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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

Also concerned that Allegheny violated its own tenure policies, as well as the American Association of University Professors’ widely followed tenure policies, Shi reached out to her campus AAUP chapter and the national association. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That is still pending.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

I’m specifically focused on federal policy; I want to help ensure that federal taxpayer dollars are being used effectively and efficiently and that students have at least minimally good outcomes to where they’re not worse off after they attend a federally funded institution or college program.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. I don’t think so. Apparently not.

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music. Institutional change won’t require us to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. Policies and Practices. coherent, integrated curricular pathways.

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Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 190 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

This policy shift, while intended to provide structured oversight, may inadvertently place additional burdens on these institutions. They were very strong in the sciences, extremely strong in mathematics with the Curran Institute but didn’t have an engineering program. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences.