HEPI

APRIL 28, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Emma Wakelin , Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the Royal College of Art. (X/Twitter: If done well, this new approach could incentivise a supportive and inclusive approach to research culture and research careers across the board.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson announced a donation to fund the Lt. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? Such a ‘culture’ will encompass ‘the behaviours, values, expectations, attitudes and norms’ of ‘research communities’, influence ‘researchers’ career paths and determine ‘the way that research is conducted and communicated’. Funding for them may be uncertain.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act. Which is exactly what I did last year.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University announced this month that the two institutions received funding to begin research into how psychedelics have influenced art, literature and society. Read more from CBS News.

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Liaison International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Columbus Day had come to symbolize the colonization, oppression, and violence inflicted upon Indigenous communities, and these activists and their allies began advocating for a day that would acknowledge the pre-existing Indigenous cultures and their achievements. The post Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023 appeared first on Liaison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 21, 2023

Dartmouth College has launched the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life (IBICL), a research center focused on the study of the Black diaspora. The Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College is not designed to exclude," said Delalue. The institute is being launched with initial funding of $2.3

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

We invited further comments on the proposal to expand the People, Culture and Environment (PCE) element of the exercise. There will also be a survey gathering input from across the sector on the development of people, culture and environment indicators. We have recently published our revised timetable.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Since its launch in late 2022, the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester (UR) has worked to advance conversations surrounding Black and African culture and identity through an interdisciplinary, global lens. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. and Mary L.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Laughable, too, that his contemporary James Baldwin (1924-1987) analysed love in its full range of possibilities, including erotic, platonic and familial, as well as relating to racial justice and the arts. I called this ‘artful leadership’, where artists catalyse change beyond the remit of art and design.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. All of the involved institutions are HSIs.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Additionally, he’s secured funding from the U.S. Hamilton College President Steven Tepper (Source: Hamilton College) Hamilton College has found an eclectic new leader in Steven Tepper, the current dean and director of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University (ASU).

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. The funding will allow Wayne State to recruit 10 new early-career scholars in the humanities for its Pathway to Faculty program, an initiative that guides and prepares pre-faculty fellows for tenure-track positions. The Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

The discussions led a year later to a plan to revitalize the city using $200 million in private and public funds. Schupf Art Center last month, an $18 million project developed in partnership with Waterville Creates , a nonprofit organization that promotes accessible arts and cultural programs, according to a news release from the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. Medical humanities recenters health in a broader social, cultural, and historical context, using humanities and social sciences methods to analyze the contexts of illness and health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Dr. Phillip Brian Harper In Spring 2022, the foundation had invited proposals from institutions – accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting U.S. Mellon Foundation pledged more than $12 million to 26 U.S. colleges and universities working on social justice-related research or curricular projects.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy. The liberal arts isn’t limited to the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Marymount University, in Virginia, is planning to cut many of its liberal arts programs, citing low enrollments, ARLnow reported. Funds saved would be allocated to support more popular majors. There is strong opposition to the plans. Alumni started a petition against the cuts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. Dabney’s interest in Japan spans his entire life.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 24, 2023

On Thursday, the New College of Florida Board of Trustees voted to seek $2 million from the state legislature for the Freedom Institute, a center to counter “cancel culture” in higher education. The proposal is the latest in a slew of changes at the small liberal arts college in Sarasota, which has been at the center of Republican Gov.

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HEPI

MARCH 21, 2024

This new paper looks at the impact of the current funding landscape on the – quality of taught provision in higher education. The urgent need for long-term funding solutions for higher education across the UK has been the topic of much discussion in recent months between providers and policymakers and in the press.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

It felt … connective, hopeful, powerful,” says Megan Davis, U of I Art + Design program student and graduate research assistant. “A Final products will include a published book, a digital art exhibit, essays and other writings, and visual artwork.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

“Cuts of the scale being threatened at universities including Goldsmiths, Lincoln and Sheffield Hallam will devastate local economies and cause long-term harm to key British industries like the creative arts. Nearly 30% of Fleming’s students are international.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 31, 2023

No funding, and that will wither on the vine,” DeSantis said during a press conference. The announcement is the latest in DeSantis’ efforts to lead an academic culture war in the state. “We are also going to eliminate all DEI and [critical race theory] bureaucracies in the state of Florida.

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HEPI

MAY 6, 2024

In March, we heard from the Executive Chair of Research England , Dame Professor Jessica Corner; and last week, we published this piece on small and specialist institutions from Emma Wakelin, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the Royal College of Art.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

pandemic recovery funding. “Until then, the only real influx of international students came from privileged backgrounds, who came to study Italian art, language and culture,” he said. million) in public funding, the Hotel Riviera is now university property and set for a total revamp into a hall of residence.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

College officials removed her work and those of other artists from the lineup, citing Idaho’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act, which “prohibits the use of public funds for abortion, including speech that would ‘promote abortion’ or ‘counsel in favor of abortion.’”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

I—and my colleagues—would argue that what we teach is not just the vocabulary or rules of a particular language, but the tools of intellectual humility and cultural exchange. However, in a world in which cultural exchange is urgently needed, we need to turn a critical lens on the values we enact as educators.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1997, Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture , published a blistering critique of the impact of identity politics on the museum world. A recent book by Daniel H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

Those efforts may begin inside Fisk's classrooms but stretch far beyond the campus and its environs to business and industry, the arts and humanities, as well as politics and the public square. The equivalent to more than $990,000 today, his widow and family allocated those funds to construct the Fisk chapel.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

But many decisions made by Australian governments over the last decade – from assuming support and the choice to purchase nuclear powered submarines as part of the AUKUS deal – have demonstrated Australia’s failure to understand (or preparedness to ignore) the cultures and politics of what are now independent Pacific Island nations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Nine other works are currently in development and represent a broad disciplinary range: Africana studies, American studies, archaeology and the ancient world, ethnic studies, history, history of art and architecture, Italian studies, literary arts, and performance studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It's culturally placed for people. Historically, in the realm of scientific literature and research, government funding around the substance was mostly given to look at the plant’s potential negative consequences, she said. Roanoke College is a small liberal arts school in the middle of a very red part of the state.

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#Deaning

MARCH 27, 2023

link] ◾ In hiring news, we are excited to welcome Ann Vandergust to the College of Arts! She is delighted to be (re)joining the College of Arts and sends her regards as she is looking forward to meeting you all – both old friends (Hi Matthew et al.!) Ann will be joining us as the Manager, Facilities and Operations. and new colleagues.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

Today we showcase Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign. Artist and Art Instructor Nate Wilson discusses the inspiration for the redesign, the partnership between course instructor, instructional design team, and an Elder from one of the Native American tribes in the area.

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