at American colleges and universities have closed down—but now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines a process for their potential return. higher education and the U.S. Whether U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Given the importance that parents, students, college administrators, and graduate and professional schools attach to grades, the authors describe a number of options that they regard as fairer. The purpose of feedback is to educate, not to critique. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Image: As an undergraduate at Christopher Newport University in Virginia almost two decades ago, Kristina Canfield felt helpless. Worst of all, Canfield said, was that the university wasn’t equipped to help her navigate those obstacles. But Canfield said she knew students in recovery needed—and deserved—more.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

In Florida and Texas, 2023 has brought a wave of proposed policies, leadership firings and new appointments, and political maneuverings designed to stifle DEI initiatives and closely related higher education offices. Some [Texas] universities have tremendous numbers of Hispanic and Black students as part of their populations.

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