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ASHE Conference Urges Humanization of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

LAS VEGAS-- Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles opened the 47th annual conference for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Las Vegas with a call to disrupt the systemic oppression keeping marginalized populations from accessing higher education and burning out academics working toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion. “If

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UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

The Guardian - Higher Education

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.

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Grinnell College to Launch African Diaspora Studies Department

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Grinnell College is launching a Department of African Diaspora Studies. The department will be led by a senior-level endowed chair who will design the curriculum and major. Black studies is not just about the past or history — it also provides us with so many paths forward toward more equitable community building.”

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Economics professor: Higher education has adapted slowest to AI

University Business

Higher education has adapted slowest to artificial intelligence (AI), according to Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University. We stand at a very unusual moment in human history,” Cowen said. The post Economics professor: Higher education has adapted slowest to AI appeared first on University Business.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.

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The Return of Bad Arguments for the Humanities

HESA

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”). “Is

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In Retreat: Why the Study of Military History Remains Essential

Inside Higher Ed

Yet despite this fraught reality, military history as an academic discipline is in steep decline, apparently out of the fantasy that if we don’t teach about war, it will go away. “War,” Hanson begins, “accelerates and intensifies the human experience. Vann Woodward, wrote works of military history are long over.

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