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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons busily prepared to deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. It was the latest on a long list of accomplishments in Simmons’ career as one of the nation’s most prominent Black women in higher education.

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AAC&U Annual Meeting Explore Liberal Education’s Role in Preserving Democracy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.)

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

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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NCAA Inclusion Forum Focuses on DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edwards said that activism grounded in athlete protest, has a long and storied history in the United States, dating back to the civil rights movement and continuing through today. So yes, that level of concern, I think, is warranted.”

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Report proposes waiver criteria for Confucius Institutes

Inside Higher Ed

Institutions of Higher Education, made up of college administrators and professors, wrote the study. higher education and the U.S. colleges and universities among the finest in the world,” the report says. higher education and the U.S. The Committee on Confucius Institutes at U.S.

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A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

We wanted the book to speak to Latinx students in multiple contexts and from various places, across disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. The message to readers is that our collective histories, values and ways of engaging in community can be our sources of strength as scholars.